Custom-printed mailers, specialty packaging, jan-san for the warehouse, PPE for the fulfillment crew, light MRO, branded shipping consumables. One quote across categories. Ship to your fulfillment center. No procurement bureaucracy. Built for Shopify / TikTok Shop / Amazon FBA brands at $1-25M revenue.
A growing e-commerce brand at $1-25M revenue running its own fulfillment center burns founder time on operational supply procurement. Uline for stocked boxes. A custom-print shop for branded mailers. Amazon Business for jan-san. Costco runs for breakroom. Best Buy for that one printer toner. Most operators do not have a procurement person; the ops lead or the founder is running point.
You are not big enough for direct manufacturer contracts (Pratt / Smurfit / Sealed Air won't talk to you until you do truckload volume). You are too big for Costco runs to make sense. The middle is where multi-vendor friction lives, and most brands stay in it for years because switching costs feel real.
Specifying custom-printed mailers, branded tissue, custom-printed boxes requires 2-4 week first-run lead times. Most operators discover this when they realize they need new packaging the week before a launch. Then they ship in blank boxes and lose the branded-unboxing experience that justified the custom-print decision.
September monthly order: 8 cases of mailers. October: 14 cases. November: 28 cases. December: 12 cases. Standing PO at constant volume is wrong for 4 months of the year, and most distributors are not staffed to handle the spike. Stockouts in November cost real revenue.
Founder optimizes packaging because shipping margin is visible. Jan-san for the warehouse, safety / PPE for the picking crew, light MRO, office for the back-office, IT consumables all get bought ad-hoc on Amazon Business at retail markup. Aggregate is real money: $30-80K / year on a $5M brand.
Email, paste a CSV, upload your ERP export, send a photo of your shelf labels. We work from any of it. No login, no portal, no procurement bureaucracy. Founder or ops lead emails directly.
15 minutes for typical small-to-medium orders during business hours. Quote covers all categories: packaging, jan-san, safety, light MRO, office, custom-printed where applicable. Substitutions flagged at the line level.
First order on credit card with no credit review required: you can place the order in minutes. Once you are a repeat customer, net-30 available after a 3-7 day credit review. No commitment to either path.
Direct delivery from supplier DC to your fulfillment center. if you want (so your team does not see the underlying supplier relationship). Multi-site routing if you have 2+ fulfillment locations.
Stock + custom across the categories. Bundled into one quote so you stop running 3-5 vendors.
Stock corrugated boxes (singlewall, doublewall, FSC certified), poly mailers (white, kraft, courier), bubble mailers, rigid mailers, stretch film, void fill, kraft paper, packing peanuts, bubble wrap, packing tape. Tape Logic, 3M, Inteplast, Pregis, Sealed Air.
Custom-printed poly mailers, custom-printed corrugated boxes, branded tissue paper, custom-printed tape, branded thank-you cards, custom-printed kraft mailers. Flexographic 1-4 color, digital print for short runs. 2-4 week first-run lead, faster on repeat.
ESD / static-dissipative bags + foam (electronics), food-grade poly + deli paper (consumables), hazmat-compliant UN-certified packaging (chemical, lithium batteries, paint), cold-chain shippers (biotech, food), reusable returnable packaging (for circular-economy brands).
Floor cleaning chemicals, brooms, mops, dust pans, paper towels, hand soap, sanitizer dispensers, can liners, restroom supply for the team restroom, ice melt for winter. Standard jan-san program scaled to fulfillment center.
Cut-resistant gloves (ANSI A1-A5 for box cutting), safety glasses, hi-vis vests, steel-toe boots (employer-supplied), first-aid cabinets (ANSI Z308.1), AED supplies, ergonomic mats for picking stations, dust masks, hearing protection if warranted.
Replacement LED bulbs, HVAC filters, basic hand tools, fasteners, label printer consumables (DYMO, Zebra), thermal labels, conveyor belt parts for small ops, breakroom coffee, paper, toner. All the back-office items that don't fit your packaging contract.
Standing email order: 6 cases of mailers, 4 cases of tape, 8 boxes of poly bags, 2 cases of bubble. Plus warehouse jan-san + PPE quarterly. Standing PO at predictable cadence; quote auto-priced + auto-shipped on the agreed schedule.
New product line launching: custom-printed mailers, branded tissue, custom-printed tape, thank-you cards. 2-4 week first-run with print-ready PDF. Phased delivery against launch date.
September forecast lock with priority allocation. October-December burst supply through monthly standing PO + override on volume. Stockout protection through multi-supplier sourcing on commodity packaging.
Brand expanding from 1-2 fulfillment centers (typically east + west coast). Opening order: 200-400 line BOM across packaging, jan-san, safety, light MRO, office. Phased delivery against build-out timeline. Per-location ship-to with consolidated billing.
New SKU requiring ESD-safe packaging (electronics accessory) or food-grade packaging (consumable product) or hazmat compliance (chemical or lithium battery). One-off compliance-grade packaging order separate from commodity flow.
Brand moving fulfillment from a 3PL to in-house operations. New facility, new supply program. We help structure the supply categories, recommend SKU mix based on order volume + product mix, and set up standing replenishment.
Uline is great when you know exactly what stocked SKU you want and you want it tomorrow. Where we differ: multi-vendor sourcing in one quote (custom mailers + stock corrugated + jan-san in one quote, one invoice), file-format flexibility (Excel, photo, plain text), and bundling across categories Uline does not carry deep (specialty packaging, ESD, food-grade, hazmat). For commodity stocked items where Uline excels, Uline often wins.
Keep it. If you have a direct contract with Pratt / Smurfit / Sealed Air at truckload pricing, we work alongside, not against. We cover what your packaging contract doesn't: custom-printed, specialty, jan-san, safety, light MRO, office. Most e-commerce customers use us for 30-50% of operational supply, not 100%.
Yes. Custom-printed poly mailers (1-4 color flexo, or digital for short runs), branded tissue, custom-printed tape + thank-you cards + kraft mailers + corrugated boxes. 2-4 week first-run lead, faster on repeat.
Yes. Standing PO + override mechanism so Q3 / Q4 burst routes separate from monthly cadence. September forecast lock gets you priority allocation when Oct-Nov demand spikes.
Yes. Static shielding bags, anti-static polybags, pink anti-static foam, ESD-safe corrugated, conductive containers, ground-strap kits.
Yes. UN-certified 4G fiberboard, 4GV combinations, hazmat labels + placards, lithium-battery-compliant packaging. Required for chemical, lithium battery, biological, paint shipping.
Credit card on first order = no credit review, place in minutes. Net-30 on subsequent orders after a 3-7 day credit review.
That is most of our e-commerce customers. Founder or ops lead emails quote@cintrasupply.com with a list (any format). We reply in minutes. You approve, we ship. No portal, no procurement bureaucracy.
Custom-printed launch. Q4 holiday burst. 2nd fulfillment opening. Monthly replenishment. Priced lines back in minutes.
