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A government supply chain partner invested in your mission

Cart.com's government program teams are supported by advisors with firsthand experience at the highest levels of federal supply chain and military medicine, working directly with agency program managers to keep capabilities aligned to mission requirements — from contract implementation through ongoing operations and surge response.

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A logistics partner that understands the stakes

Commercial 3PL relationships are often transactional: a vendor executes a contract and responds when called. That doesn't work for government supply chains, where logistics performance affects mission readiness, patient care, and emergency response capability. Cart.com's government customer success model is proactive, knowledgeable, and invested in your mission outcomes.

Supply chain pain points

Reactive management: agencies escalate before vendors respond
Limited understanding of compliance frameworks and risks
No strategic insight into cost savings or process improvements
No proactive communication about program-specific risks
Executive engagement only when something goes wrong

Cart.com’s solutions

Dedicated program managers who own the relationship end to end
Deep familiarity with FAR/DFARS, ITAR, and program standards
Ongoing cost and operations analysis, brought proactively
Structured onboarding with milestones and dedicated support
Executive involvement during launches, peaks, and key windows

Why Cart.com

Customer success built into every government engagement

Cart.com's government customer success program is not a support function — it is a core part of how we deliver logistics services to government clients. From day one through the full contract lifecycle, our program teams are actively working to ensure Cart.com's capabilities are optimally aligned to your mission requirements.

Dedicated Government Program Managers

One program manager owns your account end to end. No coordinating across multiple vendor contacts.

Proactive Performance Management

We track fulfillment accuracy, order cycle times, carrier performance, inventory levels, and compliance documentation before issues surface.

Compliance Expertise You Can Rely On

FAR GFP accountability. cGMP and GDP for pharmaceuticals. ITAR storage controls. DEA Schedule documentation. HAZMAT compliance. Agency-specific contract standards.

Mission-Aligned Executive Engagement

Our executives engage directly during implementation, mission-critical windows, and high-stakes operations.

What Cart.com government customer success looks like in practice

From contract implementation to ongoing program optimization to surge response, Cart.com's government customer success program is active throughout the full lifecycle of the agency engagement.

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Contract Implementation and Onboarding

Facility readiness, technology integration, compliance documentation, staff training, and operational dry runs before go-live.

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Ongoing Cost Optimization

Continuous analysis of freight spend, inventory positioning, and storage utilization, backed by AI-powered rate shopping.

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Compliance Monitoring and Documentation Support

GFP accountability records, pharmaceutical chain of custody, HAZMAT documentation, and RFID/UID tracking, plus regulatory reporting and reconciliations.

Performance Reviews and Strategic Planning

Structured reviews covering fulfillment performance, freight spend, compliance status, and forward-looking recommendations.

Surge and Emergency Response Support

Surge protocols that scale facility capacity, carrier networks, and staffing on accelerated timelines without dropping compliance.

Escalation Ownership and Resolution

Program managers own every issue from identification through root cause analysis and corrective action.

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Advisors who understand what government missions require

Major General Elder Granger, M.D. (U.S. Army, Retired): Former Deputy Director of TRICARE. 35+ years in military healthcare and supply chain.
Timothy W. Manning: Former White House COVID-19 Supply Chain Coordinator and FEMA Deputy Administrator.

Why Cart.com

The values behind Cart.com's government customer success

Cart.com's government customer success program is grounded in the same core values that define our broader operating culture — applied with the additional weight of understanding that government supply chains directly affect the people and missions they serve.

Mission obsession

Cart.com's government teams are obsessed with the missions of the agencies they serve — not just with contract performance metrics. Understanding why your supply chain matters, and who depends on it working correctly, is what drives our teams to go beyond the minimum and find ways to make your program better. Mission obsession is the difference between a vendor relationship and a true partnership.

Proactive communication

Government programs require a logistics partner that communicates clearly, directly, and proactively — not one that goes quiet until something breaks. Cart.com's program managers maintain active communication with agency counterparts, providing regular updates, flagging emerging issues early, and bringing cost and performance insights to the table without waiting to be asked. In government supply chain, the absence of communication is itself a risk — and Cart.com eliminates it.

Accountability without exception

Government contracts require a level of accountability that commercial relationships often don't demand — complete documentation, auditable records, and performance that can be defended to oversight authorities. Cart.com's program teams hold themselves to that standard in every aspect of program management, from FAR GFP records to transportation audit trails to compliance documentation. Accountability is not a burden we manage around; it is a standard we build into how we operate.

Committed through complexity

Government supply chains are complex, and that complexity doesn't diminish when missions are urgent or operational conditions are difficult. Cart.com's government program teams stay engaged and focused through compliance challenges, surge events, technology integrations, and the operational complexity that government programs regularly present. Commitment through complexity — not just when conditions are ideal — is what makes a logistics partner genuinely valuable to a government agency.

Fulfillment center locations across the country

Nationwide network of 18 fulfillment facilities with over 10M+ square feet of warehouse space. Strategic locations across the country enable the speed, scalability and flexibility brands need to thrive in today’s ecommerce market.

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Implementation and launch

Every government program starts with structured onboarding built around defined milestones. We prepare facilities, integrate with your technology and federal systems, and train staff before go-live. Compliance documentation is established up front, not added later.

We run operational dry runs to catch issues before they affect your mission. This gets programs live on schedule, with the right safeguards already in place. Your program manager owns this process from day one.

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Steady-state operations and optimization

Once a program is running, we don't stop looking for ways to improve it. We continuously analyze freight costs, inventory positioning, and storage utilization to find savings. Regular reviews of operational workflows surface inefficiencies before they become problems. Compliance documentation is audited on an ongoing basis, not just at contract milestones.

AI-powered analytics flag improvement opportunities that manual review would miss. The result is a program that gets more efficient over time, not one that just maintains the status quo.

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Surge, emergency response, and program change

Government supply chain programs are not static. They surge during emergencies, expand into new product categories, respond to policy changes, and periodically require significant operational restructuring. Cart.com's government customer success model is built to perform as well during change as it does during steady-state operations. When a public health emergency requires surge distribution, our program teams scale facility capacity and carrier relationships fast, while maintaining compliance documentation and chain-of-custody accountability under accelerated timelines.

When a program adds new product categories or delivery locations, our implementation team extends the program without disrupting existing operations. Advisor Timothy W. Manning's firsthand experience managing federal supply chain programs through these exact high-pressure change events shapes how we prepare for and respond to them.

Proven outcomes for apparel brands

Warehouse efficiency

Tripled efficiency across key workflows, speeding up returns handling.

Cart.com gives us detailed insight into how returns are processed, removing subjectivity. That saves a lot of unnecessary work for us.

Joe Gullo SVP, Supply Chain & Logistics, Thursday Boot Company

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Top 20 in Kids Multivitamin

Plus a spot on Amazon's Mother's Day gift list — within months of launch.

When you achieve that growth, maintaining inventory is the hardest part. The Amazon ecosystem is dependent on you maintaining inventory – and you’re penalized if you don’t. It’s critical to maintain inventory and scale our capacity, while maintaining quality, to meet the surging demand.

Cody Griffin Vice President of Strategy, First Day

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Months to a Sephora deal

Hanni landed an exclusive wholesale agreement with Sephora just 8 months post-launch, then outgrew their 3PL's capacity to keep up.

Our business grew very quickly, both our DTC and Wholesale. That became unmanageable for our previous 3PL.

Jennie Pan Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Hanni

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From hundreds of orders a month to thousands

Without losing the brand experience.

Cart.com’s proactiveness, organization structure, and human interaction is a true differentiator among competitors in the industry. It’s rare to find an external solutions provider that feels like internal staff, the Cart.com team is truly vested in our brand success.

Austin Blair Co-Founder, Laundry Sauce

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Warehouse efficiency

Tripled efficiency across key workflows, speeding up returns handling.

Cart.com gives us detailed insight into how returns are processed, removing subjectivity. That saves a lot of unnecessary work for us.

Joe Gullo SVP, Supply Chain & Logistics, Thursday Boot Company

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The people who make Cart.com's government partnerships work

Behind Cart.com's government supply chain platform is a team of people who understand government programs, mission requirements, and the stakes of logistics performance in public sector contexts.

Major General Elder Granger, M.D. — military healthcare advisor

Major General Elder Granger, M.D. (U.S. Army, Retired) brings more than 35 years of military medicine and healthcare administration experience to Cart.com's government advisory function. As former Deputy Director and Program Executive Officer of TRICARE Management Activity — the DoD's health plan for millions of military personnel, retirees, and their families — General Granger has direct experience managing the supply chain, technology, and administrative complexity of large-scale federal healthcare programs. His guidance shapes how Cart.com's government teams approach medical and pharmaceutical supply chain programs, and how Cart.com holds itself accountable to the standards of military healthcare operations.

Timothy W. Manning — emergency logistics and FEMA advisor

Timothy W. Manning served as White House COVID-19 Supply Chain Coordinator during the federal government's pandemic response — managing the logistics of vaccine distribution, PPE procurement, and emergency supply chain mobilization at national scale. As former FEMA Deputy Administrator, he has led federal responses to some of the most complex national emergency logistics events in recent decades. Manning's experience informs how Cart.com designs and maintains its emergency response logistics capabilities, and how Cart.com's government customer success teams prepare for and respond to the high-pressure operational events that government programs regularly face.

Dedicated government program management teams

Cart.com's government program managers are selected for their operational experience, government compliance knowledge, and genuine commitment to the agencies they serve. They are trained on the specific compliance frameworks, documentation requirements, and accountability standards of government contracts — not on commercial logistics account management practices applied to government clients. Every government program at Cart.com has a named, accountable program manager whose professional success is defined by the performance and mission alignment of the programs they oversee.

Operations staff who understand government standards

The fulfillment associates, inventory specialists, transportation coordinators, and compliance documentation staff who execute Cart.com's government programs are trained on the specific requirements of government supply chain operations — pharmaceutical handling protocols, GFP accountability procedures, HAZMAT documentation standards, UID tagging requirements, and the accuracy expectations that government contracts demand. Operational excellence in government programs is not achieved through management alone; it requires a full team that understands the standards their work must meet and why those standards exist.