Storage, warehousing and cross-docking are available in every city we serve, and multi-city projects are coordinated through a single planner.
Storage, warehousing and cross-docking are available in every city we serve, and multi-city projects are coordinated through a single planner.
This is the B2B side of the business: freight that arrives on a trailer or in a container, gets counted, and either moves straight back out or waits in a controlled location until a release date.
Commercial warehousing answers a different question than consumer storage. The question is not where your things go while you move — it is what arrived, in what condition, where it is now, and what leaves on Thursday. That is an inventory problem before it is a space problem, which is why the record matters as much as the square footage.
Next Movement runs project-based and move-related warehousing rather than high-volume e-commerce fulfilment. That focus is deliberate: sequencing, documentation and communication stay at the centre of the service, which is what a freight operator, a project manager or an FF&E buyer actually needs from a warehouse.
Work arrives in two broad shapes. Some of it dwells — pallets and project inventory that need a location and a release plan. Some of it does not — freight that comes off one truck, is sorted or reorganised, and goes back out on another. Both are handled here, and the intake question that decides which is simply how long the goods need to stay.
Five service categories, and most commercial scopes use more than one. The receiving is the same either way; what changes is what happens after the count.
Inbound freight is taken off the equipment, counted and documented against the paperwork before it becomes inventory.
Goods that need to dwell get a location, a record and a release plan rather than a corner of the floor.
Inbound freight can be unloaded, sorted or reorganised where required, and transferred to outbound transportation without requiring long-term storage.
Inventory held off the job site until the site is ready for it, then released in the order the site needs it.
The handling that turns a mixed inbound load into something the next leg can actually accept.
The sequence is short by design. Freight is on the dock rather than in a location, so every step is about keeping it moving without losing the count.
The trailer or container arrives against a scheduled window and a shipment reference, so the dock knows what is on the equipment before the doors open.
Freight is unloaded with the equipment and crew appropriate to how it is loaded — palletized freight and floor-loaded freight are not the same job, and the difference is priced at quote rather than discovered at the dock.
Pieces or pallets are counted against the manifest, references are confirmed, and visible condition is documented where it applies. Sorting happens here, against the outbound plan rather than the inbound one.
Several inbound shipments are combined into one outbound load, or one inbound load is broken into the deliveries it needs to become. This is the step that makes cross-docking worth doing.
Freight is staged by outbound load, lane or delivery so that loading is a sequence rather than a search. Value-added handling — palletizing, wrapping, labeling — is done at this point if the outbound leg requires it.
The outbound equipment is loaded in delivery order where that matters, with the load prepared for the leg it is actually about to take.
The transfer is documented and released, with discrepancies recorded rather than absorbed. What you get back is a record of what arrived and what left, not just a confirmation that something happened.
Specific handling depends on scope. How freight is loaded, what has to be sorted, whether it is consolidated, and what the outbound leg requires all change the crew, the equipment and the time — which is why cross-dock work is quoted against the actual movement rather than a published per-pallet rate.
What is recorded when freight comes off the equipment, and what happens when the count or the condition does not match the paperwork.
Receiving is where a warehouse either creates a usable record or creates a future argument. The controls below exist so that a shortage found three weeks later can be traced back to the moment the freight was unloaded, rather than debated between a supplier, a carrier and a project team who all remember it differently.
OS&D — overage, shortage and damage — is the standard shorthand for the three ways a receipt can disagree with its documentation. Each is handled as an exception attached to the inventory record, which is what makes it recoverable later.
This is the general commercial receiving standard. FF&E programs often need more than this — enhanced open-box quality control, room and article-level allocation, and a deeper OS&D workflow tied to supplier claims.
Overage — more received than documented, recorded rather than quietly absorbed into stock
Shortage — fewer received than documented, recorded against the line it belongs to
Damage — visible damage documented with notes and photographs at receipt
Hold — affected stock flagged so it is not picked or shipped by mistake
Escalation — the exception raised to your team with the record attached, so the claim or replacement can be actioned
Commercial buyers with freight, inventory or a project schedule to protect. If the goods belong to a household move, the storage service is the better fit.
Carriers who need a dock and a crew in this market without opening a terminal in it.
Operators who need capacity or hands in a market where their own footprint is short.
Businesses moving fixtures, furniture and stock against an opening date rather than a fulfilment SLA.
Project teams whose material arrives on the supplier schedule, not the site schedule.
Hotel, residence and design programs where receiving quality decides how the installation goes.
Both services store goods. They are built for different buyers, and picking the wrong one usually means the quote answers a question you did not ask.
Choose this when the goods are commercial freight or project inventory.
Choose this when the goods belong to a move.
If you are somewhere between the two — a commercial relocation where furniture also has to be received and staged — start with either page. The intake question that resolves it is what the goods are and where they came from.
Most commercial scopes are handled inside existing warehousing. For programs that need substantial dedicated contiguous space, capacity can instead be planned and secured around the actual project requirement.
A warehouse address is not the same thing as available project capacity. A permanent facility may already be substantially occupied, and residual space is defined by what is left over rather than by what your project needs. For a large program that distinction is the whole problem: contiguous footprint, dock access and a predictable term matter more than the name on the building.
So for major projects there is a second model. Rather than fitting the project into whatever space happens to be free, the requirement is sized first, facility requirements are written from it, and capacity is identified and secured against those requirements for the project term. That is planning work done before the first trailer is booked, and it is what makes a large inbound schedule survivable.
This is an additional model, not a replacement. Pallet storage, overflow and shorter commercial scopes continue to run inside existing warehousing, and most requests never need the longer path.
For major projects, capacity can be planned around the project rather than forcing the project into whatever residual space happens to be available.
Facility characteristics — security, fire protection, equipment, access and insurance conditions — are confirmed for the facility actually selected and recorded in the project documentation, rather than claimed generically ahead of that selection.
The sequence a project runs through before inbound freight is directed to a facility. Smaller commercial scopes use the same controls in a shorter form.
Volume, footprint, term, inbound and outbound schedules, handling and equipment needs are established from your project data rather than estimated from a description.
Those requirements become a sized capacity plan: how much space, for how long, with what inbound intensity and what outbound pattern.
Space is identified against the written requirements in the relevant market — dock and access configuration, equipment, staging, operating hours, and the security, fire and insurance conditions applicable to the project.
The physical layout is prepared to match the plan: receiving zone, inspection and hold area, storage locations, staging and outbound lanes, with dock scheduling and material-handling equipment confirmed against the inbound schedule.
The project is created and configured before receiving begins: inventory structure, receiving references, location structure, exception and hold handling, and staging and outbound conventions.
Only once readiness is complete is inbound freight authorized to the facility, with receiving windows, shipment references and escalation contacts confirmed with the vendor, forwarder or carrier.
Received goods either go to a location with a release plan, or stay on the dock for transfer. The decision is made per shipment, not per account.
Stock is picked, staged and released against the outbound schedule, with the release documented against the same inventory record the receiving team created.
Where requested and commercially appropriate, a selected project facility can be reviewed by your team, and a visit can be arranged by appointment subject to project, facility and security requirements. Facility access is not unrestricted.
WarePulse is Next Movement’s own warehouse and inventory management platform. It is the system the warehouse actually runs on, and it is what gives a commercial client visibility into its own freight.
The difference between a warehouse and a room full of pallets is the record. WarePulse is where receiving, inventory, locations, exceptions, picking and shipping are worked, so the answer to "where is it" comes from the system rather than from somebody walking the floor.
Because receiving and outbound run against the same record, a discrepancy found at the dock is still attached to the stock weeks later when a claim is being prepared. That continuity is the operational argument for running a warehouse on software rather than on spreadsheets and memory.
The receipts workspace where inbound purchase orders and dock activity are worked, so a trailer or container is reconciled against its documentation as it is unloaded.
Receiving captured in the warehouse app at the point of unload, which is how quantities and references reach the inventory record without a second transcription step.
Damage reporting with notes and photo evidence, which is how an OS&D exception gets attached to the stock at the moment it is found rather than in an email afterwards.
The operator inventory screen with stock controls and visible balances, used to confirm what is on hand, where it is located and what is already allocated.
Pick execution with active line progress, used when a load, a zone or a delivery wave is being pulled against an outbound schedule.
The customer inventory portal showing stock, allocation and available units — the surface a commercial client can be given access to rather than the internal console.
Storage, warehousing and cross-docking are available in every city we serve, and multi-city projects are coordinated through a single planner with unified reporting.
Montreal is the primary market for commercial warehousing and cross-dock work, and it is where most receiving, pallet storage and freight-transfer requests are handled. The rest of the served markets are covered through the same planning desk and the same inventory platform.
Available warehouse space is not identical in every market at every moment, and it would not be honest to imply otherwise — capacity is a live commercial position rather than a fixed claim. What is consistent everywhere is the coordination: one planner, one set of records, and one point of contact for a project that touches more than one city.
For substantial B2B or project requirements, regional and project-specific capacity can be coordinated based on the scope, using the same capacity planning approach described above. That is the right conversation to start early, because sourcing space against real requirements takes longer than booking a dock.
Warehouse capacity in a given market at a given time is confirmed against the actual requirement during quoting rather than assumed from the coverage list.
There is no published per-pallet or per-cross-dock rate, because the same pallet costs a different amount to handle depending on how it arrives, how long it stays and what has to happen to it.
Commercial warehousing and cross-dock pricing is quoted against the scope. Two shipments of identical size can differ by an order of magnitude in handling: one arrives palletized and leaves on the next truck, the other arrives floor-loaded, has to be sorted, palletized, wrapped, labeled and held for six weeks before a sequenced release. Publishing a single number for both would be misleading rather than helpful.
What that means practically is that a quote needs a scope. The intake form below asks for the handful of variables that actually move the number, and most of them are things you already know: how much, how it arrives, how long it stays and how it leaves.
A published per-square-foot baseline exists for defined hotel FF&E project warehousing and is stated on the FF&E page in that context. It is specific to those defined FF&E project scopes and is not a general commercial warehousing or cross-docking rate.
Warehouse work rarely arrives alone. These are the services most commonly quoted alongside it.
The freight has to get here
Line-haul and commercial freight with scheduled appointments and documented handoffs, feeding the same dock the warehousing runs on.
See freight servicesIt is a hotel or design program
Receiving with enhanced quality control, room-level allocation, project warehousing and sequenced white-glove installation for FF&E programs.
Explore FF&E project logisticsThe goods belong to a move
Moving and storage booked together, with photographed inventory, a signed custody handoff and one-tap redelivery when the destination is ready.
See storage servicesAn office or site is relocating
Office and commercial relocation planned around building access, phased timelines and the crews doing the work on site.
See commercial movingSomething needs special handling
Items whose handling requirements go beyond standard freight — the exception path when a shipment includes something that cannot be treated as a pallet.
See specialty servicesIf a scope spans several of these, one planner coordinates it rather than handing you between service desks.
The questions commercial buyers ask before sending a scope, answered against what the operation actually does.
Cross-docking moves freight from inbound transportation to outbound transportation with little or no long-term storage. Goods are unloaded, verified, sorted or reorganised where required, staged by outbound load and reloaded, rather than being put away into a storage location and picked later.
Yes. Montreal is the primary market for commercial warehousing and cross-dock work, covering receiving, pallet and project storage, staging and freight transfer. Storage, warehousing and cross-docking are available in every city we serve, with multi-city projects coordinated through a single planner.
Yes. Palletized freight is received, counted and reconciled against the manifest or purchase order, with visible condition documented where applicable, and then either stored in a location or staged for outbound depending on the scope.
Yes. Trailers, containers and straight trucks are received, and both palletized and floor-loaded freight are unloaded. How the freight is loaded changes the crew, the equipment and the time, so it is one of the details a quote asks for up front.
Yes — that is the point of the service. Inbound freight can be unloaded, verified, sorted, consolidated or deconsolidated, staged and transferred to outbound transportation without entering long-term storage.
Yes. Project inventory can be received, held against a project record and released in the sequence the site needs, which is the standard model for construction, renovation, commercial fit-out and FF&E programs where material arrives before the site is ready.
Yes, subject to available capacity at the time. Overflow is typically a shorter-term arrangement covering a capacity gap in your own space or network, and it is quoted against volume, duration and handling like any other commercial scope.
Yes. Palletizing, shrink-wrapping, strapping, labeling, sorting and load preparation are supported as value-added handling, and they are usually what makes a mixed inbound load acceptable to the next leg of transport.
Yes. Staging against an outbound schedule is a core part of the service — stock is picked and staged by load, floor, zone or phase so that delivery day is an execution rather than a search.
Yes, and FF&E is a separate service because those programs need more than general commercial receiving: enhanced open-box quality control, room and article-level allocation, sequenced delivery and a deeper OS&D workflow tied to supplier claims.
Yes. Warehouse work runs on WarePulse, Next Movement’s own warehouse and inventory management platform, which holds receiving records, inventory quantities, locations, holds, exceptions, task workflows, picking and shipping.
WarePulse is Next Movement’s warehouse and inventory management platform. It is the system the warehouse actually operates on rather than a reporting layer added on top, which is why a discrepancy recorded at the dock is still attached to the stock weeks later when a claim is prepared.
Yes. Client-side inventory visibility is supported, showing stock, allocation and available units through a customer-facing portal rather than the internal operator console. What a given account is given access to is set up as part of project configuration.
For major projects, capacity can be planned around the project rather than forcing the project into whatever residual space happens to be available. The requirement is sized first, facility requirements are written from it, and capacity is identified and secured against those requirements for the project term.
Where requested and commercially appropriate, a selected project facility can be reviewed by your team, and a visit can be arranged by appointment subject to project, facility and security requirements. Access is by appointment and is not unrestricted.
Against the scope, not a published per-pallet rate. Volume, footprint, duration, inbound and outbound handling, pallet count, equipment, labour, market, facility, access and any value-added services all move the number, which is why a quote asks for the scope before it gives a figure.
How much is coming and in what form (pallets, containers, trailers, approximate square footage), whether it is storage or cross-dock, when it arrives, how long it stays, how often it leaves, what handling it needs, and which market. Anything you do not know yet can be left open — the quote is refined as the scope firms up.
Warehousing and cross-dock intake
Volume, timing and handling are what decide the number. Only your name, email and a description of the scope are required — leave the rest blank if you do not know it yet.
Volume, how it arrives, how long it stays and how it leaves. That is usually enough to price receiving, warehousing or a cross-dock transfer without a site visit.
