GEODIS is a 122-year-old French logistics company with 150+ US warehouses, 99.5% two-day ground coverage, and a no-minimum eLogistics tier built for emerging DTC brands.
GEODIS pairs enterprise-scale contract logistics (Fortune 500 clients, 150M+ Americas orders a year, 99.5% two-day US reach) with an unusually merchant-friendly DTC tier called eLogistics — no order minimums, monthly contract, 30-day exit. Pricing is custom-quote on both tiers, and the public merchant review trail is thin. Best for brands ready for enterprise capabilities; less ideal if you want transparent published rates or a tight-knit account team.
eLogistics is unusually merchant-friendly for an enterprise 3PL: no order minimums, monthly term, 30-day exit for convenience, no setup or SKU fees. Brands that outgrow it can stay inside GEODIS for enterprise contract logistics without switching providers.
150+ US warehouses across 50M+ sq ft, processing ~150M Americas orders a year. The two-day ground coverage matches the deepest networks in the category and Brentwood, TN sits at the center of the US population gravity.
Freight forwarding in 170+ countries with 800+ trade and customs professionals, licensed US customs brokers, IRIS digital portal for air and ocean, DDP for cross-border ecommerce, and MyParcel gateways for postal injection. Stord and GXO don't match this scope.
AutoStore at Asheville, NC (320 robots, 92,000-bin grid, built for Maurices), Locus AMRs at Carlisle, PA where the deployment crossed 10 million picks in December 2024, and a KNAPP partnership for automated fulfillment. GEODIS Visibility ties WMS, TMS, LMS, and EDI data into one customer-facing control tower.
New consumer-facing returns portal with multilingual RMA generation (English, Spanish, Portuguese) plus a warehouse-side grading and disposition module with fraud detection. Native integrations to Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and Magento.
GEODIS publishes no rates. eLogistics line items (per cubic foot storage, per carton or polybag order rate, supplies, shipping) are public but the dollar figures aren't. Third-party aggregators put enterprise contracts at 12 to 36 months and roughly $100K+ per month, characterizations GEODIS itself doesn't confirm or deny.
Enterprise contract logistics customers get dedicated account teams, logistics engineers, and a 60 to 90 day GeoLaunch implementation. eLogistics brands get a SaaS dashboard and roughly five-day integration. Where you sit in the book of business shapes who answers when something goes sideways.
GEODIS closed multiple US facilities in 2025 (sites in NJ, OH, TN, TX, GA, NY) tied to lost contracts and a portfolio rationalization that predates the broader macro pullback. The remaining network is still large, but ask about your specific facility's contract pipeline during diligence.
One G2 review on the company profile, no active Shopify app rating (the listing is delisted), and effectively no merchant-side discussion in r/shopify, r/ecommerce, or r/3PL. The bulk of public GEODIS sentiment on Trustpilot is European end-consumer last-mile complaints, not US merchants, and shouldn't be read as a verdict on eLogistics service quality. The gap itself is the signal.
Laura Ritchey took the Americas CEO role from Mike Honious in July 2025. She came from Radial, a direct ecommerce-3PL competitor, so the playbook is likely shifting toward sharper ecommerce focus. New strategy means worth asking about her priorities and account-team continuity during sales conversations.
GEODIS is a French logistics company founded in 1904 as Calberson, now wholly owned by SNCF Group, the French state-backed rail operator. It posted €11.3 billion in revenue in 2024 with about 49,720 employees worldwide, of which roughly 20,537 sit in the Americas region. North American headquarters is in Brentwood, Tennessee, just outside Nashville.
The short version: GEODIS is one of the few enterprise 3PLs that built a real on-ramp for smaller DTC brands. The eLogistics tier, launched in September 2021, runs on a no-minimum, monthly contract with 30 days' notice to exit. Those terms are more typical of a SMB platform than a contract-logistics provider that also fulfills orders for L'Oréal and Adidas. Enterprise contract logistics still works the way enterprise contract logistics works: 12 to 36 month commitments, dedicated account teams, custom quotes.
As of 2026, the Americas business runs 150+ warehouses across 50M+ square feet, processes 150M+ orders annually, and reaches 99.5% of the continental US in two days of ground transit. Heavy concentrations sit in Tennessee, Texas, California, and the Northeast corridor. Beyond fulfillment, GEODIS operates a global freight forwarding network in 170+ countries with 800+ trade and customs professionals, licensed US customs brokers, and an air-and-ocean digital portal called IRIS.
Named ecommerce customers are easier to find by case study than by logo wall. Maurices runs its omnichannel fulfillment through the Asheville, NC AutoStore facility (320 robots, 92,000 storage bins, scalable to 250,000 units a day). L'Oréal and Adidas appear in industry coverage as long-running contract-logistics clients. Public GEODIS case studies cite an unnamed global footwear brand (99.8% order accuracy, 17,000 SKUs, 30,000 units/day peak), a leading online home goods retailer (4.9/5 service ratings across 20+ locations), and a furniture retailer that launched four new DCs in six months.
Recent context worth knowing: Laura Ritchey took the Americas President and CEO role in July 2025, replacing Mike Honious who retired after 20 years. Ritchey came from Radial, a direct ecommerce-fulfillment competitor, so an accelerated ecommerce push in the Americas is the obvious read. Separately, SNCF chairman Jean-Pierre Farandou said in a March 2026 National Assembly hearing that GEODIS is not for sale, addressing recurring CMA CGM acquisition rumors that have circulated in trade press. The Americas footprint also went through documented rationalization in 2025, with multiple facility closures tied to lost contracts, sitting alongside continued investment elsewhere in the network.
GEODIS does not publish dollar figures for either the eLogistics tier or enterprise contract logistics. The structure of the invoice is documented; the actual per-unit rates are quote-only on both sides of the product line.
eLogistics Tier Structure
The eLogistics pricing page lists four invoice line items: storage billed per cubic foot per day based on actual usage, an order rate billed per carton or polybag (this bundles a single-item pick, the shipping label, and outbound loading), a supplies fee that scales with cartons or polybags shipped, and shipping calculated per order by weight, dimensions, service level, and zone. Value-added services like kitting and custom packaging are priced separately.
What makes the eLogistics terms unusual at this scale: no order minimums, no SKU limits, no minimum storage fee, no upfront integration or setup fees, and a one-month initial term with monthly auto-renewal. Either party can terminate with 30 days' written notice for convenience. That's a rare set of terms from an enterprise 3PL. Most providers in GEODIS's tier won't talk to you below five-figure monthly volume, much less let you exit on 30 days.
Enterprise Contract Logistics Pricing
Enterprise contract logistics is a different conversation. The model is typically fixed-plus-variable: fixed facility and management fees layered with variable rates per pallet, per order line, or per labor hour. Performance-tied KPIs around on-time shipping, inventory accuracy, cost-per-order, and labor productivity often feed gain-share mechanisms. Implementation runs 60 to 90 days under GEODIS's GeoLaunch program.
Third-party 3PL matchmakers (Forthmatch, Fulfill.com) characterize GEODIS enterprise contracts as 12 to 36 month commitments with roughly $100K+ per month minimums. These numbers come from the marketplace side, not GEODIS, and are best read as a directional floor. Real numbers depend on facility, volume, services, and the negotiation.
Shipping and Carrier Rates
GEODIS aggregates volume discounts across a 25,000+ carrier portfolio with $2.5B+ in freight under management. The supported carrier list confirmed on their site includes UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, Canada Post, Canpar, DoorDash, GLS, LaserShip, LSO, OnTrac, and Purolator. Fuel surcharges update weekly against EIA diesel prices, so eLogistics shipping line items will move with the fuel index.
For context: ShipBob publishes a ~$275/month minimum and roughly $5 per-order starting rate. Stord runs a separate platform fee starting around $30K/year for Stord One on top of fulfillment charges. GEODIS publishes neither. At the eLogistics tier, technology is bundled into the operational fees rather than broken out as a SaaS line. That's friendlier on paper, but you can't comparison-shop it without a quote in hand.
Bottom line on pricing: the eLogistics structure is unusually merchant-friendly for the tier, and the 30-day exit clause is the kind of thing that disappears from most enterprise 3PL contracts the moment you scale. The unknown is what the actual numbers come back at, and the only way to find out is to talk to sales. Get two or three competitive quotes before committing, eLogistics included.
GEODIS Visibility Control Tower
The customer-facing BI layer across the GEODIS network is called GEODIS Visibility, a unified control tower that aggregates WMS, TMS, LMS, and YMS data with widget-based dashboards, custom report templates, carrier scorecards, and branded tracking URLs. An October 2024 middleware and EDI integration release added self-service access to EDI X12 documents (including functional acknowledgments), letting customers filter by document type and download directly. Note that the operational WMS stack is mixed: a proprietary GEODIS WMS at most sites alongside Manhattan WMS at certain enterprise facilities. IRIS, the digital portal frequently mentioned in GEODIS press releases, is the air-and-ocean freight forwarding tool, not the warehouse system.
Two-Tier Fulfillment Product
eLogistics is the DTC-focused tier: SaaS dashboard, roughly five-day integration to major ecommerce platforms, and the no-minimum month-to-month terms covered in the pricing section. The Fast Integration API self-service portal (launched September 2022) lets technical teams stand up custom integrations without an implementation queue. Enterprise contract logistics, which GEODIS calls GeoLaunch, runs 60 to 90 days from contract signature to first shipment, staffed with dedicated logistics engineers and project managers.
Warehouse Network and Automation
The 150+ US warehouses span 50M+ sq ft, with the densest clusters in Tennessee, Texas, California, the Northeast corridor, and Florida. Two automation deployments are worth naming. Asheville, NC houses an AutoStore system built for Maurices: 320 robots over a 92,000-bin grid that runs 120,000 retail and 60,000 ecommerce units a day with headroom to 250,000. Carlisle, PA runs a Locus Robotics AMR deployment that crossed 10 million units picked in December 2024, part of a 1,000-bot global commitment with Locus. A KNAPP partnership announced in 2021 supports additional automated fulfillment installations. Beyond these flagship sites, voice picking, RF scanning, putwalls, and print-and-apply systems are standard across the network.
Returns Management
The returns platform was refreshed in June 2025 with two new modules. A consumer-facing returns workflow portal generates RMAs in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and handles label issuance. A warehouse-side returns management module covers grading, disposition, restocking, and fraud detection through SSCC and RMA scanning. Native integrations cover Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and Magento. The platform processes millions of returns a year across the GEODIS network.
Omnichannel and Retail Compliance
The Maurices deployment is the named case for single-pool inventory feeding DTC, retail replenishment, and BOPIS from the same facility. GEODIS handles EDI X12 across customer-routing-guide setups, plus floor-ready packaging, kitting (50M+ kits a year across the network with kit-to-stock, kit-to-order, kit-to-forecast, and kit-to-KANBAN models), ticketing, and hangering. They do not publicly tout specific big-box retailer compliance badges (Walmart, Target) on product pages. The capability is generic rather than vertical-marketed.
Cold Chain and Specialty Handling
The first Americas cold-chain cross-dock opened in Chicago, with 78,000 sq ft total and 5,200 sq ft of temperature-controlled space (4,600 sq ft at 15-25°C and 600 sq ft at 2-8°C). This is healthcare and pharma focused rather than consumer food and beverage. Four US branches hold CEIV Pharma certification: Chicago, Atlanta, New York, and Los Angeles. Hazmat capability covers lithium battery shipments on a case-by-case eligibility basis under a named hazmat program manager.
International and Cross-Border
Freight forwarding spans ocean, air, road, and rail in 170+ countries, supported by 800+ trade and customs professionals. The IRIS digital freight portal handles air and ocean tracking, quoting, and documents. GEODIS holds licensed US customs broker status and offers DDP solutions packaged specifically for cross-border ecommerce. MyParcel cross-border gateways out of Los Angeles and New York support postal injection for international parcel flows. The freight-forwarding scope is meaningfully deeper than Stord or GXO, closer to DHL Supply Chain or Kuehne+Nagel territory.
Integrations
GEODIS supports direct API integration with Shopify, Amazon (Seller Central, Vendor Central, Seller-Fulfilled Prime), BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and Magento on the eLogistics tier. NetSuite, EDI X12, and a REST API cover ERP and custom builds. The Shopify integration is direct via API. The historical Shopify App Store listing for GEODIS is no longer active, so there's no public app rating to cite. Magento and WooCommerce are supported but de-emphasized in current marketing; Shopify and Amazon are the headline integrations.
GEODIS is a strong fit for two distinct merchant profiles. The first is an established DTC brand ready for enterprise capabilities: 99.5% two-day US reach, real automation at flagship sites, omnichannel single-pool inventory, a refreshed returns platform, and global freight under one roof. The second is an emerging DTC brand that wants enterprise infrastructure without enterprise commitments. The eLogistics tier's month-to-month contract with 30-day exit for convenience is unusually merchant-friendly for the scale GEODIS operates at, and the five-day integration to Shopify and Amazon lowers the activation friction further.
The tradeoffs are real. Pricing is fully opaque on both tiers, and you won't know what GEODIS costs until you talk to sales. The enterprise tier is an enterprise contract through and through: 12 to 36 month commitments, dedicated account teams, and the kind of discovery process where pricing comes back after a sales call rather than after a form-fill. Where you sit in the book of business shapes who answers the phone when something goes sideways.
The Americas footprint is also being reshuffled. Documented 2025 closures across multiple states reflect lost-contract churn and active portfolio rationalization that predates the broader macro pullback. This is GEODIS choosing which buildings to keep open as much as the economy forcing the issue. The remaining network is still very large. The practical move during diligence is to ask about your specific candidate facility's contract pipeline and tenure, not to read the closure list as a verdict on the company.
Leadership context matters too. Laura Ritchey took the Americas CEO role in July 2025 from Mike Honious, who retired after 20 years at GEODIS. Ritchey came from Radial, a direct ecommerce-3PL competitor, which signals a sharper ecommerce orientation in the Americas business. Worth asking about her priorities and any account-team changes during sales conversations.
Public merchant feedback on GEODIS eLogistics is thin. One G2 review on the company profile, no active Shopify app rating, no substantive discussion in the obvious subreddits. The bulk of Trustpilot and PissedConsumer sentiment is European end-consumer last-mile complaints, which is a different product and a different region than what eLogistics offers US merchants. The absence of merchant chatter is itself a signal: this is a tier where most reference customers are quiet enterprise accounts and the SMB-facing eLogistics tier hasn't yet built broad community presence. Ask for two or three customer references in your size and category before committing.
GEODIS uses custom pricing on both its eLogistics (DTC) and enterprise contract logistics tiers. The eLogistics structure is published — per cubic foot storage billed daily, per-carton or per-polybag order rate, supplies fee, and shipping passed through with carrier markup — but actual rates are quote-only. Enterprise contracts are typically 12 to 36 months and frequently cited at $100K+ per month minimum by third-party 3PL matchmakers, though GEODIS doesn't publish these figures itself. You'll need a sales conversation for any specific number.
eLogistics is GEODIS's DTC fulfillment tier, launched in September 2021, designed for emerging ecommerce brands. The differences from enterprise contract logistics are concrete: no order minimums, no setup fees, no minimum storage fees, a one-month initial term with monthly auto-renewal, and 30 days' notice to terminate for convenience. Enterprise contracts typically run 12 to 36 months with dedicated account teams and a 60 to 90 day GeoLaunch implementation. eLogistics brands get a SaaS dashboard and roughly five-day integration to Shopify, Amazon, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, or Magento.
Not at the eLogistics tier. Per their public pricing page, there are no order minimums, no SKU limits, and no minimum storage fees. The enterprise contract logistics tier is a different conversation — third-party aggregators describe typical minimums around $100K+ per month, but GEODIS doesn't publish these directly.
GEODIS operates 150+ US warehouses across 50M+ sq ft, concentrated heavily in Tennessee (Brentwood Americas HQ, Nashville, LaVergne, Lebanon, Memphis), Texas (Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston), California (Los Angeles, Ontario, Riverside), the Northeast corridor (Newark, Robbinsville, Bethlehem, Carlisle), Florida (Miami, Orlando), the Carolinas (Charlotte, Raleigh), Ohio (Columbus, Cincinnati), and Chicago. The network delivers 99.5% two-day ground coverage of the continental US.
Yes, via direct API integration on the eLogistics tier. Note that the historical Shopify app store listing is no longer active, so there is no public app rating to reference. GEODIS also supports Amazon (Seller Central, Vendor Central, Seller-Fulfilled Prime), BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Magento, NetSuite, EDI X12, and a REST API for custom builds. The Fast Integration API self-service portal (launched September 2022) allows technical teams to connect without going through a dedicated implementation queue.
Yes, and the returns platform was meaningfully refreshed in June 2025. Two modules launched: a consumer-facing returns workflow portal with multilingual RMA generation (English, Spanish, Portuguese) and a warehouse-side returns management module covering grading, disposition, fraud detection, and analytics. Native integrations to Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and Magento. Fee structure is a setup fee plus variable activity-based charges — specific dollar figures aren't published.
Yes, with a healthcare and pharma orientation in the US. The Americas' first dedicated cold-chain cross-dock opened in Chicago, with 5,200 sq ft of temperature-controlled space (15-25°C and 2-8°C ranges). Four US branches — Chicago, Atlanta, New York, and Los Angeles — hold CEIV Pharma certification. Cold-chain pharma is more of a focus than consumer food and beverage in the US footprint, which is worth knowing if you're an ingestibles or supplement brand looking for ambient plus temperature-controlled in the same facility.
GEODIS sits in the enterprise contract-logistics tier alongside DHL Supply Chain, GXO, and Radial — large network, custom pricing, long contracts. The eLogistics tier is GEODIS's response to mid-market DTC competition from ShipBob, ShipMonk, and Stord. Versus Stord specifically: GEODIS has a much larger global freight forwarding footprint, comparable US two-day ground reach, and (at the eLogistics tier) does not charge a separate platform SaaS fee — Stord One starts around $30K/year. Versus DHL Supply Chain: DHL has more US facilities (~350 vs. GEODIS's 150+) but doesn't offer an equivalent no-minimum DTC on-ramp.
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