Your product does not sit in Irvine. It sits at 25541 Arctic Ocean Dr in Lake Forest, roughly 15 minutes down the I‑5, and it ships from there the same day when the order lands before 2pm Pacific. 6G Logistic handles receiving, storage, pick and pack, Amazon FBA prep and outbound freight for Irvine brands that have run out of room. Owner‑operated since 2016. Four Southern California warehouses. A named contact who answers the phone.
Plenty of 3PL websites will tell you they have an Irvine warehouse. Third‑party logistics, or 3PL, means a company that stores your inventory and ships your orders for you. Some of those Irvine addresses are a mailbox. Some are a broker who will hand your pallets to somebody else. Here is ours, and here is how far it actually is from you.
| Where you are in Irvine | Route | Typical drive |
|---|---|---|
| Irvine Spectrum | I-5 south, a few exits | About 10 minutes |
| Woodbridge, Northwood | I-5 south via Jeffrey or Alton | About 15 minutes |
| Irvine Business Complex, near John Wayne Airport | I-405 to I-5, or Sand Canyon | About 20 to 25 minutes |
| University Research Park, UCI area | I-405 to SR-133 to I-5 | About 20 minutes |
Your customers do not care which building your inventory sleeps in. They care when the box lands. From Lake Forest, standard ground reaches California, Arizona and Nevada in one to two days, which covers more than 50 million consumers, and reaches all 48 contiguous states through our carrier network.
Where the distance does matter is on the days it matters most: a sample pull before a trade show, a mislabeled pallet you want to look at yourself, a peak season Saturday when you want eyes on the floor. You can drive to our dock in the time it takes to get across Irvine at 5pm. Try that with a 3PL in Ohio.
See how our ecommerce fulfillment works or view all four Southern California warehouses.
Irvine is an easy place to run a consumer brand and a hard place to store one. That is not bad luck. It is how the city was planned, zoned and built out.
The leasable inventory around the Spectrum and the Irvine Business Complex leans heavily toward research, development and flex buildings. They look industrial from the parking lot. Inside, you often get grade‑level roll‑up doors instead of dock‑high doors, low clear height, and a slab that was never poured for racking.
Business park circulation is designed for cars. Turning radii, parking ratios and association rules on truck traffic and outdoor storage were written with office tenants in mind. If you cannot receive a full trailer, you cannot import at any real scale without paying somebody to break it down first.
Orange County industrial rents averaged $1.46 per square foot per month on a triple net basis in the first quarter of 2026, with direct vacancy at 5.7%, according to Kidder Mathews. South Orange County submarkets sit at the top of that range. Triple net means you pay taxes, insurance and maintenance on top of the base rent.
| Flex unit in Irvine | Small warehouse lease in OC | Warehouse services at 6G Logistic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commitment | Usually 3 years, often longer | 3 to 5 years, triple net | One-year term agreement |
| Truck access | Grade-level roll-up, parcel and small LTL only | Dock-high, depends on the building | Dock-high, full trailers and containers received |
| Racking and equipment | You buy it and install it | You buy it and install it | Already in place |
| Labor | You hire, train and cover peak | You hire, train and cover peak | Our floor staff, scaled to your season |
| Software | You license and configure it | You license and configure it | Our warehouse management system, connected to your store |
| What you pay for | Square feet, whether full or empty | Square feet, whether full or empty | Space used and work performed, with a $500 monthly invoice minimum |
| Breaks down when | You outgrow the door before the lease ends | Volume drops and the space sits empty | You need a dedicated facility and total control |
Market data last updated August 2026. Verify current rates with a commercial broker before you sign anything. If your monthly fulfillment work would not reach $500, a lease is not your problem yet and neither is a 3PL.
Eight service lines, all running out of the same four Southern California buildings. Most Irvine brands start with two of them and add more as the catalogue grows.
Appointment-based inbound. We count against your packing list, photograph damage, flag shortages the same day and put stock away to a location, not to a corner. Discrepancies go to you before they become an inventory mystery in November.
Receiving processPallet positions, shelf bins and floor space, priced by what you actually occupy. Seasonal overflow goes to Perris so a July container does not eat the pick faces you need in October.
Storage optionsOrders in before 2pm Pacific go out the same day. 99%+ order accuracy. Your inserts, your tissue, your branded mailer, packed the way you specify rather than the way the conveyor prefers.
Ecommerce fulfillmentFNSKU labeling, which is the barcode Amazon uses to tell your unit apart from every other seller's, plus poly bagging, bundling, carton labels and pallet prep to Amazon's current Seller Central requirements. Shipments leave here prepped for the SoCal fulfillment centers, ONT2, ONT8 and LAX9.
FBA prep serviceRetailer routing guides, EDI transaction sets including the 856 advance ship notice, pallet build to spec, carton marking and label placement. Chargebacks come from the details on this list, so we work the list.
B2B fulfillmentReturned units inspected, graded, restocked and sellable within 48 hours. Damaged and unsellable stock is separated and reported rather than quietly folded back into your on-hand count.
Returns handlingWe build, wrap, weigh and dimension your pallets, prepare the bill of lading, stage the freight and load the truck at our dock. LTL means less than truckload, where your pallets share a trailer. FTL means the trailer is all yours.
Freight handlingSome freight should never be put away. Inbound gets received, sorted and moved back out to its next stop without taking a storage position. Our Commerce building sits closest to the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports for exactly this.
Cross-dockingSubscription boxes, retail bundles, gift-with-purchase, promo inserts and multipacks. This one is quoted per project because a six-piece kit and a two-piece kit are not the same job. Send us the build sheet and we will price it.
All servicesNine platforms, connected by direct API. No spreadsheet exports, no nightly CSV upload, no intern pasting order numbers at 11pm. Orders land in our warehouse management system as they are placed, and tracking numbers go back the same way.
Store connection takes 1 to 3 business days. Shopify is the most common starting point, so we wrote up how Shopify orders move from checkout to carrier.
If your customer list skews west, a Southern California warehouse is worth more than a cheaper rate card somewhere else. Ground costs less than air, and from here ground is already fast.
Carrier transit commitments are the carrier's, not ours. We control the cutoff and the dock. Read more on why brands warehouse in Southern California.
The common thread is not an industry. It is a founder who wants to reach one person who already knows the account, rather than open a ticket and wait.
Skincare, supplements, apparel, home goods. Branded unboxing, insert programs, and packaging rules that get followed instead of averaged out.
FBA prep, FBM orders, or both at once from one pool of inventory. Prep is done here, before it ships to the fulfillment center, where a rejection costs you weeks.
Monthly kit builds with a hard ship window. We plan labor against your renewal date rather than discovering it on the day.
Retail purchase orders, routing guides, EDI documents and pallet specs. Compliance is where the margin leaks and where the attention goes.
Container arrives at our Commerce or Jurupa Valley dock, gets devanned, counted and either put away or cross-docked straight back out.
Usually the same story: accuracy slipped, nobody picks up, and the invoice has line items you cannot explain. Read five signs you have outgrown your 3PL.
Four steps. Most Irvine brands are shipping live orders 5 to 7 business days after the agreement is signed, assuming your inventory arrives on time.
Monthly order volume, active SKU count, average units per order, where your customers are, and anything unusual. Quote back within 24 hours.
Come see Lake Forest before you commit. You are 15 minutes away. Meet the person who will be handling your account, not a salesperson passing through.
Your store connects in 1 to 3 business days. We set your inbound appointment, SKU profiles, packaging rules and cutoff expectations at the same time.
Inventory arrives, gets counted against your packing list and put away. Orders start flowing. Live in 5 to 7 business days from signature.
Switching from an existing provider adds time on their side, not ours. Getting inventory released from an incumbent is usually the longest step, so read how long 3PL onboarding actually takes before you give notice, and see how our pricing is structured.
We would rather lose the quote than lose six months of your time. Five situations where you should call somebody else.
Shipping from Lake Forest to New Jersey is a long ground run no matter how fast we pack it. If most of your revenue is east of the Mississippi, a Pennsylvania or Georgia warehouse will beat us on transit and on rate. That is arithmetic, not opinion.
Our invoice carries a $500 monthly minimum, and if your charges fall short we bill the difference. At low volume that works out expensive per order. Keep packing in the garage a while longer. It is the right answer more often than a 3PL website will tell you.
ShipBob and ShipMonk operate at a scale we do not, and at high volume their rate cards can come in under ours. If you are optimizing purely on cost per order and do not care who answers the phone, take the cheaper number. We compete on access and straight answers, not on being the lowest bid.
We do not run temperature-controlled storage and we do not handle hazardous materials. Refrigerated product, anything with a lithium battery classification issue, aerosols, flammables. Call a specialist. Do not let any 3PL improvise this for you.
We work on a one-year term agreement. It is how we staff and plan capacity, and it is not something we hide until the paperwork stage. And if your decision hinges on a particular dashboard or login experience, ask us on the call exactly what reporting you will receive and how you will receive it. We would rather set that expectation in advance than have you find out in week three.
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. Our Orange County warehouse is at 25541 Arctic Ocean Dr, Lake Forest, CA 92630, roughly 10 to 25 minutes from most parts of Irvine depending on where you sit. We serve Irvine businesses from that building. We also operate warehouses in Jurupa Valley, Commerce and Perris, giving us more than 100,000 square feet across four Southern California locations.
Yes, and you should. Ask to see the receiving dock, the pick faces for products like yours, and how returns are staged. Any warehouse looks fine in a photo. Fifteen minutes on the floor tells you more than a proposal does. Call sales on (949) 468-7759 and we will set a time.
Orders received before 2pm Pacific are picked, packed and handed to the carrier the same day. From Lake Forest to an Irvine address is a local ground move, so it is typically next day on standard ground service without paying expedited rates. Final delivery timing belongs to the carrier, not to us.
Receiving and inbound, warehousing and storage, pick and pack ecommerce fulfillment, Amazon FBA prep, B2B and retail fulfillment including EDI and routing guide compliance, returns processing, LTL and FTL outbound handling, and cross-docking. Kitting and assembly is quoted per project. Most brands start with receiving, storage and pick and pack.
Yes. Your drayage carrier delivers the container to our dock on a scheduled appointment. We devan it, count against your packing list, photograph any damage, report shortages the same day, and either put the freight away or cross-dock it straight back out. Our Commerce building sits closest to the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports for the shortest drayage run.
By what you occupy: pallet positions, shelf bins or floor space, depending on how your product stores. Storage is one line on the invoice alongside receiving, pick and pack, and packaging materials. Our invoice minimum is $500 a month, and if your charges come in under that we bill the difference. Send your volume and SKU count and you get a quote within 24 hours.
Yes. FNSKU labeling, poly bagging, bundling, carton marking and pallet prep to Amazon's current Seller Central requirements, which we check rather than assume, because Amazon changes them. Shipments leave here prepped for ONT2, ONT8 and LAX9. If you were prepping in-house before Amazon's policy change, our post on what happened after in-house FBA prep ended covers the fallout.
On our side, 5 to 7 business days from signed agreement to live orders, with store integration in 1 to 3 of those days. The variable is your incumbent. Inventory release, final counts and outstanding invoices can add weeks if the relationship is strained. Start that conversation before you plan the transfer date.
Yes. Lake Forest covers Orange County. Jurupa Valley and Perris cover the Inland Empire, and Commerce covers the Los Angeles basin and the port corridor. You can see all four addresses on our locations page.
