Why Use Lynden?
You have various options available to get your product to Market:

1. Establish your own warehousing and distribution locations. This diverts resources and focus from your sales, marketing and/or manufacturing of your product.
2. Share warehousing/distribution facilities with another company and/or use various wholesalers.
3. Use Lynden, an impartial provider of third-party logistics.

The benefits of using Lynden are:

• No capital outlay in building and equipment
• Totally variable costs (staffing & management & other fixed costs)
• No requirements for staff and the problems attendant with staffing such as:
  ? Covering for variances in activity
  ? Vacations, illness & back ups
  ? Recruiting/training warehousing and customer service personnel
• Reduced transportation costs
• National coverage
• Extensive experience in conversion to direct selling
• An up to date customer name and address list that can be modified to include your customers and territory codes
• Control own pricing. Maintain price and terms of sale.
• Continued Ownership of inventory until sale of goods.
• Work with own sales force.
• Data communication facilities including EDI capabilities to offer your customers from all our locations to you.

An Outline:
Lynden has been working with a number of sectors for over 60 years, providing efficient, time and cost effective brand neutral distribution of their products to the trade:

• Hospital
• Drug Stores
• Wholesalers
• Clinics
• Government Institutions
• Doctors
• Nursing Homes
• Veterinarians
• Grocery Wholesalers
• Manufacturers

We operate three full service depots across Canada:

• Delta (Vancouver), British Columbia
• Calgary, Alberta
• Vaughan (Toronto), Ontario

Our present clients use one, several or all of these depots, depending on their requirements.

Each depot is fully equipped as follows:

• Full electronic security
• Shelving and racking
• Coolers
• Narcotics/controlled drug lockers
• Fully licensed pharmacist
• Inventory handling equipment
• Independent computer hardware at each location
• Software packages developed in-house

Services Offered:
Customer Service

• Order Desk
• Order Processing
• Customer invoicing accommodates variable pricing and manages multiple-level contracts
• Bill of Lading alternatively available
• Your own product knowledgeable Account Service Representative

Warehousing

• Pharmaceutical standard warehousing
• GMP compliant facilities
• Regularly audited by government agency on behalf of clients
• Unit picking and repacking
• Customer returns management

Computer Systems

• Computerized Inventory Control
• Lot number, serial number and expiry date reporting
• RF technology used throughout all facilities
• EDI Trading Partners
• Auditability of Transactions
• Data Transmission

Transportation Services

• Small package, LTL and Consolidation programs
• Rates based on negotiated total freight volume ? Freight statistics ? Order tracking/tracing & P.O.D.?s

Accounts Receivable

• Management of A/R processes

Customs Brokerage Services

• Available through Lynden partners