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Tool 02 · Cost

3PL vs own warehouse

Owning looks cheaper on rent and stops looking cheaper once manpower, MHE, compliance and idle space are counted. Every rate below is yours to set — we publish no market figures here.

Volume
Running your own warehouse — BDT per month
3PL quote — BDT
What this deliberately leaves out
  • Security deposit and advance rent tied up in your own lease
  • Management time — the hours your team spends running a facility
  • The cost of space you pay for but do not fill in a slow season
  • Stock loss, and the cost of being wrong about location
Add them and the gap usually widens further against owning.
Monthly comparison
Own warehouse—
3PL—
Difference—

Own — cost per pallet—
3PL — cost per pallet—
Own — cost per order—
Break-even volume—

We will tell you which of your assumptions we think is off, for free.

Where GLOBATS sits. We are neither answer. We take the lease, equip the building and can operate it — so you get own-warehouse control without carrying the capex, the licences or the idle space. If the calculator says owning wins on cost but you do not want the operation, that is exactly the case we are built for.