What We Do

Four ways to engage.
Seven capabilities to draw from.

We offer four distinct engagement models so the way we work together fits your situation, and seven capability areas your engagement can pull from.

Engagement Models
Project-Based
Consulting

A defined scope, a clear deliverable. You bring a specific problem, we build the solution and hand you something you can own and act on.

Ongoing Engagement
Advisory & Fractional Leadership

Strategic advisory when you need a sounding board. Fractional leadership when you need someone embedded and accountable inside your operation.

Project or Advisory
Crisis Management

When a recall, surge, or disruption demands immediate action, we mobilize fast and bring order to the reverse flow under pressure.

Design-Build
Facility Design

End-to-end design of your returns facility, from block layout and zone sizing to equipment specs and workflow. You get facility drawings, process maps, and a build-ready plan you can hand to your contractor or 3PL.

How Vertistics Works

Embedded in the room where returns decisions get made.

Vertistics team reviewing global return flow routes and KPI dashboards in a boardroom
Core Capabilities

Every engagement is built around your situation.

01

Returns Center Design

Physical layouts engineered for the reverse flow, receiving, triage, grading, refurbish, disposition, and outbound zones designed for volume, dwell-time, and recovery value.

  • Receiving & unload docks
  • Triage & inspection lines
  • Grading & sortation
  • Refurbishment cells
  • Disposition routing
  • Outbound dispatch
Isometric returns center design showing receiving, triage, grading, refurbishment, disposition, and dispatch zones
02
Returns Management & Policy Design

A returns program built for your business, policies, processes, and workflows that protect margin without frustrating customers.

03
Supply Chain Network Design

A reverse logistics network structured for efficiency and cost control, from collection through final disposition.

04
Sustainability, ESG & Circular Economy

Returns operations that reduce waste and produce the ESG metrics your board and investors ask for, carbon per return, landfill diversion, Scope 3, circularity score.

05
Asset Recovery & Value Optimization

Returned goods transformed from a cost center into a revenue stream. Every item directed to its highest-value outcome.

06
Compliance & Risk Management

Returns operations that meet regulatory requirements and hold up under scrutiny, with the controls in place to keep them that way.

07
Cost Analysis & Performance Improvement

A clear view of where your returns operation spends money, where it loses it, and a prioritized path to improving both.

Not sure which engagement model fits your situation? Let's talk through it.
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Not Sure Which Engagement Fits?

Start with a conversation, we'll recommend the right model.

Every returns operation is different. On a 30-minute call we'll size the problem, map the fastest path to value, and tell you which of the four engagement models fits, or if none of them do.

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Distinct engagement models
30 min
Free scoping conversation
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