Partnering with America’s most beloved and emerging brands.
McLane is a leading distribution provider offering a range of services designed to help suppliers increase efficiency, reduce friction across the supply chain, and grow their businesses. With a vast network of distribution centers, one of America’s largest fleets, and a team of expert merchandisers, marketers, logistics professionals, and sales teammates, McLane helps suppliers reach more customers and streamline the path from product to shelf.
Increase your reach, and grow your business with confidence.
When you work with McLane, you can simplify your supply chain, expand your reach, and grow your business with confidence. Whether you need standard distribution services, 3PL logistics services, custom go-to-market approaches, or advanced digital and data solutions, McLane is dedicated to helping suppliers succeed.
Distribution: The Foundation of Everything We Do
McLane’s distribution network spans the country, reaching nearly every zip code in the United States. Serving convenience stores, mass merchants, chain restaurants, and beyond, we manage the movement of approximately 22 billion pounds of merchandise annually. Our facilities are engineered for throughput, with conveyor systems, automation, and advanced data analytics that drive accuracy and efficiency at every stage of the order lifecycle.
Our distribution model supports multiple packaging configurations, from full pallets to individual sell units, giving customers the flexibility to receive exactly what they need, exactly when they need it.
Flexible Logistics Services to Move Any Product Anywhere, Anytime
McLane’s warehouse operations encompass 19 million square feet of warehouse space, including 5.5 million square feet of frozen and refrigerated capacity, purpose-built for the demands of food, beverage, and consumer goods supply chains.
Our warehouses are engineered to handle dry, refrigerated, and frozen products under one roof, helping reduce the complexity and cost of managing multiple storage partners across multiple temperature environments. McLane’s state-of-the-art fleet is temperature monitored and regulated to support safe, on-time delivery and ties directly into our multi-temperature warehouse network, creating a seamless, integrated supply chain from storage to delivery.
Whether we are managing operations in your building or ours, using our fleet or brokering freight on your behalf with third-party carriers, storing your cool, frozen, and dry goods month to month, or managing your supply chain end to end, McLane has the distribution expertise and scale to help your business compete and grow.
Center for Category Innovation
At the Center for Category Innovation, McLane category experts, supplier partners, and customers collaborate to evaluate new products, identify industry trends, and uncover actionable category insights. By leveraging robust product and category data, customers can develop optimized assortments and planograms that enhance category performance and maximize sales opportunities.
Data that Delivers Growth
McLane’s scale gives suppliers access to one of the most valuable views of product movement across the U.S. convenience, retail, and foodservice landscape.
Our proprietary supplier data platform is a subscription-based solution that helps brands turn McLane’s distribution volume into actionable insight, supporting smarter planning, stronger execution, and measurable business growth. Used by leading CPG brands across the country, the platform gives you visibility into how your items are performing across the McLane network, including sales trends, inventory positions, purchase order activity, customer group performance, trade class performance, and division-level movement. With timely, exportable data at your fingertips, you can identify growth opportunities, uncover gaps, improve forecasting, and make more informed decisions about promotions, production, assortment, and customer engagement.
Advanced Digital, Technology, and Omni-Channel Solutions
McLane suppliers have access to an expanding suite of digital, technology, and omni-channel solutions designed to create a more connected, data-driven supply chain. Through our integrated business planning and demand intelligence platform, McLane combines sales history, seasonality, promotional calendars, and market signals to produce more accurate forecasts, helping reduce stockouts, minimize excess inventory, and create measurable value for our supplier partners. The platform also enables a shared planning environment where our buyers, merchandisers, category teams, and supplier partners work from the same forward-looking demand signals, improving production planning and allowing constraints to be identified before they become shortages. When disruptions happen, scenario planning capabilities help model alternatives in hours instead of weeks, turning uncertainty into fast, data-driven recommendations.
McLane360 is a digital platform designed to create a more connected experience between McLane, customers, and suppliers. It brings ordering, delivery visibility, notifications, and future digital capabilities into a single experience. Learn more at McLane360.
McLaneXpress offers flexible pick-and-ship options for suppliers who need access to top-selling merchandise such as tobacco, salty snacks, candy, and more.
McLane’s Emerging Brands marketplace is a fast, easy way for larger manufacturers to test or promote new innovations and line extensions and for smaller, emerging brands to connect with McLane customers. This innovative marketplace helps retailers discover and test new products while continuing to receive established top-selling brands through McLane’s trusted distribution network. Submit your product today to join the Emerging Brands marketplace network.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Can any supplier be automatically setup in the McLane network?
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McLane sets up new suppliers based on our customer requests. Once you have secured a customer in our network, please contact us to begin the supplier agreement process.
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How is freight handled?
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Freight is the responsibility of the supplier. Supplier must be able to ship to all applicable McLane Grocery facilities.
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What is needed regarding a W-9 (or W-8 for foreign vendors)?
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- Most recent IRS version
- The Name on the agreement should match the legal entity name on the W-9 (or W-8)
- The Company Name must include abbreviation for business type (i.e., LLC, Inc., LTD., Corp., Co.)
- Please only list Company Name/TIN or EIN and not an individual’s name or SSN.
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What are the Supplier Insurance Requirements?
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What can slow down the agreement process?
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Delays in any step of the process can occur. One of the most common delays is the Company Name and address on your COI and W-9 (W-8 for foreign vendors) must match identically or it will result in delays with the approval process. Using outdated versions of the W-9 (or the incorrect W-8 form for foreign vendors) will also delay the process. The correct form for foreign vendors should be Form W-8BEN-E.
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Where do I need to go to start an agreement with McLane Company?
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Click the Become a Supplier button below or click here.
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Who should I contact regarding my products or agreement questions?
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Please contact the appropriate category manager or department below.
McLANE DEPARTMENTS
- Accounts Payable
- Cost and Deal
- Data and Global Synchronization
- EDI
- New Items
- Consumer Value Products (CVP)
- Space Management
PRODUCT CATEGORIES
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