Octopia Logistics, your 3PL provider for large-scale logistics
Octopia Logistics is the Cdiscount group’s 3PL provider, built on 25 years of operational expertise from C-Logistics. It combines logistics execution and business support to accelerate growth for mid-sized and large enterprises.
What sets us apart from a traditional 3PL
A 3PL manages your operations and monitors its contractual KPIs. Octopia Logistics goes beyond operational management. Its 80 experts based in Bordeaux analyze your inventory, anticipate stockouts, propose preventive replenishment, and share business recommendations and best practices across your distribution channels. You benefit from performance-driven support, beyond simple shipment tracking. This is what the term e-3PL covers: the combination of a logistics partner and a business partner, within a single provider.
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Octopia Logistics in numbers
Octopia Logistics is a recognized player in the French e-commerce logistics market for mid-sized enterprises, DNVBs, and large accounts shipping 150,000+ parcels per year. Backed by the Cdiscount group, it combines industrial infrastructure, e-commerce connectivity, and business support in an integrated offering designed for brands whose logistics should drive growth, not hold it back.
The offering in detail
Industrial infrastructure
Octopia Logistics operates three proprietary warehouses in France: Réau in the Paris region, Cestas near Bordeaux, and Andrézieux near Saint-Étienne. Each site is equipped with advanced automation systems (Exotec, Nomagic, Okular Logistics, CVP Everest 3D packaging), sized to absorb seasonal peaks without any drop in service quality.
Personalized preparation
Custom packaging, branded boxes, insert printing, product stickering: every order is prepared to your requirements, not to an imposed standard. Octopia Logistics handles parcels up to 30 kg, for both B2C and B2B flows.
Multi-carrier shipping
Octopia Logistics relies on around ten long-term carrier contracts: Colissimo, Chronopost International, DPD, Relais Colis, Mondial Relay. These pooled rates aren’t accessible to an individual e-merchant on their own. Quality is monitored at the unit level, including the exclusion of pickup points that fall below standards.
Technology connectivity
Octopia Logistics’ technology layer, developed in-house since 2021, connects your system to more than 30 marketplaces and synchronizes inventory and orders in real time across all your sales channels, via API or native CMS compatibility.
Business support
80 logistics and e-commerce experts dedicated to the performance of your operations: inventory analysis, preventive replenishment, recommendations across your sales channels. A dedicated KAM and regular business reviews, not just at signing.
Responsible logistics
3D packaging reduces parcel volume by 30% on average, meaning 30% fewer trucks. 90% of packaging is recycled, the cardboard is eco-labeled, and the ink is 100% plant-based.
What does onboarding look like?
Logistics migration is the number one barrier to switching providers. Octopia Logistics has structured a six-step process with a dedicated point of contact at each phase, to guarantee a go-live with no service disruption.
Needs identification, product fit, first contact.
Presentation of Octopia Logistics and C-Logistics, answers to your technical questions.
Detailed quotation: volumes, P&L, operational assumptions.
Presentation to your decision-makers, responses to objections.
Warehouse tour and live demonstration of capabilities.
Final negotiation, framework agreement, go-live with no service disruption.
Our clients' results
Morphée was shipping 80,000 parcels per year with a 3PL that could no longer keep up with its growth. After migrating to Octopia Logistics, the savings achieved were reinvested into launching a new product.
Japhy processes 550,000 orders per year with personalization on every parcel. Octopia Logistics absorbs these volumes while maintaining a level of preparation quality compatible with double-digit growth..
Who is it for?
Octopia Logistics serves mid-sized enterprises, large accounts, and DNVBs at scale in the retail, FMCG, small appliances, garden, DIY, and games and toys sectors, shipping 150,000+ parcels per year. Its clients share a common need for advanced personalization, tailored quotes, and a provider able to adapt to their operational constraints and growth pace. Companies turn to Octopia Logistics when their current logistics provider can no longer keep up with their growth, lacks flexibility, no longer meets their service quality requirements, charges rates no longer justified by the service delivered, fails to absorb their expansion, results in insufficient delivery times, doesn’t offer enough visibility into KPIs, or when they want to accelerate their international expansion and optimize their logistics costs. Thanks to volume pooling and more than twenty years of continuous optimization, Octopia Logistics offers competitive pricing for this segment.
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