Sourcing Software for Distributors

Sell local products without stocking them.

Local Line helps Sysco, US Foods, and Gordon Food Service buy local. Curate the farms, list their products as your own, and let the farm ship every order direct.

Trusted by Sysco, US Foods, & GFS plus regional broadliners and produce distributors.

90% less time onboarding new suppliers.

Local might not belong in your warehouse, but it does belong in your catalog.

Chefs are asking for local every week. Stocking it the traditional way means new SKUs, cold storage, and working capital tied up in cases you may not move. Local Line flips the model: list thousands of local items in your e-commerce portal, take the order, and the farm ships direct. You expand your assortment without expanding your warehouse.

No warehouse. No inventory.

Every item lives on the farm until a chef orders it. You list and sell — the producer picks, packs, and ships direct. Zero working capital tied up in local.

Margin on every order.

You set the markup. You invoice the chef on your terms. We pay the farm. The economics work like a new revenue line, without the overhead of a new product line.

An assortment competitors can't match.

Thousands of small producers, regional specialties, and seasonal items national catalogs don't carry. Become the place chefs go for what they can't get anywhere else.

Built for Distributors of Every Size

National scale. Regional reach.

The drop-ship model works the same whether you're powering a national marketplace or launching a regional digital channel.

National Broadliners

A local marketplace that lives inside your catalog.

✓Already powering local at Sysco, US Foods, and Gordon Food Service
✓Thousands of vetted local farms surfaced inside your existing portal
✓Drop-ship fulfillment — the farm picks, packs, and ships every order direct
✓Integrates with your ERP, OMS, and accounting so orders flow like any other SKU

Regional Broadline & Produce

Launch your own local marketplace without needing warehouse space.

✓Stand up a drop-ship marketplace inside your existing e-commerce portal
✓Curate the farms; we vet food safety, certifications, and shipping readiness
✓Set your markup per product or per account — margin on every drop-ship order
✓You invoice the chef. We pay the farms. No new AR, AP, or warehouse process.

The Grocery Procurement Platform

A drop-ship marketplace, under your brand.

Local Line plugs into your existing channel and runs the four pieces that make local actually work as a sellable assortment.

Curate

Pick the farms. We've already vetted them.

Browse 10,000+ producers by region, category, certification, and shipping readiness. Build your local assortment from a network that's already onboarded, insured, and ready to drop-ship — or bring in farms you already know and we'll handle activation.

List

Local items live in your e-commerce portal.

Push curated products straight into your existing catalog. Set your markup per product or per category. Chefs see your branding, your pricing, your terms.

Order & Ship

Chef orders. Farm ships direct. You never touch it.

When a chef places an order, it routes through you to the farm. The producer picks, packs, and ships direct to the operator's door. No warehouse, no truck, no transfer.

Invoice & Settle

You invoice the chef. We pay the farms.

Every drop-ship order rolls into the chef's existing account with you — same invoice, same terms, same payment method. You collect at your markup. We handle settlement to every farm, on a single consolidated payout.

Features for Distributors

Marketplace infrastructure built for local food.

Everything required to run a drop-ship marketplace — catalog, compliance, fulfillment, and settlement — in one platform.

Thousands of farms, ready to list.

Curate from a vetted network of 10,000+ producers, or bring your own. We handle activation, food safety records, and shipping readiness so you only see farms that can actually fulfill an order.

10,000+ local producers in the Local Line network — ready to drop-ship into your customers.

Chef orders. Farm ships. 2 day delivery.

Every order routes automatically to the producer who carries the SKU, with delivery windows, packing specs, and labels generated on the fly.

Margin on every order. Zero AP overhead.

Set your markup per product, category, or account. You invoice the chef on existing terms; Local Line settles with every farm on a single consolidated payout.

See exactly what local is doing for your customers.

Drop-ship GMV, attach rates, top SKUs, repeat-chef behavior, regional demand. The data to expand the program where it's already working.

Audit-ready for every farm in your catalog.

GAP, organic, regenerative, and growing-practice docs — stored per producer, surfaced per SKU, and flagged on expiry. Compliance scales with your assortment, not against it.

Drops into the channel you already run.

Local Line is built to live inside your existing e-commerce, ERP, and OMS — not replace it. Drop-ship orders flow through the same systems your team already uses for every other SKU.

The fastest way to add local is to stop trying to stock it.

Local doesn't fit a national distribution footprint — short harvests, small lots, fragmented producers. Drop-ship turns those constraints into an advantage. You sell the assortment; the farm carries the inventory; the chef gets the product. Everyone earns where they're best.

Sysco, US Foods, and Gordon Food Service all chose drop-ship over warehousing for local. The assortment lives on the farm. The order lives on their platform. Everything in between is Local Line.

A Real Partnership

Sell in-demand products that exist outside your warehouse.

Our team plugs into yours, runs the integration, brings the producer network online, and stays on once you're live.

Your sourcing software questions, answered.

Everything you need to know about Local Line's sourcing software for distributors. Any further questions? Reach out to our team below.

What is a drop-ship marketplace for distributors?

A drop-ship marketplace is a digital catalog of products that a distributor sells under their own brand, but doesn't physically stock — the producer picks, packs, and ships every order direct to the buyer. Local Line powers drop-ship marketplaces for Sysco, US Foods, and Gordon Food Service, plus regional broadliners and produce distributors. The distributor curates the assortment and sets the markup; the farm carries inventory and fulfills orders.

How does Local Line work for broadline distributors like Sysco or US Foods?

Local Line plugs into the distributor's existing e-commerce portal, ERP, and OMS — it's not a separate buyer-facing system. Chefs see the local assortment inside the same catalog they already order from. When an order is placed, it routes to the producer, who picks, packs, and ships direct. The distributor invoices the chef on existing terms, and Local Line handles consolidated payouts to every farm.

Do distributors need to warehouse local products to sell them on Local Line?

No. Drop-ship fulfillment means every product lives on the farm until a chef orders it. There's no inventory in the distributor's warehouse, no working capital tied up in slow-moving local SKUs, and no cold-storage commitment. The distributor lists thousands of items and earns margin on every order without warehousing a single unit.

How many local farms can a distributor add through Local Line?

Local Line gives distributors access to a vetted network of 10,000+ local producers ready to drop-ship into their catalog. Distributors curate which farms to list — by region, category, certification, or growing practice — and Local Line's team handles food-safety vetting, catalog setup, and shipping readiness so only fulfillment-ready producers reach the catalog.

Can regional distributors use Local Line, or is it only for national broadliners?

Local Line is built for distributors of every size. Regional broadline and produce distributors use the same drop-ship infrastructure as Sysco, US Foods, and GFS to launch a local marketplace inside their existing e-commerce portal — without needing warehouse space, new logistics, or working capital. The platform runs in 14 countries.