Simplify Nutraceutical Fulfilment With the 3PL Network and Technology Your Brand Needs
Ensure product integrity, reduce delivery costs, and unify every channel with a fulfilment partner built for supplements.
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What nutraceutical brands need from a fulfilment partner
Nutraceutical brands face strict requirements around compliance, potency, and rapid product cycles. From expiration management to subscription workflows, here are the challenges to solve when selecting a fulfilment partner.
Ensuring product integrity
For nutraceutical brands, ensuring product integrity is crucial to maintain potency. It’s important to choose a fulfilment partner that offers specific capabilities like lot tracking and expiration date management, and has some facilities that are temperature-controlled, GMP-certified, and/or GFSI-certified. Additionally, real-time inventory tools in the dashboard provide visibility to help manage products effectively, including prioritizing picking based on expiration dates (FEFO).
Keeping inventory and orders in sync across channels
Managing DTC refills, subscriptions, marketplace sales, and retailer POs can create inventory blind spots and costly stockouts. Select a platform-driven 3PL that integrates with ecommerce carts, subscription apps, and EDI workflows so every channel draws from a shared, accurate pool of inventory.
Managing rapid flavour launches and reformulations
Seasonal SKUs and limited-edition formulas hit the market fast — leaving little room for lag in receiving or setup. Partner with a fulfilment provider that offers streamlined inbound processes, easy SKU creation, and real-time sell-through analytics to keep launches on track.
Absorbing seasonal volume spikes without overbuilding your team
New-year resolutions, influencer campaigns, and shopping holidays can send order volumes soaring overnight. Look for a 3PL that is equipped to scale labour as needed to manage surges in demand.
Navigating international growth
Supplements often face product eligibility checks, duties, and taxes when crossing international borders, which can lead to delays and unexpected costs. Choose a fulfilment partner that can provide global fulfilment centres across the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Additionally, it should offer DDP (Delivered Duty Paid) shipping options to avoid surprise fees, transparent billing and reporting tools for cost visibility.
ShipBob’s fulfilment solutions that nutraceutical brands care about
ShipBob’s 3PL platform is designed for nutraceutical brands, combining certified storage, inventory automation, and multichannel sync. Here’s how our fulfilment solutions support growth and compliance.
Certified storage
Depending on your needs, ShipBob offers fulfilment centres that are temperature-controlled, GFSI-certified, or GMP-certified in the US and Europe. With real-time inventory visibility and robust reporting, brands can confidently scale while maintaining high standards.
Distributed inventory network
ShipBob helps you distribute inventory across different US regions using its Inventory Placement Program (IPP). This allows orders to ship from locations closer to your customers, which can help reduce shipping distances and costs.
Seamless multichannel sync
Connect carts and marketplaces, plus EDI for US retailers, allowing all channels to draw from a single stock pool in ShipBob. With real-time inventory updates and automated order syncing, you can confidently fulfil DTC, subscription, marketplace, and wholesale orders from a single, accurate stock pool.
Rapid SKU setup and analytics
Launch new flavours and limited-edition products with confidence using ShipBob’s streamlined inbound receiving and SKU management tools. Easily manage SKUs, virtual product bundles, and variants in your product catalogue . Real-time inventory analytics and reporting tools empower you to monitor sell-through rates and make data-driven decisions, helping you keep every launch on track and respond to demand in the moment.
Peak season scalability
ShipBob scales labour and capacity to handle demand peaks, such as seasonal spikes or viral product drops, allowing brands to avoid overbuilding in-house operations. ShipBob’s team can proactively scale labour and resources to ensure orders are fulfilled quickly and accurately, especially if informed in advance of anticipated volume increases.
Cross-border compliance made easy
ShipBob’s multi-country network—with fulfilment centres in the US, Canada, UK, EU, and Australia—helps brands expand into new markets. By leveraging DDP (Delivered Duty Paid) shipping options, ShipBob helps provide customers with a transparent shopping experience by preventing surprise fees upon delivery, though availability can vary by market.
Types of nutraceutical products that companies fulfil with ShipBob
- Specialized Support (such as joint support, sleep support, eye health supplements)
- Vitamins and Minerals
- General Wellness
- Herbal and Natural Remedies
- Sport and Fitness Nutrition
Success story: Oxford Healthspan scaled its brand globally while maintaining customer trust
Oxford Healthspan, a UK-based nutraceutical company, partnered with ShipBob to streamline international fulfilment of its premium supplements. Facing challenges with shipping costs and long delivery times, the brand leveraged ShipBob’s distributed fulfilment network to store products closer to customers in the US and EU. As a result, Oxford Healthspan improved delivery speeds, reduced costs, and maintained the high-quality experience its health-conscious customers expect.
Success story: ARTAH achieved rapid growth and seamless omnichannel fulfilment with ShipBob
ARTAH is a London-based supplement brand offering a powerful line of vitamins, minerals, and botanicals for health concerns like gut health, skin health, and fertility. Experiencing explosive growth since launch, ARTAH turned to ShipBob for a scalable, tech-driven fulfilment solution that could support both DTC and B2B channels. ShipBob’s intuitive dashboard, real-time inventory management, and deep integrations (including Gorgias and Shopify) empowered ARTAH’s small team to manage fulfilment with ease and agility.
ShipBob services all customers benefit from
- Connectivity & integrations: ShipBob’s 50+ turnkey integrations with all major ecommerce channels and tools – including Shopify, Gorgias, Klaviyo, NetSuite, Loop, AfterShip, and more – enable you to grow your business smarter, faster, and stronger than ever before. In addition to the ShipBob App Store that lets you instantly connect your tech stack, you can also leverage ShipBob’s Develop API for custom builds.
- Transparent, cost-effective pricing: Unlike many 3PLs, ShipBob has easy-to-predict billing that makes it easy to plan for spend, without too many line items. ShipBob also negotiates rates with couriers and passes those savings on to you.
- Real-time visibility: Track shipments, orders, and inventory across locations from one dashboard. Manage one pool of inventory across sales channels and push stock levels back to your store so you don’t oversell.
- Full-stack fulfilment platform: With ShipBob, you get an all-in-one OMS, IMS, WMS, RMS, TMS, and analytics for a consolidated tech stack. ShipBob’s platform acts as a mini-ERP, being a single source of truth for your orders and inventory.
- Easy, comprehensive onboarding: We’ve onboarded thousands of ecommerce merchants and helped some of the fastest-growing brands scale effortlessly. Our implementation team sets you up for success with everything from configuring your ship options, to syncing your online store.
- Support for growth: ShipBob aims to be the last fulfilment partner you’ll need. Whether you’re shipping 1,000 orders per month or 200,000, we have you covered. With a large fulfilment network to scale into, new channels to expand into, and additional capabilities to tap into, you won’t outgrow ShipBob.
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How it works
How ShipBob goes from your online store to your customer’s door
1. Connect
Connect your store, import your products, then send us your inventory.
2. Store
We store your inventory in any combination of our fulfilment centers.
3. Ship
As soon as a customer places an order, we ship it from the nearest fulfilment centre.
FAQs about nutraceuticals fulfilment
Can ShipBob handle lot tracking and expiration date management?
ShipBob supports lot and expiration tracking when you provide batch/expiry data, enabling FEFO (First Expired, First Out) and FIFO (First In, First Out) fulfilment. This helps brands maintain quality control and allows for efficient tracking of inventory to support being fast to act in the event of a recall. Merchants can easily designate lots within the ShipBob dashboard, which triggers automated workflows for receiving and storage.
Does ShipBob offer temperature-controlled storage and certifications for specific product needs?
Depending on your needs, ShipBob offers fulfilment centres that are temperature-controlled, GFSI-certified, and/or GMP certified. Availability depends on your SKUs and region. Contact our team to discuss your specific requirements and available locations.
Can ShipBob integrate with my ecommerce platform and subscription management tools?
Absolutely. ShipBob integrates with dozens of leading ecommerce platforms, marketplaces, and subscription apps, including major ecommerce channels like Shopify and BigCommerce, as well as leading subscription solutions like Ordergroove and Recharge.
How does ShipBob support rapid product launches and new SKU setups?
ShipBob offers streamlined inbound receiving and intuitive SKU management tools to easily add new products, flavours, or bundles. For new product introductions, ShipBob can work with your team on timing to ensure orders are delivered when ready.
What kind of packaging or bundling options does ShipBob offer for supplement brands?
ShipBob supports virtual bundling, as well as custom branded packaging through the Customisation Suite for marketing inserts and gift notes to help you deliver a premium unboxing experience. Bring your own branded boxes or mailers — ShipBob stores them as SKUs and uses them for packing.
How does ShipBob handle seasonal spikes or sudden increases in order volume?
ShipBob’s flexible fulfilment network and scalable labour model allow us to quickly ramp up resources during peak seasons, product drops, or viral campaigns. This ensures your orders are fulfilled accurately and on time, without overwhelming your internal team.
Can ShipBob help with international shipping for nutraceuticals?
For international shipping, ShipBob offers DDP (Delivered Duties Paid) options to improve cross-border transparency and prevent surprise fees for customers upon delivery.
Are there any nutraceutical brands that have successfully scaled with ShipBob?
Yes, brands like Bloom Nutrition and ARTAH have partnered with ShipBob to achieve significant growth, streamline operations, and expand into new markets. Their success stories highlight ShipBob’s ability to support cost savings and omnichannel fulfilment for supplement brands.
Shipping costs are variable in nature, based on weight, dimensions, destination, service, and more. Request your custom quote here: https://www.shipbob.com/quote/.
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