As an ecommerce business, managing fulfilment logistics can be extremely challenging. Between managing a warehouse, tracking inventory, responding to customers, and staying competitive in the industry, there’s no shortage of logistics tasks that will constantly take up your time, money, and energy.

That’s why many fast-growing ecommerce businesses choose to partner with a 3PL like ShipBob that offers logistics solutions. Read on to learn more.

What are logistics solutions?

Logistics solutions for ecommerce businesses consists of the management of the supply chain. This includes everything from storing inventory in a warehouse, to picking and packing services, to automated shipping and returns management.

Logistics solution partners help your ecommerce business scale faster

Also known as a 3PL, a logistics solution partner can help ecommerce business scale their business faster by taking time-consuming logistics off their plate. Here are the benefits of partnering with a logistics solutions partner.

1. Build strong relationships

A well-established 3PL has partnerships with major shipping couriers, leading ecommerce platforms, and ecommerce solutions to help you optimise your ecommerce supply chain, expand your tech stack, all while tracking inventory and orders from a single dashboard.

2. Reduce logistics costs

Rather than keep this fulfilment and shipping in-house and invest in a warehouse, you can save on logistics costs by partnering with a logistics solutions partner that offers a growing fulfilment network. This can help reduce costs such as rent, equipment, and labour.

3. Optimise supply chain workflows

3PLs are supply chain experts, which means they already know how to optimise your supply chain and are continuously implementing new technology to improve ecommerce supply chain processes. And unlike an on-demand warehousing company that just provides a technology platform to find warehouses that have excess space inside them, 3PL focuse solely on the supply chain

4. Tap into 3PL industry experience

Logistics companies are always up to date on the latest industry trends and technology. This way, they closely support their merchants by finding new ways to optimise logistics operations. 

Why ShipBob is the industry leader in logistics and fulfilment

ShipBob is a best-in-class fulfilment and logistics solution that has helped hundreds of direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands scale and shipped thousands of products all over the globe. We combine cutting-edge technology, deep industry knowledge, and a robust infrastructure to provide Amazon-level logistics to growing ecommerce businesses of all sizes.

1. Distribution across the country

ShipBob offers global fulfilment solutions with fulfilment locations across the globe. By splitting inventory across multiple fulfilment centres, your products will be closer to your end customers, which means two things: faster delivery times for them and reduced shipping costs for you.

2. Tech-enabled

ShipBob is a tech-enabled 3PL with proprietary technology that includes built-in inventory management tools, advanced data and analytics, and integrations with all of the major ecommerce platforms to help optimise your logistics strategy. If you’re looking for a more custom solutions, ShipBob offers Developer API to plug your existing tech stack into our technology.

3. Affordable shipping rates

With your inventory distributed and your shipping optimised by our technology, you can reap the rewards of more cost-effective shipping (and grow faster too). Many of our partners are able to significantly cut costs while at the same time increasing delivery speed.

One of our partners, TB12, a supplement company founded by Tom Brady, saved 25% on their shipping costs after joining with us, while simultaneously experiencing 75% growth.

“We need to deliver quickly and inexpensively. Since switching to ShipBob from our previous 3PL, our fulfilment cost on comparable orders went down by 25%.”

Michael Peters, VP of E-Commerce Operations at TB12

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By choosing ShipBob as your third-party fulfilment provider, you’ll be able to save on costs, fulfil orders faster, and keep customers happy.

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Logistics Solutions FAQs

Logistics solutions can help online businesses grow faster. Here are some answers to common questions about logistics solutions providers.

What are logistics solutions?

Logistics solutions for ecommerce businesses consists of the management of the supply chain. This includes everything from storing inventory in a warehouse, to picking and packing services, to automated shipping and returns management.

How can you improve your logistics?

You can greatly improve logistics by simply outsourcing logistics to a tech-enabled 3PL. This way, you can tap into a robust fulfilment infrastructure and technology, so you can stay competitive while saving time and money on logistics.

Which is the best logistic solution?

ShipBob is a best-in-class fulfilment and logistics solution that has helped hundreds of ecommerce businesses scale and shipped thousands of products all over the globe. We combine cutting-edge technology, deep industry knowledge, and a robust infrastructure to provide Amazon-level logistics for growing ecommerce businesses of all sizes.