US Fulfilment Centres

Warehousing across the US and beyond!

Broadening your customer base across the US presents a huge opportunity for your business, but it can also raise unique challenges that impact your order fulfilment strategy and growth potential.

To do this successfully, you need to be able to ship across the country — from Portland, Maine and Los Angeles, California; to Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana — quickly and affordably.

Say your fulfilment centre is located in New York City. Orders from East Coast customers will be relatively inexpensive to ship since your fulfilment centre is located on the East Coast. But what about when someone places an order from the West Coast? Those packages will cross more shipping zones, will be much more expensive to ship, and will take longer to deliver.

That is, unless you use multiple fulfilment centres. ShipBob’s unique distributed inventory model consists of storing your inventory in fulfilment centres located in different areas of the US, so your products never have to travel too far.

Each order is automatically shipped from the fulfilment centre closest to the customer, and the result is lower shipping costs and faster deliveries.

Distributed inventory

With ShipBob’s network of fulfilment centres, you can strategically split your inventory across our locations to get your products from point A to point B more quickly and affordably. Storing inventory near your customers helps reduce the shipping zones and costs associated with shipping orders to faraway destinations.

Distributed inventory also helps you stay competitive by offering fast shipping to your customers. When an order is placed, ShipBob’s algorithm automatically selects the warehouse and courier that will give you the quickest turnaround at the best price. This strategy has helped our merchants bring 13% savings to their bottom line.

Order management

At ShipBob, we track your orders from A to Z. Filter orders by status, search for specific orders, see a quick timeline view of where your order is in the fulfilment process (e.g. when an order is picked, packed, or shipped), easily find shipping-related information (e.g., weights, dimensions, or courier service), and get a quick snapshot of any orders that require action.

With order management software for your direct-to-consumer and wholesale shipments, you can manage subscriptions, make changes to your orders post-purchase, map your store’s shipping options to ShipBob, and automatically share tracking information with your customers.

Reporting and analytics

To provide you with visibility into our operations and performance, and also hold ourselves accountable, ShipBob’s free analytics tool is packed with charts to help you with everything from year-end reporting, to better supply chain decision-making.

Data can be a competitive advantage, and our reports show an analysis of which fulfilment centres you should stock, days of inventory left before you run out, impact of promotions on stock levels, each shipping method’s average cart value, shipping cost, and days in transit, your fulfilment cost per order, storage cost per unit, and much more.