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Shipping can make or break an ecommerce business. The cost of shipping and speed of delivery are some of the most important factors that your customers will consider when deciding whether or not to buy from you. The problem many ecommerce businesses face is not being able to bring down their inventory carrying costs so that either their customers aren’t buying or they’re harming their margin by eating the cost.

If you have a single San Jose fulfilment centre but are frequently shipping to customers on the East Coast or in the South, then you’re probably overpaying for shipping. So how do you bring down costs? With distributed inventory.

ShipBob is an ecommerce fulfilment solution that offers access to multiple fulfilment centres, including one in the Bay Area, to let you store your inventory in different regions (hence the term distributed inventory). So, for example, if half your customers live on the East Coast and half on the West Coast, you could split your inventory between two fulfilment centres on each coast.

This would reduce how far your products must travel to reach your customers by shipping to lower shipping zones. That means more affordable rates and quicker transit times. With lower costs, you can offer 2-day shipping to your customers at a decent margin — and you don’t need a single San Jose fulfilment centre to do it.

What ShipBob customers in the Bay Area say

ShipBob works with many customers all over the Bay Area. With a fulfilment centre in California, ShipBob serves the West Coast very efficiently, while offering San Jose brands access to fulfilment centres all over the United States. Hear from one ShipBob customer with the founder based in the Bay Area below.

“We now save a lot of money and ship faster based on distributed inventory. So far, we are shipping out of two of ShipBob’s fulfilment centres. We use the locations that optimise and reduce the distance travelled to get our products into our customers’ hands faster. When shipping glass bottles, especially in the winter, the longer the transit time, the more likely it is to break.”

Lindsay Louise, Fulfilment & Retail Manager at Synchro

San Francisco-based ecommerce business Ample Foods transitioned to ShipBob from a competing 3PL and increased their 2-day ground shipping coverage by 103% while saving a lot of money by using ShipBob’s distributed inventory model.

“From expanding into a second ShipBob fulfilment centre, we are excited to be able to offer 65% of our customers with 2-day shipping, up from 32% by only having a single West Coast facility. Soon, this will be 100%. Not only is this better for our customers but we also gain a 13% savings to our bottom line.”

Pablo Gabatto, Business Operations Manager at Ample Foods

3PL order fulfilment services in San Jose

ShipBob is a 3PL (third-party logistics) provider that offers full-stack fulfilment services built specifically for ecommerce businesses. Setting up fulfilment with ShipBob involves two simple steps: First, connect your store to our technology. Then, ship your products to our fulfilment centres.

Once you sync your store to ShipBob’s platform, we receive an automatic notification when an order is placed. Our technology forwards the picking list to the fulfilment centre closest to the customer for faster, cheaper shipping. Then, our team picks, packs, and ships the order.

ShipBob’s platform comes with a full-suite inventory and order management system built in. Here are some features you get working with ShipBob.

Always have enough product in stock

Running out of stock for a product that was just ordered on your site can result in a late delivery (which means an unhappy customer) or lost sale. ShipBob handles warehousing and provides a wealth of helpful features like letting you calculate safety stock and set reorder points, so you are automatically notified when you need to reorder product and you’ll always be able to track inventory levels.

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Monitor order volume

Monitoring order volume is a crucial metric to gauge the health of an ecommerce business. With ShipBob’s order management platform, you can see all orders past and present, track the progress of packages that have been shipped in real-time, and find specific orders quickly.

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Track trends and forecast inventory

It’s not enough to keep track of order volume. You also need to know what people are ordering, so you can perform accurate inventory forecasting and understand buying trends. ShipBob generates analytical reports that will inform and improve your business strategy, which will save you many hours on inventory accounting.

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Choosing th best 3PL for your San Jose ecommerce fulfilment

ShipBob isn’t your average 3PL. We not only save you the time and hassle of dealing with shipping and logistics; We want to transform your business by expanding your reach and helping you offer faster, cheaper shipping. Here’s what we’ve done for some of the ecommerce merchants that work with us.

Offer cheaper 2-day shipping

The ability to offer customers affordable two-day shipping is a game-changer for many ecommerce businesses. Don’t take our word for it: Men’s grooming company BAKblade partnered with ShipBob and saw a significant spike in conversions after offering 2-day shipping. They went on to grow 291% in the three years after partnering with ShipBob.

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Expand your national and global reach

WIth ShipBob’s infrastructure at your disposal, you can start shipping fast and cheap to any location in the US (or even the world).

One of our customers, The Adventure Challenge chose ShipBob for not just California fulfilment services but to expand all over the world. Today, they’re using ShipBob’s fulfilment centres in the US, Australia, Canada, the UK, and the EU.

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Give your customers a unique unboxing experience

A memorable unboxing experience can make a huge difference in building your brand. Doris Sleep, a luxury pillow brand, worked with ShipBob to ship their eco-friendly pillows along with a branded sticker in every order. Doris Sleep’s top-notch delivery experience lets them maintain their brand identity, even when the retail fulfilment process is happening outside of their four walls.

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Enrich fulfilment with integrations

When you partner with ShipBob, we grow with you. ShipBob easily plugs into other applications and works with other vendors across the ecommerce landscape. You can find partners to improve your store and scale your business in our partner network.

Sync ShipBob with your ecommerce platforms including:

Shipping platforms include:

Is it the right time for your business to outsource order fulfilment to a 3PL?

Any ecommerce business with a decent order volume can benefit from outsourcing fulfilment. 3PLs can accelerate your growth, save you time, and broaden your shipping capabilities. However, some businesses have greater need than others. If you recognise any of the following signs, then hiring a 3PL can truly transform your business:

  • You don’t have the warehouse space to properly store and organise your inventory.
  • Your pick/pack/ship team is making too many fulfilment errors.
  • You spend too much of your budget and resources on shipping and order fulfilment and want lower shipping costs.
  • You don’t have the industry knowledge or inclination to scale in-house fulfilment by purchasing land or leasing a warehouse.
  • You have a San Jose fulfilment warehouse and cannot offer customers across the country affordable, fast shipping.


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