Alabama Fulfilment Services

Lower your shipping costs and deliver faster

Most businesses use a local fulfilment centre to ship their products, but this becomes problematic if you are shipping to customers all over the country (or even outside of the country). Shipping costs are determined by the distance each package must travel, so if you’re always shipping from an Alabama fulfilment centre, then customers on the East or West Coast will have to pay a shipping premium to get your products. This puts you at a major disadvantage compared to big-box retailers that can offer cheaper shipping.

The solution? Distributing your inventory across multiple fulfilment centres closer to where your customers live. ShipBob has 9 fulfilment centres in the US (including one in the South in Tennessee), and you can ship from whichever you want based on where your customers are located.

Bringing your inventory closer to your customers leads to lower shipping costs, faster deliveries, and happier customers. You can save a ton of time and energy by outsourcing fulfilment, while offering more competitive shipping for your customers. And, when your customers see faster, cheaper shipping in their shopping cart, they’re more likely to convert and spend. It’s a win win!

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 carrier 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 carrier 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.