Central California Fulfilment Solutions

Expand your distribution network with ShipBob

For supply chain efficiency, many online brands turn to third-party logistics (3PL) provider like ShipBob, which offers an international fulfilment network, premium technology, and best-in-class support. 

One of the biggest mistakes online brands make is solely operating out of one fulfilment centre close to home. But if your customers live scattered across the US, then using one Central California fulfilment centre will result in higher shipping costs for customers that live outside of California.

ShipBob operates several fulfilment centres located in strategic regions across the US, as well as internationally to serve customers outside of the country. Rather than storing all your inventory in a California fulfilment centre location, you can store it in multiple fulfilment centres.

With strategic inventory allocation, shipment cross fewer shipping zones to reach their destination, which enables fast, affordable shipping for your customers. 

And since ShipBob’s entire network is powered by the same technology, you can access data and analytics from the ShipBob dashboard, view inventory levels across distribution centres in real time, optimise product allocation, filter orders by status, and much more.

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.