Table of Contents ** Minutes Key metrics About Geneva10 Fulfillment Comparing ShipBob with other fulfillment networks Expanding from one ShipBob fulfillment center to three Working with the right partner pays dividends  Geneva10 Fulfillment and ShipBob, a year and a half later  Branching into new geographic regions with ShipBob  Partnering with a best-in-class team  Embracing continual operational improvements  Leveraging ShipBob’s merchant base to scale  What’s next for Geneva10  Learn how Geneva10 Fulfillment partnered with ShipBob to scale their oper ..read more

Table of Contents ** Minutes What is an FDA registered warehouse? When should your warehouse be FDA certified? How to register your warehouse with the FDA ShipBob is a 3PL that’s FDA registered ShipBob can help ship your products Safety as a #1 priority Gain a logistics partner, not just a warehouse Have your own warehouse? Optimize it with a WMS What’s the difference between a t-shirt and a bag of chips? Besides one being able to satisfy hunger cravings, their requirements for inventory storage are quite different. The ecommerce supply chain for products that are to be consumed, applied ..read more

Table of Contents ** Minutes What is fill rate? Types of fill rate What is the fill rate formula? Why calculate fill rate? What is a good fill rate? Maximize your fill rate with ShipBob Get started with ShipBob’s WMS Fill rate FAQs Over the last few years, customer expectations have sky rocketed. In a world where customers expect to get their orders fast, an efficient fulfillment process is vital for the success of any ecommerce business. As a growing ecommerce business, you can’t afford to have delivery delays resulting from backorders and stockouts. As a result, the order filling proce ..read more

Every merchant dreams of being able to sell their products quickly. However, sales alone aren’t enough to grow your business – let alone keep it afloat.   To keep your business going, it needs to be profitable. That means you must see a sufficient return on your inventory investment. In other words, you need to make more money selling your inventory than you spent to acquire, store, and fulfill orders with it.   That’s why you need to closely measure metrics such as gross margin return on investment (GMROI). By calculating and tracking your GMROI, you can make more informed ..read more

Warehousing is expensive. Setting up and maintaining a warehouse makes up a significant portion of your overall ecommerce operational costs and has a heavy impact on your bottom line. If you’re considering renting or buying a warehouse, you need to keep these expenses in mind. Optimizing your ecommerce warehouse costs will help your brand increase profitability but it can be challenging to do. That’s why we’ve put together this comprehensive guide to give you a better understanding of the various warehouse costs, how warehouse pricing is calculated, and whether buying or renting would be a bet ..read more

Picking is at the heart of any ecommerce fulfillment strategy. When orders are picked efficiently and accurately, it allows you to seamlessly move on to other fulfillment processes (such as packing and shipping), and minimize lead times to get orders to customers faster.   As such, many ecommerce businesses constantly seek to optimize their picking processes and figure out the optimal picking strategies. While some brands rely on manual picking processes and others fully automate picking, many brands opt for a hybrid order picking strategy to get the best of both worlds.  In this art ..read more

Think of how hard it is to move in a crowded space. Now imagine trying to stow inventory, pick products, and pack orders in a crowded warehouse – it’s a recipe for disaster.   While ecommerce businesses want to make sure that their warehouse is well-stocked, clutter and crowding in your warehouse space – also known as warehouse congestion – can lead to inefficiencies, safety hazards, and fulfillment errors.  To keep your workers safe and your operations streamlined, it’s important to avoid warehouse congestion.   In this article, we’ll take a closer look at what causes ..read more

Ecommerce businesses need to make the best use of their warehouse space to minimize costs and increase their bottom line. There are several ways to do this and one of the best ways is to optimize your warehouse setup to improve your warehouse space utilization. Storing as much inventory as possible may hinder warehouse efficiency as workers struggle to move between aisles and retrieve items. As such, ecommerce businesses may consider warehouse slotting strategies like slotting to maximize storage space and efficiency. But what is dynamic slotting and how can you implement it in your warehouse ..read more

Imagine this: your ecommerce business is thriving, and you decide to expand into a new warehouse. But once you do, you realize that you don’t know what’s going on with half of your stock. How are you supposed to monitor your inventory levels if you can’t be in two places at once?   In this situation, a virtual warehouse can help. By creating and using a virtual warehouse, growing brands can achieve a holistic inventory view, and track and manage inventory across all their warehouses and channels in just a few clicks.   In this article, we’ll discuss what a virtual warehouse ..read more

Table of Contents ** Minutes What is economic order quantity (EOQ) Why you should calculate EOQ (+ use case examples) Economic order quantity formula + calculation example Limitations & challenges of the economic order quantity model  Other factors that can optimize inventory Take the guesswork out of EOQ with ShipBob Economic order quantity FAQs When reordering products, many businesses place orders based on what they need at the exact moment. Instead, they should optimize the way they order and pay for products by using the Economic Order Quantity formula (EOQ).  The EOQ ..read more