ShipBob Adds B2B Fulfilment Suite and API Capabilities

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ShipBob, the global fulfilment platform for small and medium-sized eCommerce businesses, recently announced the launch of their B2B Fulfilment Suite and new API capabilities, enabling their merchants to sell throughout the entire B2B ecosystem, powering retail dropshipping and wholesale shipping, which will connect with hundreds of major retailers.

ShipBob achieves EDI compliance, which includes both a retail dropshipping solution that automates fulfilment and shipping of orders from retailers’ websites and an expanded B2B solution for brick-and-mortar purchases in the US to start.

The first integration built on the API is with market-leading EDI provider, SPS Commerce. This gives ShipBob the ability to fulfil orders according to each retailer’s compliance guidelines, including third-party shipping and retailer-compliant packing slips. The engineering of this new solution, paired with ShipBob’s infrastructure, will open up unprecedented speed to add and onboard new retail partners in a matter of days instead of months or longer with similar providers.

“Creating accessibility to thousands of merchants around the globe to a world-class direct-to-consumer fulfilment platform has been our focus since we founded the company,” said Dhruv Saxena, co-founder and CEO of ShipBob. “The launch of our B2B Suite, which pairs a turnkey solution with our direct-to-consumer capabilities, has not existed in the market until today. This opens up entirely new markets for our customers to connect with even more consumers and drive additional business this holiday season and beyond.”

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Retail Dropshipping

Retail dropshipping is direct-to-consumer fulfilment for orders placed on a retailer’s US eCommerce site that get fulfilled directly by ShipBob instead of by the retailer. This allows brands to partner with retailers including Target, Neiman Marcus, Macy’s, Nordstroms, Kroger, Nordstrom Rack, ULTA Beauty, and Bed Bath & Beyond, sell products on their online stores, and have ShipBob ship those orders to those end customers.

Retail Distribution

Merchants can also have ShipBob fulfil EDI compliant wholesale orders from retail partners, where ShipBob ships inventory to businesses that will fulfil orders directly to their customers. EDI automation means data from a purchase order will be automatically pulled into the ShipBob dashboard to create new orders, packing slips, and GS1 barcodes.

“With 24 fulfilment centres across the United States, we can now open up our B2B Fulfilment Suite across every region in the country,” said Todd Bills, Chief Logistics Officer of ShipBob. “This launch enables merchants to unlock a true multi-channel fulfilment solution that they need to compete and win against the millions of other options that consumers evaluate everyday.”