Order fulfillment beyond Shopify’s Smart Order Routing
In today’s landscape of growing ecommerce complexity, ensuring seamless Shopify order fulfillment while controlling costs is a high-stakes balancing act. Platforms like Shopify’s Smart Order Routing offer a great start by designating a single “best” location for fulfillment based on merchant-defined priorities.
This may sound efficient, but as your infrastructure grows—think multiple fulfillment nodes, increasing carrier options, and high-stakes SLAs. Order fulfillment quickly morphs into a game of compromises.
Enter Deposco’s Distributed Order Management (DOM) software, a solution designed not just to keep up with this complexity but to outpace it. Let’s unpack why Deposco takes the lead in optimizing Shopify order fulfillment.
The case for multi-factor sourcing: smarter from every angle
While Shopify sticks to a single-priority hierarchy for order routing, Deposco’s multi-variable sourcing engine flexes with your operational needs. What does that look like in action?
- Proximity vs. Stock Availability: Deposco combines distance from the customer with on-hand inventory and available-to-promise (ATP) data to find the fulfillment node that meets both speed and inventory constraints.
- Carrier SLA Alignment: Rather than simply routing orders, Deposco’s Shopify order fulfillment solution integrates real-time carrier performance metrics, ensuring shipping promises meet customer expectations.
- Cost-to-Serve Balance: Labor, shipping, and operational costs are weighed alongside quick delivery—protecting your margin without conceding speed.
- Split Shipment Avoidance: By assessing each line item’s optimal fulfillment location, Deposco keeps shipments consolidated whenever possible, saving costs and orchestrating efficiency.
This type of dynamic sourcing ramps up order accuracy to over 99% and trims the fat off traditional hierarchies, which can lead to costly errors.
Scaling rules without rebuilding a fulfillment workforce
It’s one thing to add logic to your order routing. Scaling that logic reliably as your business evolves? That’s a whole different animal. Deposco’s DOM system simplifies the seemingly impossible by enabling:
- Self-Maintaining Rule Automation: Forget second-guessing or manual rerouting—the DOM engine is designed to adapt and refine sourcing rules as new constraints arise.
- Labor Efficiency: As ecommerce execs like Deposco’s Director of Product Management Chase Dodge have noted, “Manual order routing saps time and inflates labor costs.” Deposco automates these tasks, sparking immediate ROI on your workforce.
No more compromises between fulfillment cost and speed
When tight on-time delivery promises need to co-exist with cost-efficiency, Shopify’s single-priority model starts to buckle. Deposco’s Shopify order fulfillment solution excels in those make-or-break decisions, hinging its value on:
- Real-Time Rate Advantage: With integrated shipping rate comparisons, Deposco’s DOM solution equips businesses to select cost-effective yet speedy delivery routes, saving 2-20% on shipping costs.
- Warehouse Capacity Safeguards: Overloading a fulfillment location can spell chaos. Deposco dynamically adjusts to warehouse location capacity, preventing bottlenecks and preserving your SLAs.
- Say Goodbye to Split Shipments: Why sacrifice customer experience or shipping expenses? Order consolidation wins here, too.
With AI-driven shipping management software, you can drive a 40% SLA improvement. Automatically shop carrier rates, add carriers with ease, import and manage orders effortlessly, and ship less air.
This balanced decision-making safeguards both your delivery guarantees and your profit margins.
Seamless integration: Shopify and Deposco
No customer confusion, all operational power
Now you might be thinking: does integrating Deposco with Shopify mean pivoting entirely away from the Shopify order routing investments I’ve already made? The answer is an emphatic “no.” Deposco fits snugly behind Shopify’s branded front-end experience, maintaining the customer-facing flow while powering your order fulfillment operations with enterprise-grade intelligence.
Orders are seamlessly routed from Shopify’s ecosystem into Deposco’s DOM, ensuring consistency for the customer while allowing your team to excel behind the curtain.
Elevate Shopify order fulfillment with Deposco
As your ecommerce network scales, simplification can no longer be your only strategy. Deposco’s Distributed Order Management system reimagines Shopify order fulfillment by putting intelligence at the core of your operations. It eliminates errors, trims unnecessary costs, and delivers on your promises—every single day.
Ready to explore what Deposco could do for your business? Check out our wealth of Shopify WMS resources or schedule a personalized consultation. Let’s turn your fulfillment challenges into success stories.
