A Bill of Materials also known as a BOM is a complex statement of information about products in manufacturing. As a manufacturer or a distributor working for a small ecommerce business, BOMs provide organization for sales and product documentation. You need to know how to read and understand…

The title may sound brutal, but excess inventory is no trivial matter, as any retailer experiences eventually. Whether or not it’s worse than a stockout is debatable, but one thing is for sure: inventory that isn’t sold is cash that’s tied up. Inventory is most likely your biggest investment.…

Sometimes, a mission can turn into a business and then an entire community. Check out our Customer Spotlight on WallsNeedLove, a business centered around expressing art on the most personal of spaces: the walls of our homes. Image via Emily A Clark

We’ve covered in-house and just-in-time fulfillment, as well as outsourced fulfillment, each with its own positives and negatives, but now we’re moving to a completely hands-off form of fulfillment — dropshipping. To some, it sounds like a pipe dream. No managing inventory? No actual fulfillment? That’s the essence of…

Isn’t fulfillment fulfilling? Depending on who you ask, the answer is questionable. But one thing is for sure: a fulfillment process that runs smoothly and efficiently is definitely fulfilling. And sometimes, it’s best to DIY. That’s at the core of the following two fulfillment models — in-house and just-in-time. Here’s…