Stock and money are usually tracked in two separate worlds. Operations knows where the units are; finance knows what was spent. The connection between them — what this specific product cost to get onto a shelf and out of a door — is the thing neither system holds on its own.
Supply chain management here means joining those worlds. ShipBob, Cin7, and Shopify each hold part of the movement and part of the cost; bringing them together is what turns a unit price into a landed cost.
The challenges
- Landed cost is an estimate
- Freight, duty, and fulfilment fees sit outside the product record, so margin is calculated on unit cost plus a guess.
- Stock counts disagree
- Each system holds its own position, they drift, and the discrepancy is found by a customer or a stocktake.
- Fulfilment costs arrive detached
- A 3PL invoice covers thousands of shipments in one total, with no route back to the products it fulfilled.
- Freight is allocated crudely
- A shipping invoice spread evenly across a container makes light, cheap items look expensive and heavy ones look free.
- Capital sits in the wrong stock
- Without velocity data against cost data, slow movers are only obvious once the cash is already in them.
How it works
- Connected platforms
- ShipBob, Cin7, and Shopify integrated into one inventory and cost picture, with movements flowing continuously.
- Cost attachment
- Freight, duty, and fulfilment fees allocated to the products that incurred them — by weight, volume, or value, whichever reflects reality.
- Landed cost per SKU
- A maintained cost per unit that includes everything it took to get there, updated as new shipments land.
- Reconciled stock positions
- One position across locations and channels, with discrepancies surfaced as exceptions rather than absorbed.
- Movement history
- Every unit's path from purchase order to fulfilment, so cost questions have an audit trail.
Margin calculated on unit cost isn't margin. It's the number before the expensive parts.
What changes
- Margin you can price against
- True landed cost per product, so pricing and promotion decisions rest on the full number.
- Fulfilment costs become visible
- You can see which products are expensive to ship, not just expensive to buy.
- Fewer stock surprises
- One reconciled position instead of several that quietly disagree.
- Working capital in the right places
- Cost and velocity in the same view, so slow stock is obvious while it still matters.
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