Our clients \u2013 online retailers \u2013 are able to deliver goods to customers worldwide and offer next-day delivery to all major cities. This is thanks to our network of fulfillment centers<\/a>. Located on three continents, they use cutting-edge order fulfillment software<\/a> and cloud computing to achieve near-100% pick and pack<\/a> accuracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you might have guessed, \u201cfulfillment center\u201d refers to the vast buildings, to which goods are transported in bulk, and then stored, picked, packed and shipped to individual customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So far, so simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But even within the logistics industry, there\u2019s some confusion about the distinction between fulfillment centers, on the one hand, and fulfillment houses, on the other. So\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n The term \u201cfulfillment house\u201d refers to companies <\/em>that process, store and distribute customer orders on behalf of their clients, and are responsible for handling any returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n James and James is a global fulfillment house. In fact, we rank among the fastest-growing fulfillment houses, thanks to the sophistication of our fulfillment centers \u2013 the places in which we store, pack and deliver goods to customers who have ordered them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both of the terms \u2013 fulfillment house and fulfillment center \u2013 gained currency relatively recently, in the mid-90s, and they sound fairly similar. But as we have seen, the distinction in meaning between these terms is significant \u2013 the former refers to an entire company, the latter to their individual facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to know more about using a fulfillment house? Contact us<\/a> today for a free, no-obligation chat about how our order fulfillment services<\/a> can help your business.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s the difference? Our clients \u2013 online retailers \u2013 are able to deliver goods to customers worldwide and offer next-day delivery to all major cities. This is thanks to our network of fulfillment centers. Located on three continents, they use…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":24282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecommerce-insights"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"James Dillon","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Liberty-7965_Sky_RT-scaled.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Liberty-7965_Sky_RT-scaled.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"J&J Global Fulfilment","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/author\/james-and-james\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is a fulfillment house?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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