SAP Order Management foundation

ShipBob is the leading global omnifulfillment platform designed for businesses of all sizes, providing them access to best-in-class supply chain capabilities. The ShipBob platform provides merchants with a single view of their business and customers across all of their sales channels and enables them to manage products, inventory, orders, and shipments, and leverage real-time analytics and reporting. ShipBob enables merchants to optimize fulfillment operations in their own facilities with ShipBob's WMS (ShipBob's proprietary warehouse management system), or outsource it completely to have their orders picked, packed, and shipped for them at over 60 fulfillment centers across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. By providing proprietary fulfillment software, comprehensive support, and dozens of tech and retail partnerships, ShipBob enables brands to build a scalable, affordable fulfillment strategy and fulfill orders with seamless omnichannel connectivity.

Distributed Order Management (DOM) systems have become critical to supply chain execution, notably in omnichannel fulfillment but in many additional applications and industry sectors as well. DOMS can be used to automate, optimize and orchestrate order fulfillment processes, based on granular visibility to orders, inventory, service requirements, costs and constraints. DOM can be defined as a software system that provides integrated fulfillment planning and execution across multi-echelon, multi-node, multi-partner, and multi-channel supply chain networks. Traditional Order Management Systems (OMS) are order processing-centric. DOM systems, by contrast, are order fulfillment-centric. Distributed Order Management determines how to source an order in a way that meets customer service commitments at the lowest total cost or in a way that meets some other objectives of the company.