Inventory Placement

Send to one hub.
Ship from many.

Get Amazon-level transit times, with every SKU shipping from the hub closest to each customer.

Re-balancing that quietly shifts stock as buying patterns move across regions.

Margin you can keep, reinvest, or hand back to your customers as savings.

Jetpack Pro has been an absolute game-changer for us because it finally gave us real-time visibility into our entire supply chain. Having live analytics for costs, shipping times, and customer distribution all in one dashboard means we’re making faster, smarter decisions every single day.

Jarred Weinberger · Eli Health
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How Inventory Placement Works

Stock everywhere it belongs.

Up to 30%

Lower shipping costs. Send replenishment to one hub. We split it across the network, and every order ships from the warehouse closest to its buyer.

Seven inputs

MultiHub IQ weighs demand, velocity, geography, and four more signals to decide where every SKU belongs. Override it ahead of a promo anytime.

Faster, leaner

Stock closer to buyers means lower costs for you, faster transit for them, and margin to keep or share.

It's so great to know that you guys have us covered on that side of things and are proactively looking for ways to lower our costs!
Jenn Grelik, Henson Shaving
The Basics

What is inventory placement?

What it is

Inventory placement is the practice of splitting a brand’s stock across multiple warehouses so each order ships from the warehouse closest to the customer. Multi-warehouse fulfillment is the operational form of inventory placement: instead of every order shipping from one central hub, orders route to the regional warehouse that’s nearest to the destination zip code, cutting transit zones and shipping cost on every order.

Why it’s hard

The hard part is the math. Knowing how much of each SKU to send to each region requires reading sales velocity by zip code, anticipating shifts in demand, and rebalancing stock between warehouses before runouts happen. Most brands attempting this manually end up overstocked in one region and stocked out in another.

How Jetpack does it

Jetpack MultiHub IQ runs the inventory-placement math automatically. Send your replenishment to one Hero Hub; the algorithm decides how much of each SKU goes to which regional warehouse based on real demand patterns, then rebalances quietly as those patterns shift. The result: 1 to 3 day ground transit across the contiguous US without your team running the spreadsheets.

MultiHub IQ

Less guesswork, more margin.

MultiHub IQ models seven kinds of input to place every unit of inventory as close to its likely buyer as possible. Customers get their orders fast. You get lower shipping zones and margin to keep or pass on as savings.

Forecasting that learns the pattern

Historical sales by region, seasonality curves, SKU velocity, all updated continuously. Distribution decisions reflect what’s happening now, not what happened last quarter.

Allocation that picks the closest hub

Geographic order origins decide where each SKU lives. Buyers concentrated in the Southeast? That’s where stock for that SKU goes. The closer to the buyer, the lower the zone.

Re-balancing that keeps up

Our highly efficient continental line-haul network moves inventory between hubs automatically as demand shifts. Far lower costs than running your own freight, faster transit, and far less work to keep each region stocked.

Your inventory, placed across the US network

Volume Threshold

Is MultiHub IQ right for me?

The Jetpack Care Difference

Always fighting for you.

Distribution decisions touch margin in ways most ops levers don’t. Your Jetpack team re-tunes the algorithm with you as your business changes, so the savings keep landing.

Dedicated Client Care

A real human on Slack, email, or phone. Jetpack Care catches the misses before your team does.

Quarterly Optimizations

Every quarter we sit down with you and look for new ways to tighten the workflow, reduce cost, and improve fulfillment performance.

Bolt-On Logistics Team

Direct access to the Jetpack 3PL exec team. Decades of logistics experience on your side, every week.

Learn more about Jetpack Care →

Questions

Frequently asked.

A multi-hub warehouse network distributes inventory across multiple regional fulfillment centers, with each order shipping from the warehouse closest to the customer. Jetpack's warehouse network spans 60+ warehouses globally: 45+ across the US, 7 in Canada, 4 in the UK, 3 in the EU, 3 in Australia. MultiHub IQ uses machine learning to distribute your inventory based on where your customers actually order from, so each shipment travels the shortest possible distance. The result: up to 3X faster transit, up to 85% fewer shipments beyond zone 4, and up to 30% lower overall fulfillment costs vs. single-warehouse setups.

Three things set Jetpack apart: Jetpack Care, our IQ engine suite, and radical transparency. Jetpack Care: every brand gets a dedicated team on Slack that knows your products, workflows, and priorities, not a ticket queue, not a chatbot. Three proprietary IQ engines handle the rest: MultiHub IQ uses ML to position inventory across 60+ warehouses by customer geography; Carrier IQ optimizes carrier selection per package in real time; Delivery IQ monitors shipments in transit, flagging delays before your customer notices and auto-filing claims when eligible. All-in rate cards: no monthly, emergency, or processing fees. No long-term contracts: your inventory is yours to move whenever you want.

Inventory placement (also called inventory distribution or multi-warehouse fulfillment) is the practice of splitting your stock across multiple warehouses positioned closer to where your customers live. Done well, it reduces shipping zones, transit times, and carrier costs. Jetpack uses MultiHub IQ to handle the math automatically: you send your replenishment to one hub, and we distribute it across the network from there.

MultiHub IQ analyzes seven inputs before placing your stock: historical sales trends, current on-hand inventory, demand forecasts, SKU velocity and seasonality, geographic order origins, your fulfillment center preferences, and rebalance point thresholds. The result is a highly accurate, automated, and self-improving transfer plan that puts each SKU in the warehouse closest to the buyers most likely to order it.

Inventory distribution with MultiHub IQ becomes available at around 2,000 orders per month and typically pays for itself past 3,000. Below that volume, the storage costs at additional locations and inbound freight to get there outweigh the shipping savings. Before turning anything on, we model your real order data against the projected savings, and you see the math before you commit.

Yes. MultiHub IQ generates a transfer plan after you submit your inbound, and you can edit individual SKU placements until the shipment arrives at the Hero Hub. Common reasons to override: regional promotional campaigns, new product launches, seasonal demand shifts, or stocking a brand-new fulfillment center.

You can run multiple hubs internationally too. Jetpack's network covers 60+ warehouses across the US, EU, Australia, and beyond. Outside the US, MultiHub IQ's automated allocation isn't live yet, so you replenish each hub manually based on your forecasts. We help you set the right hub mix and reorder cadence wherever you sell.

You can start multi-hub fulfillment right out of the gate, using your past customer data to drive initial inventory placement. That said, we usually recommend four weeks of data collection before turning MultiHub IQ on, and it's generally around the 90-day mark when the best results from the machine-learning model start to land.

MultiHub IQ runs continuously. As real-time sales come in, the algorithm updates its placement decisions and triggers internal transfer orders (ITOs) to rebalance stock between hubs without you doing anything. A viral moment, a new launch, or a seasonal shift, all of it gets absorbed. Your Jetpack team is also here to collaborate with you in advance of large sales or in response to sudden, outsized shifts in demand, and to help manually rebalance if ever necessary.

No. The Jetpack dashboard shows real-time inventory by SKU and by warehouse. Every internal transfer between hubs is tracked, every transfer plan is editable before it runs, and you see what's where at all times. If anything, you see more, not less.

Manual allocation costs people, time, and judgment, and most brands' judgment isn't backed by demand forecasts modeled against geographic order origins. We've seen many brands come to us who had a dedicated planner manually calculating which SKUs to send where; the math is hard to do well. MultiHub IQ moves that burden off your team without giving up control.

Request a quote or book a call. We'll review your order volume, buyer geography, and SKU mix, then model whether multi-hub distribution will save you money before we propose anything. No pressure, no hard sell. If the math doesn't work at your volume, we'll tell you.

Multi-warehouse fulfillment is an order-fulfillment model where a brand's inventory is split across several warehouses so each order can ship from the warehouse closest to the customer. It's the operational form of inventory placement: instead of every order originating from one central hub and crossing multiple shipping zones to reach buyers, the order routes to a regional warehouse near the destination zip code. The result is lower shipping zones (zones 1 to 4 for most orders instead of 5 to 8), faster transit times (1 to 3 days ground instead of 4 to 5), and lower carrier costs on every shipment. Jetpack runs multi-warehouse fulfillment across a 60+ warehouse network, powered by MultiHub IQ for automated stock placement and rebalancing.

Inventory placement is about where your stock physically sits across multiple warehouses, optimized so each order ships from the closest one. Inventory management is the broader practice of tracking inventory levels, forecasting demand, and managing replenishment cycles. Inventory management is typically handled by software (NetSuite, Cin7, Katana, Skubana); inventory placement is a 3PL operational service that depends on the 3PL having a multi-warehouse network to place stock across. Brands often run both in parallel: management software tracks the counts, the 3PL physically positions the stock. Jetpack handles the placement side, integrating with the major inventory management platforms via API.

Roughly 80% of your revenue comes from 20% of your SKUs. In fulfillment terms: find that top 20% and treat it differently. Keep it in stock, spread it across warehouses close to your customers, and let the slow movers live in fewer locations. It’s the logic behind Jetpack’s MultiHub IQ, which places your fastest movers across the network based on where they actually sell.

Ready?

Let’s talk.

A short call. We’ll look at your order volume, your buyer geography, and tell you straight up whether multi-hub will save you money. If the math doesn’t work at your volume yet, we’ll tell you that too.