The five stages of subscription-box fulfillment — warehousing, kitting, pick, pack, ship — are one continuous operation, not five separate services.
The boundaries between them matter only because that is where reliability is won or lost.
Warehousing for a subscription program is SKU plus batch plus lot storage with quantity, expiration, and location updated continuously.
Every inbound receipt is booked against the specific batch that arrived.
Every pick decrements the right batch’s quantity, not just the SKU total.
Kitting is where most programs quietly over-pay.
Drop-in kitting of three to eight components is baseline.
More complex builds add layered packaging, folded inserts, tissue wrapping, or per-tier assortment variance.
The question that exposes kitting pricing is direct: how many components per box before the 3PL re-quotes.
Subscription pick is variant-aware or nothing.
A subscriber can be in Tier B this month and Tier A next month, and can have per-account preferences that override the tier default.
Pick logic must resolve tier plus subscriber preferences plus cycle-specific variants into a single pick pattern per box.
Pack is where the box earns its unboxing moment.
Every brand touch is a decision the 3PL has to execute consistently — the same tissue fold on box 1 and box 12,000.
Cost is per-touch, not per-box.
Ship is the final stage and the most visible one to the subscriber.
A single-warehouse operation compresses the entire cycle’s outbound into a defined day-range with a single carrier handoff window.
For programs under roughly 50,000 boxes a month, single-warehouse hubs beat distributed networks on both reliability and unit economics.
Ship Velocity runs all five stages under one Miami roof.
Ground shipping reaches roughly 90 percent of the US in two business days and 99 percent in three.
About Ship Velocity — a Miami-based third-party logistics partner.
Velocity Worldwide LLC operates a purpose-built fulfillment center at 8292 NW 21 ST, Doral, FL 33122, serving direct-to-consumer ecommerce brands, Amazon FBA sellers, subscription-box operators, and wholesale and retail vendors from a single 100,000-plus square-foot facility.
Coverage and reach.
Ground shipping from the Miami hub reaches roughly 90 percent of the continental United States population within two business days and 99 percent within three.
Cross-border programs into Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Latin America route through the same facility.
International freight ships to 200-plus countries via UPS Worldwide, FedEx International, and DHL Express.
How we work.
Engagements are month-to-month with no long-term contracts, no storage minimums, and per-touch pricing itemized in the fee schedule.
Every account is assigned a named account manager who stays for the life of the relationship.
Onboarding a new client typically takes five to ten business days from inventory receive through pilot cutover.
Published performance standards. 99.8 percent pick-pack accuracy on a twelve-month rolling basis, 24-hour order-to-dispatch service level for orders placed before the daily cutoff, sub-one-percent short-ship rate, 99.5 percent on-time carrier hand-off, and sub-half-percent damage claims rate.
Every metric is reported to clients monthly.
Get in touch.
Prospects can request a quote at shipvelocity.com or email [email protected] for a same-business-day response with pricing, references, and an operations plan tailored to the program.