Supplement brands live and die on compliance and repeat purchase. Fulfillment EZ handles lot tracking, expiration dating and FEFO pick logic as standard, and fulfills subscription cycles and DTC orders from the same inventory pool.
- Lot number and expiration capture at receiving
- FEFO picking so the oldest sellable stock ships first
- Expiry-risk reporting for near-expiry stock
- Recharge, Skio and Shopify subscription support
The fulfillment problems specific to supplements
A supplement SKU is not one thing — it is a series of lots with different manufacture and expiration dates, each carrying its own traceability obligation. Ship the wrong lot and you either strand near-expiry inventory or send a customer a bottle with three weeks of shelf life.
Heat is the other silent problem. Softgels, probiotics and gummies degrade in an uncontrolled warehouse in Southern California summers, and the damage shows up as one-star reviews rather than as a warehouse incident report.
- Lot-level traceability required for recalls and audits
- Expiration control to protect shelf life at delivery
- Temperature sensitivity in gummies, softgels and probiotics
- High subscription mix with tight cycle windows
How we fulfill supplement brands
Every inbound receipt captures lot number and expiration date, and pick logic runs FEFO so first-expiring stock always goes out first. Expiry-risk reporting flags inventory that will become unsellable before your velocity can clear it, while there is still time to promote or bundle it.
If a lot needs to be pulled, we can identify every order that contained it and quarantine remaining on-hand units the same day, which turns a potential company-wide crisis into a targeted action.
- Fast inventory turns to protect shelf life
- Order-level lot traceability for recall response
- Tamper-evident and seal-integrity checks at pack
- Subscription cycle pre-kitting for monthly cohorts
Scaling a supplement brand's operation
Supplement growth is usually subscription growth, which means volume concentrates around billing dates rather than spreading evenly. We plan labor against your billing calendar and pre-kit cohorts so cycles ship in days.
As you add SKUs, flavors and bundle sizes, kitting happens in-house rather than through a separate co-packer, so a new three-pack becomes a sellable SKU in days instead of weeks.