Shoppers expect orders to arrive quickly, and shipping everything from one warehouse makes that hard and costly. A single location is far from most customers, so parcels travel long distances and shipping costs climb. Distributed warehousing solves this by holding inventory in several locations, so each order ships from a site near the customer. This guide explains how multi-location fulfillment works, from placing stock in the right locations to routing each order and keeping inventory accurate across every site. What is Distributed Warehousing Distributed warehousing is the practice of holding inventory in more than one location and fulfilling each order from the most suitable one.