FBA Precautions

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) refers to the delivery and transport of goods to Amazon's overseas FBA warehouse. It is the delivery service provided by Amazon and also a service that logistics service providers use air freight, sea freight and express to help sellers to transport goods from China to Amazon warehouses in the United States and the United Kingdom, which is also one of Amazon's three major businesses.

There are three main modes of Fulfillment by Amazon: air, sea and international express.

1. Air freight

Air freight refers to a logistics method in which freight forwarders deliver goods by air to the destination country through their own channels, and then the freight forwarder's cooperative delivery agency in the destination country delivers goods. Fulfillment by Amazon will be relatively more expensive, and there is a fixed flight time. It takes about 10 days to Europe by air. In addition, its delivery time is relatively long because airlines need to round up or arrange the bulk cargo in order to save transportation costs, which will delay some time. In terms of safety, it is relatively safer to use air transport.

2. Sea freight

Sea freight is much cheaper than air freight. Therefore, many Amazon sellers would use sea freight. However, the logistics timeliness of sea transportation will be affected by weather and other factors, resulting in a very long transportation time. For example, it will take about 45 days to the United States, and longer to Europe.

3. International express

Compared with sea transportation and air transportation, international express has the shortest transportation time. Some of them only need one week to get to Europe, but the price also varies according to different logistics providers. When choosing express delivery, we should pay attention to the ability of customs clearance. If the ability of customs clearance is weak, it may affect the warehousing of goods.

What should be prepared before using FAB?

1. Select the products to be delivered by FBA. You need to judge whether the goods can be put into storage, and whether they are prohibited by Amazon logistics, and estimate the quantity to be sent to warehouse.

2. When you use FBA, you should first select "disabled" in both MWS label service and Stickerless Commingled Inventory on the Setting - Fulfillment By Amazon page.

3. Prepare the printer and label paper.

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