FBA warehouses need to fill in arrival time! Amazon announces new regulations

Amazon in the United States recently released an announcement in the background, stating that starting from April 24, third-party sellers will need to fill in the estimated delivery time when sending FBA replenishment shipments!

According to official sources, after the new rules are implemented, if third-party sellers want to use non-cooperative carriers to deliver small packages or LTL shipments, they must fill in a delivery window when creating the shipping process (that is, "send to Amazon"). For shipments shipped to FBA within the United States, a delivery period of up to 7 days is required, while shipments shipped from abroad are subject to a 14-day delivery period.

This requirement is still relatively difficult for sellers to meet, because there are too many transfer links and processes in the process of domestic freight forwarding to FBA, and it is difficult to accurately judge when the goods can be delivered. There may be a hundred kinds of accidents that may cause delays when the goods are sent to the freight forwarder in China, such as missing the ship, the next ship being full, and there being dock strikes and marches in the United States. It can only be said that the 14-day window period given by Amazon is better, but it is not ample.

As for the delivery window, Amazon’s original intention is good. If Amazon can know in advance when the seller’s replenishment will arrive, it will have enough time to allocate warehouse capacity and arrange the work of warehousing and putting the goods on the shelves, which will indeed greatly reduce the seller’s replenishment time. However, in actual operation, it brings greater uncertainty to sellers.

Fortunately, as long as the window period has not arrived, sellers can update the estimated delivery window period of the shipment at any time in the "send to Amazon" process. In this way, sellers can keep in touch with the freight forwarder at any time to understand where their goods are, and then update the estimated delivery time in the background in a timely manner, so as to avoid violations to the greatest extent.

If the shipment fails to arrive at the warehouse within the window period filled in by the seller, whether it is early or late, Amazon will mark these shipments and remind the seller. Amazon did not use too many harsh words here, it is just a reminder, so I guess at least during the trial period, violating the window period will not be a big problem, just like abnormal shipments will only receive a reminder, affecting the speed of warehouse entry. As for whether the punishment for illegal shipments will be upgraded in the future, it is hard to say at present. It will definitely depend on the feedback and effect of the trial operation of the new regulations.

However, if the seller uses Amazon's partner carrier or AGL's official logistics, there is no need to fill in this item, Amazon will track the logistics information of these two types of goods. At the same time, AGL can also provide sellers with lock warehouse, advance listing and satellite warehouse services, and can directly deduct fees from the store balance during settlement, saving sellers from exchange losses caused by withdrawals and payments, and reducing the impact of falling exchange rates.