Recently in several Amazon sellers’ groups, I have seen Amazon seller friends asking, “What should I do if my warehouse is divided by Amazon?”
In fact, when I was studying this type of problem, I spent time mainly studying how to solve this problem:
How can I operate it if I spend money?
What can you do if you want to save money?
Then, if you don’t want to go through so much trouble but still want to save money, what can you do?
Now, if I encounter similar problems again, I can easily find strategies to deal with them.
Of course, in order to save costs, if you can avoid spending money, you should definitely not spend money. Then in the background settings, choose the inventory configuration service, and don’t consider paying a warehouse closing service fee of 0.3-0.4 US dollars each.
For the free method:
Method 1: Write the shipping address directly to California, USA. (Want to save money but don’t want to go through the trouble of making multiple delivery plans)
Basically, Amazon will assign them to warehouses in ONT8 or ONT9 in California. However, this also depends on Amazon's mood. If you have not changed the address in advance, and you change the shipping address on the day when you encounter a warehouse split, I have personally tested that the warehouse will still be split. After changing the shipping address in advance, I basically never encountered the problem of warehouse division again.
If you send it by air or by sea, you can save a lot of Amazon logistics fees.
People always ask if there will be any problem if the goods are actually shipped from China but the shipping address is written as the United States.
As long as we imagine the machine that scans codes when Amazon enters the warehouse as ourselves receiving express deliveries, there will be no problem.
When we receive express delivery, do we carefully check the shipping address? No way?
As long as I am the recipient, the address is correct, and the product is correct, we will unpack it directly. As for where it was sent from, at least I generally don’t care. Even if it says online that the store is in Beijing, but the product I finally received was sent from Nanjing, as long as there is no difference from the product I should have received, I will not care.
Think about drop shipping, just boldly write the shipping address as the United States.
Method 2: Spend time making several shipping plans. (Ways to save money)
What is the logic behind making multiple shipping plans?
For example, if you want to ship 100 items, they are divided into 3 warehouses. (Personal test, no matter how small the quantity is on that day, it will be allocated to the three designated warehouses and divided into three delivery plans)
So can we just write the delivery quantity as 300, 400, or 500 and only send one of the delivery plans?
It can be adjusted by ±5%, or ±5, so find the closest number, make adjustments in the fourth step, and then ship the products. The others can be shipped without being shipped.
Of course, in the actual operation, I found that my way of summarizing is not omnipotent.
For example, this is aimed at the American background.
Then a seller read the article I wrote before and asked from the European backend why there is no warehouse consolidation service?
There are so many countries in Europe and many tax issues involved, so it is normal that there is no such thing.
All findings are based on the current Amazon rules. If they are not based on the existing rules, once the Amazon rules are changed, previous experience may become invalid.
By the way, I would like to share an experience worth a million dollars.
In one night, several friends had already given their goods to the freight forwarder, and the goods were about to be shipped to the port, but the shipping plan had not yet been made, and the box labels had not yet been printed out. They were still figuring out how to operate the backend, and the freight forwarder on the other side of the computer kept urging them to provide the outer box labels.
In fact, when you have time, you can make a shipping plan first, but it is just a backend operation. It is not a real order or shipment. At worst, the final shipping plan can be deleted, and there will be no financial loss.
At least you have to make sure that the goods handed over to the freight forwarder are labeled with box labels. What if you accidentally put the wrong label on the box?
The background just can’t progress to the next step and is stuck. If you plan ahead, you will have time to make adjustments.
To sum up, before uploading the Listing, you will know how much goods to ship, and after uploading the Listing, you can make a shipping plan in advance.
As for replenishment, if the goods have been shipped and need replenishment, even if there is no time to communicate with the factory, you can ask the operation department to make a shipping plan first, anyway, the operations can be carried out simultaneously.
At the very least, your products won’t be unable to be shipped when it’s almost time to ship because Amazon’s backend fails to provide the box labels in a timely manner. This is really too rushed, and the more urgent it is, the easier it is to make a mistake when you don’t know how to handle it.
