If you’re not already using custom machinery in your FBA prep process, then now is the time. With specialized tools uniquely designed and deployed for your brand’s processes, you can accelerate turnaround times, improve bundling, and prepare your business to scale, for example.

Setting up and integrating custom machinery into your current workflows, however, can be a cumbersome process—that’s where we step in.

At MyFBAPrep, we’ve acquired and set up specialized tools and custom machinery for customers in diverse industries, from health and beauty to food, apparel, and much more.

Here’s a look at how custom machinery can optimize your logistics process and what we can do to help.

How your brand can benefit from custom machinery

Whether you’re introducing bundles, preparing for larger sales volumes, or getting ready to scale your brand, finding custom machinery solutions tailored to your unique goals can help optimize logistics and position your team for long-term, adaptable success.

Explore 4 common reasons brands turn to custom machinery:

Scale fulfillment operations

As your business grows and begins to scale operations, the mechanisms you currently have in place may no longer be the best fit for your changing needs. By bringing in specialized tools that are custom fit to match your brand’s product line-up, you can better position your operations to support long-term scalability.

Safely handle fragile items

Certain products, like beverages, glassware, jewelry, etc., may require special packaging or labeling. While possible to manage without, specialized prep tools can make a big difference in ensuring proper handling to minimize damage and accidentally shipping broken products.

Accelerate turnaround times

When you’re under pressure to prep large volumes of product quickly (e.g., in Q4 leading up to the hectic holiday season), your standard picking and packing processes may need an upgrade to help you accommodate faster turnaround times. With custom machinery, you can more reliably accelerate prep time without increasing error rates or compromising quality.

Quick and accurate kitting and bundling

Offering product bundles or kits is a savvy tactic that can help your shop entice new customers and strengthen brand loyalty—but it also comes with particular packing requirements and complex assembly tasks. Customized tools can help speed assembly time, boost efficiency, and ensure operational consistency across all bundles.

Get the custom machinery you need with MyFBAPrep

Whether you’re preparing to scale your business, handle fragile items, accommodate fast turnaround times, support bundling, or meet other specific logistics demands, customized machinery can smooth processes and make it easier for your brand to consistently guarantee high quality.

Figuring out how to order, implement, and maintain specialized tools, though, can present another challenge. That’s why MyFBAPrep acquires specialized FBA prep tools for our customers.

No matter what kind of tool or setup you need to optimize your FBA prep process, we can create custom contracts to integrate and deploy different tools and specialized machinery based on your brand’s roadblocks.

8 Specialized tools to optimize your logistics

We understand that every brand has unique logistics challenges, which is why we prize flexibility and investing in specialized tools tuned to your specific products, packaging, and processes.

Discover 8 ways we invest in our customers’ success with custom machinery.

1) Shrink bundler

If your brand sells or is planning to offer bundles or kits to your customers, then a shrink bundler is a worthy investment for logistics optimization.

Shrink bundlers can wrap single SKU and multiple SKU packages together, ensuring a perfect and professional wrap around finished products. MyFBAPrep has purchased a fully-automatic shrink-wrap machine for bundles on behalf of a beverage client, but these specialized tools are a useful solution for any customer who needs items bundled together, such as food products, cosmetics, etc.

2) Robotic pickers

Robotic pickers are specialized pick-and-pack tools that help automate pick, pack, and ship processes.

Today, select MyFBAPrep warehouses are already outfitted with robotic pickers. With our technology partners, we can use this customized machinery to optimize the FBA prep process for your brand. First, we’ll do a deep dive into your products and business model; then, we’ll design a plan to streamline your pick-and-pack process, e.g., ensuring optimal pick routes and accurate inventory selection across coded shelves.

3) Heavy-duty combo shrink systems

Aptly named, combo shrink systems combine sealing and shrinking functions and are specifically designed to accommodate high-volume packing needs.

We’ve purchased this diverse tool for multiple customers across health, wellness, beauty, and food. With this customized machinery, we can rapidly package different products together, enabling us to further optimize prep for clients who need to bundle large or heavy products.

4) Shelves and racking

Custom shelves and racking can be a game-changer for brands who need to rehaul their stock organization.

MyFBAPrep purchased and installed custom storage racks to accommodate the needs of a shoe brand. Now, the custom setup allows us to better organize stock and find items faster for a more efficient, streamlined picking and packing process.

5) Scanning hardware

Beyond custom machinery, we can also onboard and implement custom hardware and software to support your brand’s workflows.

We’ll acquire these tools and implement them in our warehouse operations so you can keep working with the hardware and software that serve your team best.

6) WMS integrations

Often, many companies face challenges when working with different software and EDI (electronic data interchange) connections.

To help soothe these processes, we can build and implement custom WMS (warehouse management systems) to better integrate diverse systems and keep your brand’s logistics running smoothly.

7) Shrinkwrappers

If you need to wrap individual goods, then a custom shrinkwrapper is a valuable tool that can help warehouse teams speed up and optimize wrapping processes.

MyFBAPrep has acquired these machines for clients in industries like health and beauty, and we’re ready to do the same for brands in varied industries who want to level up their product packaging and presentation.

8) Box erectors

No matter which industry you’re in, if your brand sells items that come in a box, then a box erector is a must-have tool to speed up assembly processes, reduce manual efforts, and maintain consistent quality.

For example, we’ve acquired these machines for diverse clients to automatically erect variety pack boxes, custom subscription boxes, and more.

Send us your wish list of custom machinery for next-level optimization

At MyFBAPrep, we have experience acquiring specialized tools across many different industries, including health, beauty, food, apparel, and wellness.

But maybe your brand already uses custom machinery? We can help there, too.

Send us your custom machinery, and we’ll learn how to master your tools and processes. Then, we can work together to discover new opportunities for optimization to take your logistics processes to the next level.

Wrapping up

To be best-in-class in your industry, you must adopt modern, streamlined picking and packing processes that reduce error, boost efficiency, and help you get more done in less time. That’s why today’s most efficient and agile brands use specialized tools—and we help them make it happen.

MyFBAPrep acquires, sets up, and deploys custom FBA prep machines on behalf of our clients to optimize product storage, picking, packing, bundling, and much more. We can also learn the customer machinery you’re already using and help you develop new strategies for warehouse optimization.

At MyFBAPrep, we’re prepared to go the extra mile to invest in your success, whatever that looks like for you.

Contact us today to learn how we can set up and deploy custom machinery to optimize your logistics.