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Issue 124: Ship All Your FBA Inventory to One Location — No Placement Fees, No Hassles

By Rachel Go

Hello, MyFBAPrep Sellers!

This will be our last email for 2024. In it, you’ll find tips on streamlining your FBA shipments, 2D barcodes, brand protection, and more.

We’ll see you again in January with a masterlist for selling on Amazon, from FBA product research to reverse logistics.

Happy holidays!

Ship All Your FBA Inventory to One Location — No Placement Fees, No Hassle

At MyFBAPrep, we revolutionize the way you send inventory to Amazon by eliminating the headaches of placement fees, split shipments, and the high costs of less-than-truckload (LTL) freight. Our innovative logistics strategy ensures that your inventory, no matter the size, is seamlessly shipped in full truckloads (FTL) to the right location every time.

Whether you’re shipping one pallet or ten, we consolidate your shipment into full truckloads in our dedicated trucking lanes to nodes around the country to minimize splits, and reduce inbound placement fees and speed.

Here’s how we do it — and why it’s the ultimate solution for your Amazon logistics

Learn more about our FTL consolidation and FBA inventory distribution.

Unlock Faster Amazon Fulfillment with 2D Barcodes: How MyFBAPrep Enhances Your Supply Chain

At MyFBAPrep, we’ve integrated 2D barcode technology across our network to offer our clients unparalleled speed, accuracy, and reliability in the FBA prep process. Here’s how 2D barcodes are transforming the supply chain:

  • Accelerated Check-In at Amazon Fulfillment Centers
  • Minimized Errors
  • Cost Savings
  • Enhanced Flexibility

Let us implement 2D barcodes for your FBA inventory.

The Unauthorized Seller Problem: How to Protect Your Brand on Amazon

Unauthorized sellers cause:

  1. Price Erosion: Unauthorized sellers often sell below MSRP, forcing your authorized partners to lower prices, which hurts margins and undermines your pricing strategy.
  2. Brand Confusion: Buyers may not understand the difference between authorized and unauthorized sellers, leading to negative reviews and poor customer experiences.
  3. Poor Quality Control: Unauthorized sellers may sell outdated, damaged, or counterfeit versions of your product.
  4. Lost Control of Listings: Amazon’s Buy Box algorithm favors lower prices and better performance, meaning unauthorized sellers could take control of your product listing.
  5. Retailer Relationships: Your retail partners lose confidence when they compete with unauthorized sellers undercutting them.

Learn how to protect your brand from unauthorized sellers.

How to Mail Frozen Food: Your Guide to Cold Chain Shipping

Do your items need temperature control to keep them at peak performance? You can protect your inventory with cold chain storage and shipping, ensuring consistent, precise temperatures throughout every step of the fulfillment process.

Learn how to prep, package, label, and more for cold chain.

Stay cool with cold chain logistics.

Finish Q4 strong and kick-off 2025 running

We know the urgency that’s needed for reliable, professional FBA prep, DTC fulfillment, B2B replenishment, and more. Let’s work together on your 2025 logistics strategy.

Get any and every logistics service you need to succeed

From Hubs to Homes: How Shipping Carriers and Networks Work

In 2023, about 356 billion packages were shipped worldwide. Each of those packages moved through a vast, complex web of logistics, and shipping carriers are the backbone of that intricate system.

They do more than just pick up and drop off boxes; shipping carriers rely on advanced technology, strategic planning, and intricate networks to keep supply chains running and ensure packages arrive on time.

We’ll discuss how these logistical giants operate, the technology they use for smooth operations, and how to choose the right carrier to support your business’s success.

Get an inside look at shipping carriers and networks.

USPS vs UPS

USPS vs UPS? Shipping goods to customers is (hopefully) the final step in an eCommerce supply chain, but with multiple shipping carriers available, it can be difficult to choose one to deliver your orders. UPS (United Parcel Service) and USPS (United States Postal Service) are two of the largest options in the U.S and part of the big four: USPS, Amazon Logistics, UPS, FedEx.

While each moves goods from one destination to another, the specific services they offer and their approaches to shipping and packaging differ. However, that makes it generally easy to compare the two and decide whether USPS vs UPS is the better fit for your eCommerce store.

Make wise shipping choices for your bottom line.

Innovative Features to Improve Inventory Tracking and Control

Innovative inventory management tools are tackling industry issues head-on and revolutionizing the field of inventory tracking and control. To improve operational efficiency, modern systems make use of cutting-edge technology like cloud computing, real-time data analytics, and automated tracking procedures, which boast advantages like:

  • Automated tracking: This feature lessens the chance of human error by eliminating manual entry.
  • Real-time data capabilities: This provides a complete view of inventory at all times, which supports quick, well-informed decision-making.
  • Automatic alerts: Low inventory levels trigger reorder notifications to avoid stockouts.
  • Inventory maps: This shows companies how their inventory is organized, making it easier to locate products and enabling more efficient use of available space.

Learn about the tools at your disposal.

How to Develop New Products Better, Faster, and Cheaper With Design-to-Manufacturing

Every brand and eCommerce business faces the same challenge: how to identify, produce, and launch new, successful products that make them more money faster.

It’s relatively easy to capitalize on a product that others are already selling, but it typically becomes a race to the bottom, with your competitors trying to win on price and you having no other way to differentiate your product. At the other end of the spectrum, you can develop a completely new offering that only you sell, but this typically consumes a lot of time and capital and often requires expensive tooling and engineering.

However, an approach exists for quickly identifying, creating, and selling highly differentiated products that generate high profit margins without all the up-front investment.

Get the basics and best practices of D2M.

Top Industry News

NRF and Happy Returns Report: 2024 Retail Returns to Total $890 Billion (National Retail Federation)
Returns continue to pose a significant cost for the retail industry, with total returns projected to reach $890 billion in 2024, according to a report released today by the National Retail Federation and Happy Returns, a UPS company. Retailers estimate that 16.9% of their annual sales in 2024 will be returned.

TikTok Shop is Outperforming Shein and Sephora Among US Shoppers Online (Business Insider)
TikTok Shop has surpassed retail giants Shein and Sephora in the online battle for US shoppers. TikTok Shop launched in September 2023, making it a relatively new online retailer compared to its peers. However, the consumer trends report said 80% of surveyed Americans who use TikTok at least once a month are aware of TikTok Shop, signaling the retailer’s growing reach.

Amazon is Joining the 15-Minute Delivery Race: A Threat for Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy Instamart? (Business Today)
Amazon is taking a bold step into India’s growing quick commerce market, promising to deliver everyday essentials in 15 minutes or less. The pilot programme will begin in Bengaluru later this month, adding competition to a sector already dominated by Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy Instamart.

ShipMatrix Data Highlights Very Strong Parcel On-Time Performance Rates (Logistics Management)
For Cyber Week, which ShipMatrix defines as the week of December 1-7‑and a period in which more than 100 million parcels per day are handled, with more than 80% of these parcels being holiday gifts and delivered to residences—the firm reported very strong performance results for FedEx, UPS, and the United States Postal Service (USPS).

Combined on-time performance (OTP) for all domestic parcel services for the three carriers using end-of-day delivery, for express and an extra day, hit high levels, respectively, with FedEx at 98.7%, UPS at 98.9%, and the USPS at 98.7%, reported ShipMatrix.

E-commerce Logistics Startup Cart.com Acquires OceanX (FreightWaves)
Cart.com, a Houston-based startup providing end-to-end e-commerce services, has acquired OceanX, the wholly owned fulfillment operations arm of Guthy-Renker. Cart.com President Ilias Simpson said the OceanX acquisition not only increases the company’s fulfillment warehouse network, but also expands the e-commerce firm into new market segments.Through the acquisition, Cart.com will gain clients such as Meaningful Beauty, The Body Firm, Smileactives and Westmore Beauty.

How Logistics and Wholesale Trade Platforms Are Riding the Embedded Finance Wave (PYMNTS)
To improve customer satisfaction, revenue growth and competitiveness, payment facilitators (PayFacs), independent software vendors (ISVs) and marketplaces from the logistics and wholesale trade industry have set their sights on enhancing their embedding finance capabilities.

More than half of PayFacs and marketplaces in this sector view embedded finance as highly important to their innovation plans. Nearly 1 in 3 plan to expand or start offering these features in the next year. ISVs in the sector, while also embracing innovation, are doing so at a more measured pace.

Maersk Opens First Warehouse in France for eCommerce Operations (Parcel & Post)
Integrated logistics company Maersk has opened its first warehouse in France that will provide fulfillment services for one of the world’s leading e-commerce companies. The 75,000m2 facility, located at GLP Park Denain – one of Europe’s main logistics centers, is BREEAM Very Good certified and includes 85 doors, with separate circulation for heavy goods and light vehicles. It is equipped with the AutoDock automated docking system.

Winners and Losers of Black Friday 2024 (Retail Dive)
Thanks once again to e-commerce, Thanksgiving Day itself is stealing Black Friday’s thunder as a red-letter retail sales day. This year, shoppers spent $6.1 billion online on Thanksgiving, a record amount that was 8.8% above last year, according to Adobe. That growth outpaces last year, too, when Thanksgiving Day online sales grew 5.5%, per Adobe’s report. What’s more, holiday shopping in general has been spread out beyond the Thanksgiving-to-Cyber Monday period, experts said.

Amazon Fee Updates for 2025: What Sellers Need to Know (Seller Engine)
As for next year’s selling fees, perhaps the greatest surprise is that most of them will stay the same. A string of Amazon 2025 fee updates seem to support the idea that Amazon’s trying hard to attract bulk shipments, large items, fresh faces, and product launches.

Gen Z to the Rescue? How Malls are Winning Over a Generation of In-Person Shoppers (CNBC)
Gen Z plans to shop more in stores than online this holiday season, too. Nearly 63% of Gen Z respondents said they plan to make holiday purchases at physical stores, according to an annual survey by consulting firm EY. Only about 50% said they would make purchases on retailers’ websites and apps during the season, lower than any other generation besides baby boomers.

Until next time,
Rachel Andrea Go
Marketing Director, MyFBAPrep