FBA: What is Amazon's logistics and what advantages it offers [Updated 2022]

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What is Amazon’s logistics?

Amazon’s service makes its own logistics available to any seller. They are responsible for storing, collecting, packaging and sending your product to the final customer throughout the European Union. It also offers customer service and return management.

The Amazon’s video logistics presentation:

What are the advantages of Amazon’s logistics services?

The most important of all is the following: **It allows you to focus on your tasks and responsibilities (catalog, customer management, products, distribution…)**But also:

• Helps you get new customers

• Let you have a fast-shipping service

• Amazon customer service (recognized prestige)

• Your products can be as premium Amazon and as free shipping costs

• It helps you compete for the buybox

• You’ll have more conversions and therefore more sales

• They offer customer care management and return management

• Tools, analysis, data, big data…

• It allows you to manage your own web and other channels.

More information on Amazon logistics functions and advantages in the following link: https: / / services.amazon.es / services / logistica-de-amazon / functions-and-beneficias.html

How does Amazon’s logistics work?

The process is as follows:

• Decide which products you will initially send to Amazon’s logistics. Prepare the units and the holding boxes. Prepare all the information on weights, measurements and volume to facilitate the shipping process.

• Send the selected products to Amazon to the logistics center they tell you. Sometimes there are several centers according to their automatic calculations on demand for each product and space.

• Amazon stores all your products and from that moment on they are for sale with all the advantages indicated. The main to the catalog is that the products will appear as premium and with deliveries in very short time. Your products are more competitive from this moment on.

• When an Amazon sale is made directly it is in charge of delivering the product. It simply informs you of the process that is carried out automatically on its part. 5. Amazon deals with returns or after customer service.

More information on how Amazon’s logistics works in the following link: https: / / services.amazon.es / services / logistica-de-amazon / procedento.html

What is the Amazon Pan-European Programme?

Amazon’s new Pan-European programme automatically distributes your products throughout Europe in accordance with the demand that is generated. Three additional new shops are included in this programme: the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden.

This means that these countries will be able to enjoy the lowest management and fast delivery costs. Amazon has a lower rate test for 3 months, at no additional cost.

With only one local logistics centre, Amazon is able to distribute them at no extra cost, and it will be in charge of distributing them throughout Europe on the basis of demand without paying anything for it.

When a purchase is made, the logistics fee to be charged will be the local logistics rate of that platform.

It is a new opportunity for internationalization through Amazon that opens up new markets for local products.

Simplifies inventory management

Send your products to a European location in Amazon and we will distribute them to the websites to meet the expected demand.

No additional cross-border management fees

You will only pay the logistics management fee in the country where your product is sold.

Stay close to the customers

When customers order your products, we take care of logistics management and offer fast and reliable deliveries from the nearest available logistics center.

It reaches millions of Prime customers

With the Amazon Pan-European Logistics Programme, you can sell your products on the five European websites of Amazon with the possibility of choosing Prime.

Trust Amazon’s 24-hour attendance

We offer a Customer Service in the local language of each European Amazon website and we take care of customer consultations, returns and repayments.

Amazon Pan-European Logistics Programme:

In addition, you will be able to enjoy reduced logistics management rates and you will get faster access to your customers across Europe. For example, if you want to sell a 1000-gram product (standard package) on the 5 European platforms in Amazon, you must send your inventory to the logistics centres in Spain.

Orders to be made through  amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr and amazon.it  shall be subject to a cross-border fee of the European Logistics Network €6.48. Thanks to the Amazon Pan-European Programme, you will be able to 62% of the rate.

Amazon Pan-European Logistics Programme and the European Logistics Network

From 1 January 2021 due to the Brexit, Amazon will not be able to manage any Logistics orders across the UK border and the USA If you want to sell through Amazon Logistics in these countries, you will have to send your inventory to the logistics centres in those countries.

Amazon Multicanal Logistics

Amazon’s Multicanal Logistics (MCF) helps vendors expand their business by giving them access to a wide logistics management network, operational experience and confidence-sending options for all their orders, from anywhere through services.amazon.es as in other sales channels.

How does Amazon’s Multicanal logistics work?

• Sellers must send all or part of their inventory to the Amazon logistics center, using their own transport or the transport program options that Amazon offers.

• Your customers can order from any sales channel (from the sellers’ website or any third party website).

• Depending on the shipping speed your customers have chosen, Amazon will process the order within 1 or 2 days.

Prices of Amazon’s multi-channel logistics for sales in Amazon or other channels

For sales from Amazon:

• Small and light size: from €0.80 - €1.90 per shipment (these are products of little weight and less than €10).

• Standard or large size: from €1,63 - €30,60 per shipment (products weighing from 1kg to 30 kg weight).

For sales on other Amazon channels:

• Standard and local send: from €3,45 - €21 per shipment.

• He sent fast and local: from €4,73 - €23 per send.

• International standard shipping: from €4,70 to €32 per shipment.

• He sent fast international: from €5,70 - €35,05 per shipment.

All charges for other sales channels depend on the size of the package. International urgent / fast shipments are only available in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

Examples and Cases of Success:

The Outlet Tablet

FBA-related interest resources:

Amazon logistics inventory management:

How Amazon’s logistics works:

Amazon logistics inventory label:

Your first Amazon logistics shipment:

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