Post by sinthiya007 on Nov 5, 2024 3:25:20 GMT
2020 was the year of a sharp surge in the popularity of online shopping. And this surge significantly increased the already great importance of the prep center in the logistics chain of online sellers. For example, due to the sharp limitation of imported batches of goods to Amazon warehouses in terms of quantity and volume, even those sellers who did not need a prep center before began to use prep centers. But more on that later.
First, let's define the types of these warehouses and their specialization, since in the Russian-speaking community of Amazon sellers, for some reason, it is customary to call any warehouse that concerns your product a prep center.
Types of warehouses by services provided:
Fulfilment centres are warehouses that store and ship your product directly to the end customer after the sale. For Amazon, this is Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) – more than 100 warehouses in the US and around the world;
Prep centers are warehouses that provide prep services (from the English word “prepare”), that is, preparing goods according to the requirements and rules of the trading platform and sending the goods to the fulfillment center;
Cross-docking/forwarding warehouses are warehouses that specialize in storing and sending goods to fulfillment centers without preparation. The same operating principle as fulfillment on page seo service centers, with the exception of important differences - sending goods to fulfillment centers in boxes (Small-Parcel-Delivery - SPD), pallets (Less-than-truckload - LTL) and trucks (Full truckload - FTL). Basically, such warehouses are located on the West Coast of the United States, where most of the goods come directly by sea from Asian suppliers.
Of course, there are warehouses and individual companies that try to combine different areas at the same time, but this does not always have a positive effect on quality and speed.
Today we are talking about prep centers and cross-docking warehouses.
When you're outside the US, or your product is manufactured outside of your country of residence, your options for getting your product ready for Amazon or another marketplace are very limited.
Essentially, the Prep Center is your eyes and hands in the US for everything related to getting your product to Amazon's warehouses.
The main tasks performed by the prep center:
receiving and checking your product for compliance with the listing and damage/defect;
consolidation of goods from different suppliers and shipment in one batch;
complete product preparation in accordance with all the requirements and rules of the trading platform;
placement of stickers with barcodes on the product;
formation of sets;
packaging of goods in additional packaging and protective materials (for example, gift packaging or bubble wrap for fragile goods);
forwarding (forwarding boxes with goods without opening, checking and preparing the contents) of goods by boxes, pallets, machines to Amazon.
One of the bonuses of interaction with the prep center is help in creating shipments (shipments) on Amazon. For example, e-Sell Trading Services can either help with advice and help you maximize the optimization of your shipments, or go through the entire process for you, with the help of your account access. In this case, in addition to optimizing the shipment of your product to the minimum number of warehouses (yes, often Amazon splits the shipment of the shipment into several warehouses in different states) and the associated significant savings on shipping costs, you will also save a huge amount of time that you can devote to the issue of your business development.
First, let's define the types of these warehouses and their specialization, since in the Russian-speaking community of Amazon sellers, for some reason, it is customary to call any warehouse that concerns your product a prep center.
Types of warehouses by services provided:
Fulfilment centres are warehouses that store and ship your product directly to the end customer after the sale. For Amazon, this is Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) – more than 100 warehouses in the US and around the world;
Prep centers are warehouses that provide prep services (from the English word “prepare”), that is, preparing goods according to the requirements and rules of the trading platform and sending the goods to the fulfillment center;
Cross-docking/forwarding warehouses are warehouses that specialize in storing and sending goods to fulfillment centers without preparation. The same operating principle as fulfillment on page seo service centers, with the exception of important differences - sending goods to fulfillment centers in boxes (Small-Parcel-Delivery - SPD), pallets (Less-than-truckload - LTL) and trucks (Full truckload - FTL). Basically, such warehouses are located on the West Coast of the United States, where most of the goods come directly by sea from Asian suppliers.
Of course, there are warehouses and individual companies that try to combine different areas at the same time, but this does not always have a positive effect on quality and speed.
Today we are talking about prep centers and cross-docking warehouses.
When you're outside the US, or your product is manufactured outside of your country of residence, your options for getting your product ready for Amazon or another marketplace are very limited.
Essentially, the Prep Center is your eyes and hands in the US for everything related to getting your product to Amazon's warehouses.
The main tasks performed by the prep center:
receiving and checking your product for compliance with the listing and damage/defect;
consolidation of goods from different suppliers and shipment in one batch;
complete product preparation in accordance with all the requirements and rules of the trading platform;
placement of stickers with barcodes on the product;
formation of sets;
packaging of goods in additional packaging and protective materials (for example, gift packaging or bubble wrap for fragile goods);
forwarding (forwarding boxes with goods without opening, checking and preparing the contents) of goods by boxes, pallets, machines to Amazon.
One of the bonuses of interaction with the prep center is help in creating shipments (shipments) on Amazon. For example, e-Sell Trading Services can either help with advice and help you maximize the optimization of your shipments, or go through the entire process for you, with the help of your account access. In this case, in addition to optimizing the shipment of your product to the minimum number of warehouses (yes, often Amazon splits the shipment of the shipment into several warehouses in different states) and the associated significant savings on shipping costs, you will also save a huge amount of time that you can devote to the issue of your business development.