Inside your seller central dashboard on Amazon, you’ll be able to find various tools that can help you set up and scale your Amazon FBA business successfully. One of these has to do with your shipping plan. As some of the many components and factors that must be considered in setting up your Amazon FBA business, your shipping plan has important implications for you as well as your customers.
The first thing to do to set up your Amazon FBA shipping plan is to visit your seller central dashboard and click on the button ‘Edit Inventory’. Once this drop-down menu pops open, select the button that says ‘Change to Fulfilled by Amazon’.
At that point in time you will need to click on ‘Convert only’. From this click, you will need to wait several minutes and then refresh the page. Now that this has been ‘Fulfilled by Amazon’, click on ‘Print Item Labels’. The Amazon FBA bar code that is generated is meant to be put on product packaging.
You would then click ‘Edit’ and then ‘Send Replenish Inventory’. The product that you select should be case packed which means that you are going to send all of your products together to Amazon in one large box. If multiple products are being fit into one box and being sent to Amazon FBA, you will select individual products.
In the beginning, your Amazon FBA ‘Shipping from Field’ is likely to be your house. However, this could also be the FBA inspection service that will be responsible for preparing your products if they have been received from a Chinese supplier. In some situations, a pop-up might indicate that you need to fill out the Hazmat Review Form. Depending on your category of product, Amazon might ask you this information just to be safe. You will also need to indicate to Amazon how many units per case you’re sending to their warehouse and how many total cases you’re sending to them.
Most of the products sold on Amazon FBA are not hazardous, so you will want to download an exemption sheet that must be fully filled out. The entire sheet should have the button ‘No’ clicked throughout it, and then save this on your desktop so you can upload it and hit ‘Continue’. At this point in time Amazon will prompt you to fill out the dimensions of your individual product and other preparatory information that must be included. In some cases, you can approximate, and then fill out the units per case and the number of cases being sent.
The next question that will be asked by you in your Amazon FBA shipping process is whether or not preparation is required. This means that they want to know whether or not any assistance by Amazon in the warehouses is required. This should be no. Amazon will automatically decide which warehouse your products are going to by creating a shipping plan.
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