Amazon FBA & Fulfillment How-To Guides
This is the Amazon fulfillment section of the Goat Consulting blog, where we cover how FBA, FBM, AWD, and the rest of Amazon's fulfillment network actually work from a seller's point of view. You'll find practitioner-written guides on shipping to FBA, how FBA fees are calculated, Inbound Placement Fees, managing restock and inventory health, filing reimbursement claims, and preparing for Prime Day and Q4. Every post is written by a member of our team who has built and managed FBA operations for brands, so you get both the rule and the real-world workaround.
Most sellers land here trying to solve a fulfillment problem or get a handle on FBA costs, so the posts below are a working reference you can come back to every time Amazon changes something. Reach out to the Goat Consulting team to plan your shipments, recover reimbursements, or audit your FBA fees for you instead of doing it in-house
Sell your Amazon FBA Inventory on Walmart
Goat Consulting is writing a blog post on selling on Walmart? Hear us out, there is a new update that allows orders on Walmart.com to be fulfilled by Multi-Channel Fulfillment. Prior to this policy change, Amazon Sellers looking to expand to Walmart.com faced the challenge of allocating and managing separate inventory for the marketplace. With this change in policy, Fulfillment by Amazon users can leverage their FBA-stocked inventory for Walmart order fulfillment. Along with increasing brand awareness through expansion to new markets, offering FBA inventory in additional channels can increase sell-through rates of FBA-stocked inventory. Offering FBA inventory on Walmart.com can reduce age-related FBA storage costs and increase your FBA Storage capacity, which can improve your ability to scale on Amazon.com. At Amazon Accelerate this September in Seattle, Amazon emphasized MCF’s ability to forward FBA inventory to other channels outside of Amazon. In this post, we will discuss the requirements for offering FBA inventory on Walmart.com, how to fulfill Walmart.com orders with Multi-Channel FBA fulfillment, and some of the advantages that MCF fulfillment provides on Walmart.com.
Amazon Ships in Product Packaging Program
The Amazon Ship in Product Packaging program can help you reduce costs by minimizing packaging, damages, and FBA fees. This program is available to all sellers who use Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) starting February 5th, 2024. The SIPP program, formerly known as Ships in Own Container (SIOC), reduces packaging by verifying products that can be shipped without an Amazon box, envelope, or bag and arrive to customers undamaged. Qualified products will ship in their own branded product packaging without any additional Amazon packaging material. This lowers FBA fees, reduces waste, and increases brand awareness to connect with customers. If you’re thinking of redesigning your product packaging or curious if your current packaging qualifies, continue reading to understand the benefits, packaging requirements, and testing requirements for the Ships in Product Packaging program.