In 2024, sellers thought that they could calm down for a while, who would have thought that the king would be fried at the beginning of the year! Effective March 1, 2024, the FBA Inbound Placement Service Fee will go into effect. It is difficult to avoid the sub-warehouse, and no matter how the seller calculates, the freight is still a cut up, and the profit is a little shorter.
With the implementation of warehousing configuration service fees, some sellers have begun to plan a phased price increase strategy when they are worried about the decline in profits. Some sellers believe that this will increase the difficulty of launching new products, ultra-small products and testing models to a certain extent, the threshold for low-priced products will become higher, profits will be further reduced, and the degree of involution of Amazon's operation will be even greater than before. In the past, some sellers were sent box by box in order to avoid being divided, but at present, it seems that this "tactic" has also failed.
The warehousing configuration service fee was officially implemented.
The Inbound Placement Service Fee is the cost that Amazon spends on helping sellers move inventory to fulfillment centers closer to consumers. Doug Herrington, global CEO of Amazon**, said, "The pursuit of faster delivery time is Amazon's long-term goal, and we know that there is still a lot of room for improvement in the future, and Amazon will continue to work hard to provide customers with faster delivery services." ”
In the U.S., Amazon is regionalizing operations by dividing fulfillment centers and fulfillment networks into smaller, more serviceable areas to make more efficient use of inventory within each region.
The warehousing configuration service allows sellers to flexibly choose the warehousing method. As a matter of official policy, starting March 1, 2024, FBA will charge different levels of fees (single and decentralized warehousing) for the different shipping configuration options selected by sellers. Amazon charges sellers the FBA shipping placement service fee based on the actual inbound location and received quantity 45 days after receiving the shipment.
Some sellers pointed out that if the delivery volume is small, no matter how it is calculated, it will be an additional money, either the first journey is expensive, or the configuration fee is expensive. "Yesterday it only cost $10 to ship a box, and today the warehouse has become nearly $30, and the freight is estimated to be $100,000 more in a year. ”
Amazon seller "Amazon City Brother" calculated an account, originally sent three warehouses in the west of the United States, but now it is divided into five warehouses, and it has to be distributed to the United States, China, and the east of the United States, according to the same aging of the general ship, on average, the first freight has increased by 70%+. According to product A, 100 boxes of 2700 products are shipped, and 3 shipments can be sent to Meixi (i.e., single-point warehousing), but a fee of 648 US dollars will be paid. If you split five shipments without paying the fee (i.e., disperse warehousing), the cost of the first trip = 100 boxes * 21kg * 4 yuan = 8200 yuan = 1150 US dollars (1 US West, 2 US China, 2 US East USD).
By comparison, the actual cost of five shipments is much more expensive than the three shipment inbound provisioning fees. "The wool is out of the sheep, Amazon has reduced the delivery fee, but the warehousing configuration fee has been made up by the seller, and it is paid one or two months in advance (because the reduced delivery fee needs to be paid after the sale), which is still a small loss. Secondly, the promotion of new products, ultra-small products, and testing models will encounter relatively large difficulties, and if there is only one shipment, the most expensive warehousing configuration fee will be charged. ”
ERP creates shipments to waive configuration fees?
After the warehousing configuration fee policy comes out, how to reduce the inbound configuration fee or even exempt the configuration fee has become a topic of great concern to sellers.
It is reported that there is a way to waive the configuration fee, that is, select Fulfillment by Amazon - Inbound Settings - Select Amazon Optimized Shipment Splitting in the Background, and then select ERP to create a shipment, which can waive the configuration fee. There are also service providers who post on Moments that they have the latest lock-up technology and do not need configuration fees.
However, many sellers remind that they can not use service providers, try not to use them, once the platform settles accounts after the autumn, it is too late to run, and the configuration fee is charged within 45 days. There are also sellers who consult other ERP service providers, which clearly point out that there is no good way to completely waive the configuration fee.
It would be nice if the price could be raised collectively. ”
I don't trust the illegal operation of the service provider, and it is too much of a loss to be liquidated. ”
Only one box of goods was sent today, and the warehouse fee was $130. ”
I've read several calculated posts, and they all say that the cost of three warehouses is the lowest, anyway, this one can't get by without a little blood. ”
A small seller with low profits, I was asked for $10 to send a box of goods today. ”
Yesterday divided 5 warehouses for free, thinking about dividing the warehouse, I saw that there were two remote warehouses in the middle, or the largest number of boxes, and the freight was more expensive than giving him the warehousing configuration fee. ”
The inbound configuration fee policy will also have an impact on freight forwarders. A senior freight forwarder in Shenzhen, like Hugo Cross-border, said that there is also an adverse impact on freight forwarders, such as the original customer can sell 5 pieces of goods with one vote, and now it is divided into 4-5 votes, which means that they have to play 4-5 more orders, wasting a lot of time and cost. On the other hand, if it is less than 100kg, the unit price will be 3-5 yuan per kilogram more expensive, and the cost of communication with customers will also be higher.
There are also freight forwarders who take the opportunity to launch new services. According to an analysis of a freight forwarder, Amazon's implementation of the new ** rules is intuitively to alleviate the storage pressure and work pressure of Amazon warehouses in the United States and the West, and to distribute some goods to Amazon warehouses in the United States, China and the United States. The freight forwarder said that in order to solve the seller's current problem, they launched the card delivery 21-99 kg segment service, so that less than 100kg of goods can also go to the card delivery, so that the seller does not have to choose the shipping express delivery channel with high delivery fees, which reduces logistics costs to a certain extent. It is reported that previously, for the partial warehouse, it was 100kg or 300kg, and the freight forwarder only received the seller's goods, and the service of the 21-99 kg section of the card was only for popular warehouses.