Announcement reposted from Amazon:
This week at Accelerate, Amazon’s premier seller conference, we announced Supply Chain by Amazon: an end-to-end, fully automated set of supply chain services that provide a complete solution to quickly and reliably move products directly from your manufacturers to customers around the world.
With Supply Chain by Amazon, you benefit from our advanced logistics, fulfillment and transportation capabilities to keep products in stock, ship faster and more reliably, and significantly lower costs. We’ll pick up inventory from manufacturing facilities around the world, ship it across borders, handle customs clearance and ground transportation, store inventory in bulk, manage replenishment across Amazon and other sales channels, and deliver directly to customers.
Key benefits include:
- Automatic cross-border discounts for Amazon Global Logistics: You can now access discounts of up to 25% on all cross-border transportation bound for Amazon Warehousing and Distribution (AWD) – Amazon’s low-cost storage service that allows you to store inventory in Amazon distribution centers and seamlessly distribute products in bulk.
- Streamlined domestic inbound transportation to AWD with Partnered Carrier Program (PCP): Use PCP to streamline domestic transportation into AWD centers with reliable and fast transit times from trusted carriers, at up to 25% lower costs compared to alternatives. Available to all US sellers later this year.
- An expanded AWD offering with reduced prices: You can now store inventory in bulk at discounts of up to 80% compared to Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) storage fees. With no peak pricing during Q4, you can more efficiently manage inventory, even during the holiday season. Later this year, you’ll also be able to reserve long-term bulk storage at even deeper discounts.
- A new Multi-Channel Distribution capability: Move your products in bulk from AWD to any sales location (including online and physical stores), and replenish across all your sales and fulfillment channels from a single inventory pool. Expected to be available to all US sellers later this year.
- Automatic inventory replenishment with FBA: We can now automatically replenish inventory in the right quantities to the right fulfillment centers to increase the potential for same-day and next-day delivery speeds for FBA and Multi-Channel Fulfillment orders, which in turn drives an average 15% increase in unit sales.
To learn more about Supply Chain by Amazon, go to https://sell.amazon.com/programs/supply-chain.