Announcement reposted from Amazon United States:
The busy holiday season is approaching, which means it’s time to start sending in your inventory.
We want you to succeed this holiday season, and to ensure you have enough products in stock for peak, we recommend sending your FBA inventory to fulfillment centers in August and September.
Inventory must arrive at our fulfillment centers by October 19, 2024, to guarantee it’s Prime badge-ready by Black Friday.
Our fulfillment center teams will be focused on receiving inventory in September and October to ensure your products are placed in the right fulfillment centers ahead of peak.
In November and December, we’ll shift our focus to processing customer orders as this is our busiest time of year.
Note: We’ll have limited slots to accept your shipments at our fulfillment centers during November and December.
This seasonal shift helps us ensure faster delivery speeds and maximizes your sales potential during the holidays. Also, you may see lower estimated capacity limits for October and November. On average, the estimated capacity limits for October and November can help provide enough storage for six months of inventory.
The Capacity Monitor tool helps you stay up-to-date on capacity limits. You can now view estimated capacity limits for October, and November capacity limits will be available starting August 20. All date recommendations are subject to change.
Additionally, to help you simplify operations and manage inventory more efficiently during peak, we eliminated the overage fee for storage effective July 1, 2024. This means if your on-hand inventory exceeds your capacity limit, you will not incur the overage fee. Any overage fees that were incurred in June 2024 were charged to your account on July 2, 2024, but no further overage fees will be applied going forward. To learn more, go to FBA inventory storage overage fees.
You can find more recommendations and best practices for a successful holiday season in the peak readiness playbook.