James Greaney here from internetbizuni.com and in today's video I'll be
explaining everything that you need to know about shipping pallets in to
Amazon's FBA warehouses so I'm gonna start off with why why would you bother
shipping pallets when you can just ship products in inboxes individually well
the first reason is with your manufacturer you will get a lot better
deal when you're buying in container loads you're purchasing a container load
of products you're gonna get comfort then if you're just purchasing a few
different boxes of products the second reason is when you're shipping your
products from China you will get your shipping rate for a
lot less when you're shipping a full container load it just makes sense once
you scale up your business to start ship and container loads of products rather
than shipping parrot containers or shipping by air it's just gonna save you
a lot of money in shipping fees and the third reason and main reason why you do
is turn to four at the busiest time of year which is now on Amazon October
November December and that is so that you have plenty of inventory on hand you
don't run out of inventory when you need it the most when a seller at the fastest
rate okay so that's the three different reasons why you would ship pallets into
Amazon FBA rather than shipping individual boxes just makes more sense
and saves you money in the long run so when you do scale up your business this
is something you'd want to be doing now I'm gonna jump on to how you do it so
what do you need to have in order to ship in your pallet so the first thing
is you need to have a label on every product that's the same thing if you're
shipping in individual boxes or however you're sending products into Amazon FBA
warehouse every product that you sends it needs to have a parent code you can
put an FN SKU bear code or a UPC bear coat this decision is up to you whether
you want your products commingled or just individually left in Amazon's
warehouse but when you're doing private label it doesn't make a whole lot of
difference so either a UPC code or an FN SKU code on each of your products when
you send them in to Amazon's warehouse you should get your manufacturer to put
these on your products before they send them from China then the next labels you
need is a label on each box so each one of them individually
doctors has its own individual labor honors this is just so that Amazon scan
each box when it comes in and they know exactly how many boxes has came in on
each pallet and then finally each pallet has to have labeled Khurana as well just
to show how many pallets they will receive in Amazon's FBI warehouse and
the process for getting your labels for your pallets and your boxes is very
straightforward once you create your shipment within Amazon seller central
they will issue you the different labels that you need to put on the outside of
your boxes and each of the pallets when you're creating your shipment you will
have to create an LTL shipment which is just a truckload shipment and this is
different from if you were just getting UPC to deliver a few boxes for you into
Amazon FBA warehouse because you have to go and arrange the haulage company to
bring in the products yourself Amazon doesn't do it for you whereas when you
just get UPC to do it you can just go onto UPC's website and book them for a
collection they'll come out to collect your individual boxes and that is the
most straightforward way to do it if your ship and 30 or less boxes that's
the most that you can see can bring so if your ship and talk to your last boxes
then you're better off just order a UPC there discount shipping and sending your
products in with them to Amazon's FBA warehouse okay so for shipping
products into Amazon FBA warehouse in the UK your pallets have to meet this
size they have to measure a 1000 mil by 1200 mil and they have to be the 4 Way
pallet so that a forklift can come in from each side of the palace and pick it
up and movers the max height is a hundred centimeters centimeters high or
else Amazon simply won't accept your shipment
into the warehouse if it is so make sure that's the case you have to shrink wrap
every pallet that you send in just like you see behind me it's all shrink
wrapped around you have to do that with every pallet that you send it to Amazon
FBA warehouse and each palace cannot exceed 500 kilo
in ways so again just work out how much weight is in each box and how much box
is in each palace so it's 24 boxes that I'm sending in but again this will
differ depending on the size of your product and the size of the curtains
that your product comes in but either way that's the max height and weight
that you can exceed with any colors and that's 180 centimeters and 500 kilos
when shipping into the UK warehouses and again if you're shipping in to the US
it's very similar I've shipped lots of pallets like this to Amazon FBA in the
u.s. it's very similar but there is slight differences and the best thing to
do is just google at the time Amazon FBA Palace requirements u.s. or whichever
country you're sending them into because there may be small differences where
Palace sizes etc when you're sending into the different FBA warehouses so
just Google a lot and you'll get the exact requirements than Amazon expect
when you're sending pallets into the FBA warehouse depending on where you're
sending to and then the process is very straightforward for sending them in you
just create your shipment inside Amazon seller central again just create that as
an LTL shipment then you have to book your own haulage company and then you
have to schedule a slot with Amazon FBA warehouse to send them in so again
Amazon will assign you to the warehouse and you will then just have to book your
own slot for the haulage company to delivering your pallets just have to
fill out basic form on Amazon explain how many pallets you're sending in what
different SKUs are on each palace and yeah which warehouse they're going to
and then you have to put in your haulage number because they have to be a
registered haulage to send in products into Amazon's FPA warehouse with you
can't just driving yourself with a caring trailer so you have to use a
halogen you have to get their haulage number and put it on the entry form then
once you put it on that form you send it off times aren't usually Amazon right
back within 24 hours confirm and your slot and then once you have your slot
you just send your pallets like this with your haulage company into Amazon
FBA and they get ejected pretty much the same as when you send in individual
curtains with UPS or any of the other services that you can use but if
wanted is if you were sending in you know 30 or less boxes then don't go send
them in a palace you're better off just sending them in with UPS it's you know
gonna save you a lot of time and effort just to walk in a pallet so you're
better off just sending them with UPS but once you go over that once you start
order and container loads of products then you should start sending the mid in
pallet loads so I hope that this video was helpful for you I said that I put it
together while I was preparing these pallets myself I've now these four
pallets sent off and they're gone into Amazon FBA I've another four pallets
that are send in in December time or when stuff runs out if stuff runs out
sooner than that and yeah I just wanted to kind of to give you an insight into
it of what you have to do to prepare a palace of products for yourself this was
a shipment that I have been waiting for for a while and now that the containers
in I have a lot of work to do with this so if you are interested in joining the
unique private labour course this course is going to be closing in the next few
days I'm gonna have to close it because again I've a lot of my own work to do
now that these products are rained time to get them all moving and sold so
I have a lot of my own work to do and that's why I can't be just on calls all
of the time with other people who join in the course so if you are interested
in it I will leave a link below to the unique private labour course and you can
go and check it out there for yourself but I will be closing this course very
soon hope that you've enjoyed this video and look forward to speaking to you on
the next one bye