The Amazon Ecosystem and Terminology
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By default as a seller on seller central shipping via fulfillment by Amazon FBA. When you create a shipping plan, your shipment may be divided into multiple shipments, each doorway to two different receive center or fulfillment center referred to as distributed inventory placement. The fulfillment centers are selected based on the product you’re shipping and where you are shipping from, by having you inventory spread across multiple fulfillment centers across the country.
show moreCustomers who buy your product may receive it faster than they would. If your inventory was located further away to better sprinter products, Amazon may route your shipment through a received center, which receives units. And then we shipped them to other fulfillment centers in the network. You’ll products available for sale as soon as Amazon has succesfully received them at any of the received centers and overcompensate centers.
Units that are being reshipped to other fulfillment centers are available for customers to buy, but customers may be shown a future ship date if no other units are available for immediate fulfillment, essentially Amazon is consolidating all of your shipments into one shipment going to one fulfillment center.
To start with and then separating them out from there. You can sign up for the inventory placement service and send all of your eligible inventory to a single receive center or fulfillment center. When the shipment arrives, it is split up and sent to different fulfillment centers for you. When you use the inventory placement service, the destination received center or fulfillment center is determined by Amazon.
You cannot choose receive center or performance center to which you send your shipment. The destination chosen by Amazon may vary from shipment to shipment.