Use new FBA inbound list view to help make delivery decisions
We've introduced a new and improved list view for inbound placement options during shipment creation for standard sized inventory shipped to the US. We developed this feature in response to your feedback, addressing your need for more visibility into receive times when you send inventory to us.
With this update, you’ll see real-time network receive capacity and delivery window availability that will help you make informed decisions about where and when to send inventory for the fastest receive speed.
You’ll also get the following benefits:
- A single list view of all placement options, with estimated total cost
- Clear alerts about delays and capacity limits
- Priority appointment scheduling when shipments arrive within delivery windows
- The ability to update delivery windows shipment is in transit
For more information, go to Send to Amazon: Confirm shipping.
Use new FBA inbound list view to help make delivery decisions
We've introduced a new and improved list view for inbound placement options during shipment creation for standard sized inventory shipped to the US. We developed this feature in response to your feedback, addressing your need for more visibility into receive times when you send inventory to us.
With this update, you’ll see real-time network receive capacity and delivery window availability that will help you make informed decisions about where and when to send inventory for the fastest receive speed.
You’ll also get the following benefits:
- A single list view of all placement options, with estimated total cost
- Clear alerts about delays and capacity limits
- Priority appointment scheduling when shipments arrive within delivery windows
- The ability to update delivery windows shipment is in transit
For more information, go to Send to Amazon: Confirm shipping.
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It still needs work. "Non-Amazon partnered carrier" is selected by default, even though the net cost per shipment shown is that of UPS, specifically if it were selected as an Amazon-partnered carrier. This has led to a cancelled shipment, as the default setting mimics how the net cost would look if we were buying a UPS label through Amazon, but does not actually buy a UPS label.
There is also more than one field in which to choose whether or not to use an Amazon-partnered carrier, for no discernible reason. It's possible to select one of these options in one place, and its opposite in another, for the same shipment, which leads to chaos.
The mechanics of the time frame for receiving are also clear as mud. UPS usually delivers far in advance of the time frame that's automatically populated as the expected period of receiving, and yet there is no way to select an earlier time frame when using an Amazon-partnered carrier. I suppose this could be a feature, not a bug, but it's still confusing.
How do we even begin to determine the time frame, when we have no way of knowing how long it will take for UPS, as an Amazon-partnered carrier, to physically move the shipment to Amazon's loading docks after tracking shows delivery? "Delivery" now invariably meaning "delivery to the UPS logistics center nearest the Amazon warehouse," rather than to the actual warehouse.
