Appreciate that. Wish it was just this FBA nonsense. Not going to bore you with the details but it’s been non-stop ■■■■■■■■ from Amazon for weeks.
Thought SAS would be the answer to some of this nonsense. Hasn’t helped much but they have helped a little.
Just got a brand name changed through SAS… That’s a long story but a MAJOR win…
Astounding levels of bullshittery.
I am sorry that you are going through all this too but feels good to know we are not alone.
Is it just me or are things cool with Amazon for weeks at a time and all of a sudden a ■■■■ storm comes for a little while and then reverts to calm?
Makes no sense but looking forward to the upcoming calm / normal level of ■■■■■■■■.
This 
is the solution for sure! haha
I had a 30 minute conversation with my wife last night about if it was the actual ■■■■■■■■ pumped to us, or if I was just me being pissed at the absurdity of the problems and the sheer ineptitude of Amazon, its programs and employees.
I think a lot of the stress comes from being held to account for the actions of people and programs that in any other environment would be considered ■■■■■■■■/inept/immoral.
The FBA Multiple Destination plan worked extremely well for us today.
Normally we save on the shipping but today we hit the jackpot.
We have been a part of this program for a while and have decided to keep with the program.
earned $263.47
How many issues do you run into with putting that many different skus on the pallets?
We only send in single sku pallets and actually split plans by product to avoid issues and it’s worked for us but it costs more…
It worries me more because our main brand has multiple potencies and the products really look basically the same even though they aren’t…
Minimal issues. Or in other words, expected-allowed discrepancies. I do open lost inbound cases when needed. The over/short between items is low but does occasionally happen.
We had more issues 5-10+ years ago with products being relabeled incorrectly but that has not happened in a very long time.
I do not believe Amazon warehouse employees actually looks at the item. I am under the impression they just scan barcodes because about 10 years ago they switched completely different unrelated items.
That impression is correct. Every single unit is scanned on a belt upon receipt to be counted. If it’s a FTL with 100,000 units of a single ASIN, every single one of those 100,000 will be physically scanned. Learned that from my original SAS manager that started life in the Amazon FC / DC world and got forced back there when Amazon mandated no more working from home.
Just took a little snapshot of FBA’s performance on our goods.
In the time period - 49,632 units shipped - 49,569 received. 99.87% accuracy. 63 units and 38 of those can be traced back to a single shipment that got split to 4 different destinations. 63 will be written off as a loss. Some of them will be undoubtedly found and sold. The IRS isn’t auditing us for something this small and even if they did, we have the time-stamped records to back us up. I find this way to be much easier and less time consuming. If we sold grand pianos, that might be a different story but we don’t.
Interesting… Just popped up as a winner for us as well. I already had the guys build this pallet so I’m not splitting it in 3 because they will hunt me down. I can’t believe we can actually make money by following Amazon’s freight direction.
Who was it that was bashing FBA the other day because of inbound freight charges? LOL @Roxy I hope you know I’m just kidding, busting your chops. 
@ASV_Vites the bearer of bad news
Yep the costs just went up.
This is the same ■■■■ they pulled during the holidays last year where they were splitting pallets essentially having sellers do the FC distribution for them.
Alas it is what it is
What is bad about getting back $409 after spending $200? I’m so confused.
Yes, the pallet we are shipping was $135 instead of it’s usual $93 but it is going somewhere a bit further than usual. This pallet has 4800 units on it. Who cares…? Not I
How are those rebates applied? Because I don’t see them in our case the standard has the rebate not the recommended option. Also can’t push the shipment through until I’m ready so if the rebate is reflected at the end, I’ll have to wait and see.
I think it’s as the units sell to be honest but at the end of the day you do get paid more than you paid…
I’ve never seen it before. It came up after I entered all the units being shipped.
There is still a loophole. Amazon does not limit how many cases on a pallet and there are not case limits, only unit-per-case limits. Simply enter the total number of cases you want to send in as your pallet quantity in the “Single SKU Pallet” section.
We put 200 units of oversize on a single pallet with a case quantity of 1 and they made a 10 pallet shipment for us to a single destination. Winner winner chicken dinner.
Tired of your pallets being split? Make your templates single sku pallets and then get a better outcome and delete the ones that get split.
Tried this today and didn’t work. Still split Pallets to multiple destinations with irregular pallet size. Also didn’t offer the reimbursement credit which I’m still unclear on how it processes since it didn’t reflect on the final price after confirmation.
Just a heads up.
Can’t be unless it was a mixed pallet.
Confused by this statement. In my case, 4 pallets were split into 3 different FC’s 2, 1 and 1 and the pallets were not full pallets they were irregular pallets yesterday. Today, they are complete pallets but still being split between two vegas FC’s and 1 Stockton FC.
In my case, it did not work, if I’m understanding you correctly
All single SKU pallets. So you might be right about the pallets being split into irregular box arrangements, as was being shown yesterday with the single sku pallet template, but it’s still splitting the destination + no rebates.
I created a very large pallet (single sku) shipment plan yesterday, wasn’t invited to be split.
Also create an SPD shipment because LTL is supposedly backed up to the tune of weeks. That I did get the split invite and I did it. 3 chances of it to be checked in somewhere to keep the inventory flowing.
$50 or 7 shippers - $90 rebate. +$40
Just to show how screwed up everything is right now. This says it’s been picked up. It hasn’t. Can’t even print the BOL even though it says it’s been generated.
Interesting and that is using the single sku template? Also for the single sku shipment using the single template were you offered a rebate?
