Pick, Pack and Ship your orders to leveraging the Amazon FBA model!

The process of storing, packing, and delivering is known as fulfillment. You can use one fulfillment option for each of your products. Depending on their product range and category, most sellers use a combination of several fulfillment options.

When a consumer buys your goods on Amazon, you have three options for delivering them to them on Amazon. In Seller:
Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA)As the name implies, Fulfillment by Amazon is Amazon's order fulfillment model, in which Amazon handles inventory management, storage, picking, packing, shipping, and customer service for your purchases.
Easy Ship (ES)In Easy ship, you will have to store and pack your products. Amazon will deliver it to your customers.
Self-Ship You will store, pack, and deliver your products to your consumers if you pick Self Ship.

Let's talk briefly about Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA)

Amazon's Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) service provides merchants with storage, packaging, and shipping support.
The Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) business model is growing rapidly and with good reason. It works in the same way as a regular eCommerce store. Instead of fulfilling orders one by one, Amazon stores your products for you and even chooses, packs, and sends them to customers.
Everyone knows Amazon works with third-party sellers but did you know that nearly half of all Amazon sales in 2020 would come from third-party vendors rather than Amazon directly? Not only that, but around two-thirds of those vendors use Amazon's FBA platform. 

How Amazon FBA Works

To add your products to your FBA section, You need to use your amazon selling account and follow some simple instructions.

Step -1
Begin by creating an Amazon Selling account. Now you will be able to sell your products on amazon. If you already have an Amazon account, you can add Fulfillment by Amazon.

Step -2
Add all of your inventory items to Amazon's catalog. You can do this by individually uploading products, grouping them, or linking your inventory management software with Amazon's API.

Step-3
After uploading your products, ensure they're well-packaged to be safely sent to the Amazon warehouse. Amazon will provide you with all of the relevant contact information and address.

Step-4
The items are then kept in Amazon's fulfillment center until a customer places an order. There is a storage cost based on the product's size and volume.

Step-5
Your items are now available for purchase! Once the order is placed, Amazon handles receiving orders, repackaging them in Amazon-branded packaging, and shipping them to your consumers. 

They also handle all inquiries through their customer support service, which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Amazon also handles returns and refunds.

Step-6
Amazon provides you with the profit from your sales every two weeks.
What are the benefits of Using FBA Services?

There are numerous benefits to joining the FBA program, many of which you are undoubtedly already aware of. However, these are the program's features that sellers continue to value the most and why many choose to participate:

Undivided Attention to Business

You can easily focus on other aspects of your business, like procurement, marketing, and sales, with a company like Amazon handling operations like inventory management, picking, packaging, and customer support.
The previous process consumes a lot of time, due to which growth and innovation suffer. However, with FBA, you can concentrate on expanding your business.

Fast and hassle-free shipping

Customers' expectations for speedy delivery have evolved, and Amazon Prime was the catalyst for this transition.
Every company must fulfill orders and then ship them. As a result, you're familiar with the anxiety of not having enough time to quickly handle all of the orders.

When you reach a point where you're receiving tens of orders per day, you'll need your warehouse and staff to handle fulfillment and shipping.

You don't have to do anything because Amazon does it all for you. All you have to do is maintain track of your listings, make sure they're stocked with stuff, and leave the fulfillment to them.

Having Amazon's Name Associated With Their Products:

This is a quality assurance that most purchasers will appreciate, and it will make them more likely to frequent a seller as a result. Consumers expect outstanding customer care and fast delivery from FBA, so having the Amazon name attached to their products will help sellers earn consumer trust.

Discounted Shipping Rates

You'll save money on shipping charges through the FBA platform because you work with Amazon, a worldwide fulfillment giant. Amazon gives sellers discounts on lower inbound shipping expenses for items transported to one of its fulfillment centers.

You'll see a portion of that savings reflected in your fulfillment expenses, allowing you to make more profit per order than you would if you ship products yourself. You won't have to pay for shipping supplies or hire someone to box everything.
Best of all, you won't have to pay extra for Amazon Prime members' two-day shipping. Amazon has an export program that covers the customs rules and delivery methods if you want to send them to overseas customers.

Return Management

In an ideal world, your products will satisfy all of your customers. However, life doesn't always work that way, so you'll have to deal with some returns and refund requests. It's possible that going through and checking all of these will take up far too much of your time.

However, you can move the stress caused by angry consumers to Amazon by using Amazon FBA. Returns, shipping labels, and logistics are all handled by them.
This eliminates one more thing from your to-do list.

Customer service

Amazon provides its customer assistance to FBA sellers. You may also use their FBA platform to handle your customer support needs, channeling everything through one platform for ease of management.

Conclusion

Although beginning an FBA business may require some upfront cash, the effort required will be far less than starting a typical eCommerce business. 

You can earn so much more out of your online sales by leveraging the power of Amazon FBA, but only if you execute it correctly and have products that are profitable for it.
Outsourcing fulfillment through FBA is likely the best solution for most merchants that make 80% or more of their sales on Amazon.

On the other hand, most successful sellers don't keep to a single fulfillment approach. The product's size, demand, and profitability, among other considerations, should influence your fulfillment method selection.