Creating first shipment plan - large items on pallet
My first shipment has arrived in the UK and is sitting with our 3PL who is doing some prep work before sending them into Amazon. My products comes in two variations, (colours) the items are fairly large and each contained within their own product boxes, these have the following specs: L24.5cm, W24.5cm, H33cm, weight 1.01KG. I have 100 units of both variations.
The 3PL is going to add these products onto pallets for delivery to the amazon warehouse but I am confused about how best to create a shipping plan for these.
Would I create a ‘case packed template’ with 1 unit per case?
Do I need my 3PL to inform me how many units are packed onto the pallet and the resultant pallet weight?
I won’t be having any cartons as they are all individual units in their own boxes which can’t fit into cartons, so I assume I don’t need carton labels?
I understand I need to upload a BOL when using pallets, is this something I get from the 3PL/Freight Forwarder?
As you can see, I am quite stuck on this next step so would appreciate any help in how best to create the shipping plan for these units.
11 replies
Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
You treat it in exactly the same way as you would doing a box shipment.
So if it’s one item per box, that exactly what you put!
It’s at the later stages of the shipment, where you decide whether it’s a pallet or box shipment.
Julia_Amzn
Hello @ Harling_Concepts,
Welcome to Amazon and Seller Forums!
Congratulations on your first shipment 
You can refer to Send to Amazon: Step 5 - Print pallet labels to get more insides into the Bill of Lading (BoL).
Hope this helps!
Please, reach out if you have more questions.
Kind regards,
Julia,
Seller_waSKa8RgEdMIg
Thanks for the replies, much appreciated.
So based on these it sounds like the best approach would be to do a case packed template, then it would be one unit per box, and enter dimensions and weight of the box?
Then shipping mode as LTL and enter the number of pallets that my 3PL has created for me?
I understand that the process will then offer me to print my box labels and later the pallet labels. Sorry forgive me but this part confuses me somewhat, if my boxes will already have FKSKU labels on each unit, do I also need to attach the box labels then to each of the individual boxes or ignore that and then just attach the pallet labels?
Lastly, my 3PL is happy to deliver my shipment to amazon, would it better to use a amazon partnered carrier?
Seller_waSKa8RgEdMIg
Hi Neil,
That’s great, thanks for the update.
I have progressed somewhat now with creating the shipping plan and have done as suggested and selected case packed and 1 unit per box. I am still waiting to visit my 3PL to inspect the prepared stock and to see how many are packed on a pallet.
On the workflow I am at the stage where I confirm shipment information and the amazon partner carrier would be best option.
What I am confused with at the moment though is I am wanting to send in 100 units with two SKU’s. I was under the impression that each pallet has to contain only 1 SKU with pallet labels and label stating that ‘Single SKU’ on each pallet.
If you look at the attached screen though its showing two pallet configurations and 2 pallets with one configuration and the other pallet with the other configuration.
I don’t understand how I can have 3 pallets and yet they each only contain 1 SKU? Surely I need say 4 pallets, two containing one SKU and the other two for the other SKU?
Seller_waSKa8RgEdMIg
Great, ok thanks so much, its really appreciated.
I read somewhere that for pallets they need the usual 4 labels on each side but that also they need a label stating that “For single SKU pallets apply an additional label with “Single SKU” printed in highly visible colour.”
This confused me because it looks like my 3 pallets will all be mixed pallets anyway so then this does not apply.
Seller_waSKa8RgEdMIg
Neil, thanks also for your reply too, much appreciated. But where you say “I wouldn’t worry about the single SKU label. It’s not needed at all.
You can literally put 100 different types of items on a pallet with no issues at all”.
I have two SKU’s, same product two colour variations, [Langley_Projects] told me that it doesnt matter if I mix two SKU’s on the same pallet.
