Speeding up labelling for FBA shipments
Hello,
I have a number of low price fast selling items I sell through FBA. These items arrive from my supplier on pallets. I am looking for some advice on speeding up my processing.
For one SKU, I receive 1000 units on a pallet. The manufacturer packs the items in 100 cartons per pallet, 10 units per carton. I have tried to negotiate bigger cartons with more units, but I’ve had no success.
If I wanted to send these items to Amazon, I would have to label each box which is time consuming. What I have been doing is putting them in bigger boxes. This means less labelling but more packing work. I had hoped I could just send the whole pallet, but after looking into it, I realise I would still need to label each carton on the pallet.
I feel I am missing a trick somewhere as I seem to spend most of my time reconfiguring and labelling boxes. I’m sure that some of you are in a similar situation and probably shipping far more units than me. Can anyone advice me on how I can improve my inefficient set up?
Thank you for your help,
Aaron.
8 replies
Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
I’m not entirely sure why you want to negotiate bigger cartons, when on the example you have given, it is literally only 100 cartons. That’s really not a hardship to label, especially if it’s comingled inventory.
For labelling, it’s really is just a matter of practice. The more you do, the quicker you get.
I can go through somewhere in the region of 5-10k units each week.
I do spend a fair bit of time labelling things, but then I don’t spend that time packaging and posting said items. So overall, a lot of time saved.
It really is just about being organised.
Seller_iBrSIJDZKlsXi
agree with Neil.
We are shipping to FBA about 7000 units per week on average and it is not much of a trouble, so seems like you might be overthinking 100 boxes here.
Seller_I0uM6evy2c29B
Cheers guys, I appreciate labelling boxes is not as hard as working down a coal mine. I was just hoping to cut out as much unnecessary work as possible.
Now that I am moving to pallet deliveries to Amazon, my routine will be:
- Get multiple pallets delivered with multiple SKUs
- Break apart each pallet
- Label a few hundred cartons
- Rebuild all pallets
- Get pallets delivered to Amazon
It just seems silly to me that I have to pull apart all the pallets just to put them back together again. I was hoping I could get around this some how.
