You’re busy building the business via marketing and creating products. You’re also prepping and packaging the products to ship to FBA — and you’re making sure Amazon confirms they’ve got it. Your brain feels like it’s been split and shipped to multiple locations.

A 3rd party logistic provider can make your shipments headache-free plus give you 3 additional logistical benefits.

You create a shipment on Amazon.

You’re careful to package all the boxes appropriately. You measure the boxes with a tape measure, and you weigh each box on the scale. Some of your boxes are also carefully labeled “Team Lift.” You have all the right packaging materials, and everything is labeled with the right barcodes. All shipment boxes have the shipment ID, scannable barcode, and the ship to/from address. You make sure the labels are clearly visible — in the top-center of all 4 sides of the pallet.

You hold your breath as your pallet is loaded onto the truck. And you’re still holding your breath when you don’t see the inventory showing on the Manage Inventory page.

Your freight forwarder can’t get an appointment to deliver the packages. And you’re getting an error message that the shipment doesn’t exist.

You start chasing the non-human support, hoping for a human response. But all you get is — “This case will now be resolved. Please note, that any further correspondence regarding this matter may not receive a reply.”

Imagine

You ship your orders, and they are received. Every last item is seen on your dashboard. Problems? There are people to talk to. You can speak directly to a human and get a response that resolves the issue.

What if you didn’t have to track and chase and reconcile inventory? That won’t send you on a vacation. But, it will make it easier for you to focus on the big picture.

Shipping customer orders is time-consuming and crucial to your business. If doing it by yourself or with FBA takes too much of your time, know that it’s a job that can be reliably outsourced. Your business big picture? That’s only up to you.

You can have someone reliable store, pack, and ship your products to waiting customers.

What is a fulfillment partner, and how can it help me?

A fulfillment partner, also known as third-party logistics companies (3PL), will manage inventory, process orders, and ship products for e‑commerce companies, helping the e‑commerce companies meet the demands of online sales while also growing their business.

Did you know? A fulfillment center offers warehouse and shipping services to move products quickly. A warehousing solution is meant for long-term storage.