Received: from mm-retail-out-1104.amazon.com ([207.171.165.136]:33310) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Skb2J-0003Tj-8f for treasurer@lojban.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 06:15:09 -0700 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=amazon.com; i=no-reply@amazon.com; q=dns/txt; s=rte02; t=1340975715; x=1372511715; h=content-transfer-encoding:reply-to:mime-version: message-id:subject:date:to:from; bh=mTyQ7wgv1mjK8CDJmNp0pwNLYIqQFoB04nU5VUyWkvU=; b=ETtuwJAU/nwqpIZfYJF86wXguy9wNxGiW28sMjhdgJDa6sqhBhFa1enS p6KfFQ4F3Z8GOK+vCr166PmnHD3mow==; Received: from mktomail.com ([172.28.0.48]) by amazoneu-rel.mktdns.com (StrongMail Enterprise 4.1.1.6(4.1.1.6-56715)); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:17:29 -0500 X-VirtualServer: eu-vsg49-amazoneu, amazoneu-rel.mktdns.com, 172.28.5.49 X-VirtualServerGroup: eu-vsg49-amazoneu X-MailingID: 1297417770::amazoneuBetacust-4465-18909-1-7171-prod-27452::27452::0::2102761865-1::9941 X-SMHeaderMap: mid="X-MailingID" X-Destination-ID: treasurer@lojban.org X-SMFBL: dHJlYXN1cmVyQGxvamJhbi5vcmc= Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_AEA6_74B0DC51.19495CFF" X-PVIQ: 000326-000757-004465-000000-018836 X-Report-Abuse: Please report abuse here: http://www.marketo.com/policy Reply-To: no-reply@amazon.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1297417770.9941@amazon.com> Subject: FBA Newsletter June 2012 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:17:29 -0500 To: treasurer@lojban.org From: "Fulfillment by Amazon" X-Spam-Score: -0.1 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.1 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / ------=_NextPart_001_AEA6_74B0DC51.19495CFF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline From the editor Greetings from Fulfillment by Amazon, As June comes to a close, we’re excited to share some news, tools and tips to help you make the most of your online sales throughout the summer. We know you would rather be outside in the sunshine than indoors packaging, shipping and handling customer service – and we’re glad to help you get there. Of particular interest this month are the new Inventory Placement Service and the new inbound compliance tools. We hope these improvements will make the process of sending your inventory to our fulfillment centers more seamless, and will help you get your products in front of customers faster. Read on below for more details. -------------------------------------- FBA News -------------------------------------- Inventory Placement Service enables sellers to consolidate shipments On June 6, we expanded FBA's inbound shipping options to provide you with more choices for how your inventory is distributed to Amazon’s fulfillment centers. You can now choose to combine multiple shipments of a single Merchant SKU for a per-unit fee. From within your FBA Settings page, you can set your preference for the Distributed Inventory Placement or the Inventory Placement Service. Distributed Inventory Placement (default option): Amazon will determine the distribution of your inventory among one or more fulfillment centers during the shipment creation process. This may include multiple shipments for individual Merchant SKUs. Inventory Placement Service: All quantities of a single Merchant SKU will be assigned to a single fulfillment center determined by Amazon during the shipment creation process. A per-unit service fee applies. This options are the result of our continued evaluation of inbound shipping requirements and our review of sellers feedback. We recognize that every business is unique, and a range of shipping solutions may be required for you and your suppliers, and this expanded Inventory Placement Option helps provide that choice. Please visit FBA Inventory Placement (Sign in required): https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/help-popup.html/?itemID=200735910 Or visit your Fulfillment by Amazon Settings (Sign in required): https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/ssof/configuration/index.html/ -------------------------------------- Seller Survey Results We recently conducted a survey of sellers to collect feedback about Fulfillment by Amazon. Below are some of our key findings: - 87% of the respondents reported that their unit sales increased on Amazon.com since joining FBA. Of those sellers, 61% reported an increase in sales on Amazon.com of 20% or more. (This excludes sellers who reported being too new to accurately answer.) - The two primary reasons for joining FBA identified by the respondents were “Increased Sales” and “Enables Me to Focus on Other Aspects of My Business.” These two categories accounted for 75.5% of the responses. - The two primary benefits of using Multi-Channel Fulfillment identified by the respondents were “Maintaining a single pool of inventory across all sales channels” (37%) and “The cost of fulfillment and shipping is competitive” (23%). We also used the survey to collect suggestions and recommendations to help us prioritize new features. We value sellers’ feedback tremendously, and our newly launched Inventory Placement Service is a great example of a new development affected by seller feedback. -------------------------------------- Tools & Tips -------------------------------------- Duplicate an FBA Shipment If you frequently send the same products to Amazon fulfillment centers, you can now quickly create a new shipment of inventory based on an existing shipment by clicking the "Duplicate Shipment" button. To get started, go the shipment summary of any shipment and click the "Duplicate Shipment" button at the bottom of the screen. Just enter the name of your new shipment and click "Create Duplicate Shipment." The same Merchant SKUs, quantities, and shipping preferences will be applied to your new shipment. You can add or remove products and change quantities or settings as needed. -------------------------------------- Replenish Low or Out-of-Stock inventory with Amazon Selling Coach Amazon Selling Coach is a feature that recommends actions FBA sellers could take to help increase sales and in-stock rates. The Low or Out-of-Stock notification informs sellers which of their products sold on Amazon are running low on stock or are out-of-stock. To enable sellers to quickly replenish their FBA inventory, we have added a button and placed it in the Business Reports tab above the Low or Out-of-Stock items. This button automatically converts the list of Low or Out-of-Stock products into the shipment creation workflow to facilitate ease of replenishment within your Seller Account. This tool helps you replenish inventory quickly. For assistance in determining the quantity, try using the Inventory Health Report under Fulfillment Reports. Learn more about Amazon Selling Coach: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=200411160 -------------------------------------- Ensure Scannability of your FBA Labels On June 6, 2012, we updated the Stickered Inventory requirements with information about label and printer requirements, how to design and print your own labels and what specifications to use. If you are designing and printing your own FBA labels, following the label standards described in the guidelines will help ensure quick and accurate receipt of your products in the Amazon fulfillment center. Learn more about Stickered Inventory: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/ customer/display.html/?nodeId=200243200 -------------------------------------- Updated Packaging Requirements Protecting your inventory at our fulfillment centers and during shipment to customers is important to us. You want to make sure that you package your products in a secure fashion. On June 19, 2012, we updated the Packaging and Prep Requirements for inventory shipped to and stored in Amazon fulfillment centers with additional information for specific products, including: - Baby Products: Products intended for children three years old and younger - Small Products: Products that are smaller than the length of a credit card Please review the Help content for updates relating to your inventory. Learn more about Packaging and Prep Requirements: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=200243250 -------------------------------------- Regards, The Fulfillment by Amazon Team -------------------------------------- We hope you found this message to be useful. However, if you'd rather not receive future e-mails of this sort from Amazon Services, please opt-out here: http://www.amazonservices.com/content/unsubscribe.htm (c) 2012 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon, Amazon.com and the Amazon.com logo are registered trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Amazon.com, 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210 - ------=_NextPart_001_AEA6_74B0DC51.19495CFF Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline FBA Seller Update

 

FBA Merchant Update
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  reminders

Get helpful info with Amazon Selling Coach

Trying to fill a potential untapped sales gap? Not sure what else to consider listing with FBA? Amazon Selling Coach can help provide you with tips on how to improve your sales with weekly e-mail notices that target your specific interests and needs. Enter an e-mail address for the weekly notices and check the boxes for the tips that interest you.

To get started, sign into your seller account and go to Settings > Notification Preferences or copy the URL below into your browser:
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/
gp/seller/configuration/
notificationOptions.html

Let us label for you

With the FBA Label Service, we label qualifying products for you. If you enable the FBA Label Service, a fee of $0.20 will be charged for each Unit that we label. With each shipment you create, your, default option will be to have us label for you, but you can still choose to label Units in a shipment yourself, and you won't be charged for Units that you label yourself.

To get started, go to your Fulfillment by Amazon Settings page and enable the FBA Label Service. You can change your default settings for the FBA Label Service at any time.

Learn more about the FBA Label Service:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/
customer/display.html/?nodeId=
200685690

 

  useful links

From the editor

Greetings from Fulfillment by Amazon,

As June comes to a close, we’re excited to share some news, tools and tips to help you make the most of your online sales throughout the summer. We know you would rather be outside in the sunshine than indoors packaging, shipping and handling customer service – and we’re glad to help you get there.

Of particular interest this month are the new Inventory Placement Service and the new inbound compliance tools. We hope these improvements will make the process of sending your inventory to our fulfillment centers more seamless, and will help you get your products in front of customers faster. Read on below for more details.

  FBA News

Inventory Placement Service enables sellers to consolidate shipments

On June 6, we expanded FBA's inbound shipping options to provide you with more choices for how your inventory is distributed to Amazon’s fulfillment centers. You can now choose to combine multiple shipments of a single Merchant SKU for a per-unit fee. From within your FBA Settings page, you can set your preference for the Distributed Inventory Placement or the Inventory Placement Service.

Distributed Inventory Placement (default option):  Amazon will determine the distribution of your inventory among one or more fulfillment centers during the shipment creation process. This may include multiple shipments for individual Merchant SKUs.

Inventory Placement Service: All quantities of a single Merchant SKU will be assigned to a single fulfillment center determined by Amazon during the shipment creation process. A per-unit service fee applies.

This options are the result of our continued evaluation of inbound shipping requirements and our review of sellers feedback. We recognize that every business is unique, and a range of shipping solutions may be required for you and your suppliers, and this expanded Inventory Placement Option helps provide that choice.

Please visit FBA Inventory Placement (Sign in required):
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/help-popup.html/?itemID=200735910

Or visit your Fulfillment by Amazon Settings (Sign in required):
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/ssof/configuration/index.html/

Seller Survey Results

We recently conducted a survey of sellers to collect feedback about Fulfillment by Amazon. Below are some of our key findings:

  • 87% of the respondents reported that their unit sales increased on Amazon.com since joining FBA. Of those sellers, 61% reported an increase in sales on Amazon.com of 20% or more. (This excludes sellers who reported being too new to accurately answer.)
  • The two primary reasons for joining FBA identified by the respondents were “Increased Sales” and “Enables Me to Focus on Other Aspects of My Business.” These two categories accounted for 75.5% of the responses.
  • The two primary benefits of using Multi-Channel Fulfillment identified by the respondents were “Maintaining a single pool of inventory across all sales channels” (37%) and “The cost of fulfillment and shipping is competitive” (23%).

We also used the survey to collect suggestions and recommendations to help us prioritize new features. We value sellers’ feedback tremendously, and our newly launched Inventory Placement Service is a great example of a new development affected by seller feedback.

  Tools & Tips

Duplicate an FBA Shipment

If you frequently send the same products to Amazon fulfillment centers, you can now quickly create a new shipment of inventory based on an existing shipment by clicking the "Duplicate Shipment" button.

To get started, go the shipment summary of any shipment and click the "Duplicate Shipment" button at the bottom of the screen. Just enter the name of your new shipment and click "Create Duplicate Shipment." The same Merchant SKUs, quantities, and shipping preferences will be applied to your new shipment. You can add or remove products and change quantities or settings as needed.

Replenish Low or Out-of-Stock inventory with Amazon Selling Coach

Amazon Selling Coach is a feature that recommends actions FBA sellers could take to help increase sales and in-stock rates. The Low or Out-of-Stock notification informs sellers which of their products sold on Amazon are running low on stock or are out-of-stock. To enable sellers to quickly replenish their FBA inventory, we have added a button and placed it in the Business Reports tab above the Low or Out-of-Stock items. This button automatically converts the list of Low or Out-of-Stock products into the shipment creation workflow to facilitate ease of replenishment within your Seller Account. This tool helps you replenish inventory quickly. For assistance in determining the quantity, try using the Inventory Health Report under Fulfillment Reports.

Learn more about Amazon Selling Coach:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/
?nodeId=200411160

Ensure Scannability of your FBA Labels

On June 6, 2012, we updated the Stickered Inventory requirements with information about label and printer requirements, how to design and print your own labels and what specifications to use. If you are designing and printing your own FBA labels, following the label standards described in the guidelines will help ensure quick and accurate receipt of your products in the Amazon fulfillment center.

Learn more about Stickered Inventory:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/ customer/display.html/
?nodeId=200243200

Updated Packaging Requirements

Protecting your inventory at our fulfillment centers and during shipment to customers is important to us.  You want to make sure that you package your products in a secure fashion. On June 19, 2012, we updated the Packaging and Prep Requirements for inventory shipped to and stored in Amazon fulfillment centers with additional information for specific products, including:

  • Baby Products: Products intended for children three years old and younger
  • Small Products: Products that are smaller than the length of a credit card

Please review the Help content for updates relating to your inventory.

Learn more about Packaging and Prep Requirements:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/
?nodeId=200243250

 

Regards,
The Fulfillment by Amazon Team
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