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A long weekend can delay a shipment before it even moves. 📦If your freight touches France or Poland around Assumption Da...
14/08/2026

A long weekend can delay a shipment before it even moves. 📦

If your freight touches France or Poland around Assumption Day (15 August), don't assume everything will run as normal until Monday. Warehouses, terminals, customs brokers, carriers and local transport partners may operate with reduced staff or remain closed. Even if your truck is on schedule, one unavailable handover point can push delivery into the following week.

Before Friday, confirm these five points with your freight forwarder:
🔹 Pickup and delivery windows – Verify that both the loading site and final receiving warehouse are open and able to accept freight on the planned dates.
🔹 Cross-border routing – Ask whether your shipment will pass through terminals affected by the holiday. Alternative routes may already be operating with limited capacity.
🔹 Driver availability and transit restrictions – Public holidays can bring temporary HGV driving bans or reduced operating hours in several European countries, changing planned transit times.
🔹 Customs and documentation readiness – For non-EU or customs-controlled shipments, ensure all paperwork has been completed before offices close. Missing documents may leave freight waiting until the next working day.
🔹 Amazon booking status – If your shipment is heading to an Amazon Fulfilment Centre, confirm that the delivery appointment remains valid. A missed slot often requires rebooking, extending inbound timelines.

A short holiday can create a longer queue. Carriers return with accumulated freight, unloading schedules tighten, and available transport capacity fills quickly during the first working days after the break. Planning these checks before Friday is often the difference between staying on schedule and losing several business days.

Which of these five checks has prevented the biggest delay in your operations?

⚠️ Holiday fulfillment costs don't stop at the standard FBA fee.Amazon has confirmed a Peak Fulfillment Surcharge for th...
13/08/2026

⚠️ Holiday fulfillment costs don't stop at the standard FBA fee.
Amazon has confirmed a Peak Fulfillment Surcharge for the October–January holiday period, adding another cost layer to eligible FBA orders during the busiest months of the year.

For sellers, that means fulfillment costs should be evaluated as a combination of several components:
🔹 Base FBA fulfillment fee
🔹 Peak fulfillment surcharge (October–January)
🔹 Low inventory level fee (where applicable)
🔹 Storage fees, including higher Q4 storage rates
🔹 Aged inventory surcharges for long-stored stock

The impact goes beyond a few extra cents per order. Products with tight margins, oversized dimensions or high seasonal sales volumes can see a noticeable increase in total fulfillment costs.

Planning ahead becomes especially important when:
🔹 Setting holiday pricing
🔹 Forecasting inventory for Q4
🔹 Scheduling inbound shipments
🔹 Calculating promotional margins for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Operationally, this is a good time to review SKU profitability before peak demand accelerates. Small fee changes multiplied across thousands of orders can significantly affect holiday margins.

Heat changes packaging performance before it changes the product. 📦August temperatures put extra pressure on warehouse o...
11/08/2026

Heat changes packaging performance before it changes the product. 📦

August temperatures put extra pressure on warehouse operations, especially for products that contain liquids, adhesives, cosmetics, supplements, confectionery, candles or other heat-sensitive materials. Protecting inventory starts long before it reaches the Amazon fulfilment centre.

Here's how our prep floors adapt during the hottest weeks of summer:
🔹 Temperature-sensitive products are prioritised for earlier receiving and packing windows, reducing the time they spend in warmer conditions.
🔹 Workflows are staggered throughout the day so the most heat-sensitive orders move during the coolest operating hours.
🔹 Packaging is adjusted where required, using stronger cartons, reinforced sealing methods and additional protective materials to minimise the risk of deformation or leakage during transport.
🔹 Pallets awaiting collection are managed carefully to reduce unnecessary exposure before carrier pickup.

These operational adjustments help reduce preventable damage, rejected inbound shipments and customer returns. During periods of extreme heat, small process changes can make a measurable difference to product condition when inventory reaches Amazon.

How do you prepare heat-sensitive inventory before sending it into your fulfilment network?

Customs documentation for China-origin FBA shipments now requires more attention than many sellers expect. 📦Following th...
10/08/2026

Customs documentation for China-origin FBA shipments now requires more attention than many sellers expect. 📦

Following the July reset of duty exemptions, customs brokers have tightened the shipment data they request before clearance. Missing or inconsistent information can trigger additional questions, documentation requests, or processing delays.

🔹 Review product descriptions before shipping: they should be specific enough for customs classification.
🔹 Verify that HS codes, declared values, and importer details remain consistent across all shipment documents.
🔹 Confirm your broker's latest data requirements before your cargo leaves China, as documentation expectations may differ from earlier in the year.

Small data gaps at origin often become larger operational delays once shipments reach the EU. Keeping documentation complete from the start helps reduce unnecessary interruptions in your inbound flow and protects inventory availability.

Read the full article here: https://fbaforwarding.eu/eu-customs-clearance-for-amazon-fba-how-better-documentation-helps-avoid-inbound-delays-af/

A removal order becomes more expensive the longer it waits. 📦Many sellers focus on the removal fee itself. The bigger co...
06/08/2026

A removal order becomes more expensive the longer it waits. 📦

Many sellers focus on the removal fee itself. The bigger cost often comes from everything that happens before Amazon processes the request.
🔹 Extra storage fees continue to accumulate while aged inventory sits in the fulfillment center.
🔹 As late summer approaches, removal queues grow longer as sellers prepare for Q4, extending the time inventory remains chargeable.
🔹 Delaying removals also reduces the time available to inspect, refurbish, relabel, or replenish inventory before peak season.
By September, you're often paying for additional storage and working against tighter warehouse capacity and longer processing times.

Removal timing has a direct impact on both margin and Q4 readiness. 📉

When do you typically review your aged FBA inventory: every month, or only when storage fees start climbing?

Since June 19, 2026, EU shoppers can cancel an online order with the same one click they used to buy it. No email chains...
05/08/2026

Since June 19, 2026, EU shoppers can cancel an online order with the same one click they used to buy it. No email chains, no return forms, no "contact us" maze. It's law now, EU-wide (Directive 2023/2673), and six weeks on, we're watching how it's actually playing out on the floor.

Here's what we're seeing shift:
⚡ Initiation feels instant now. Customers used to sit on the decision for days. That hesitation gap is disappearing: the button removes the last excuse to delay.
🔍 Signal comes in cleaner. A withdrawal click is now clearly separated from a complaint, a support ticket, or a "where's my order" message. That means less noise, faster triage.
📦 Ops teams need to move earlier. With initiation happening faster, the window between "customer decided" and "item needs handling" is shrinking, which puts pressure on restocking and inspection to keep pace.
🧩 Pattern-spotting gets a head start. Sizing issues, damage-in-transit, mismatched listings: the sooner returns get flagged, the sooner sellers can catch the why, not just the what.

Six weeks after implementation, the impact is already visible. Returns are moving through the system differently, and the operational effects are starting to show.

If your floor isn't set up to catch that signal fast, now's the time to fix it.

Poland's higher motorway tolls don't stay on the motorway. 💸Poland's updated e-TOLL rates for heavy goods vehicles are n...
03/08/2026

Poland's higher motorway tolls don't stay on the motorway. 💸

Poland's updated e-TOLL rates for heavy goods vehicles are now in effect, increasing a transport cost that eventually works its way into many forwarding quotes. The revised rates apply alongside changes to the toll network, affecting trucks over 3.5 tonnes.

🔹 Every truck movement between your supplier, prep center, and Amazon FC becomes slightly more expensive.
🔹 Multi-stop routes feel the increase more than direct deliveries.
🔹 Smaller shipments are usually affected more on a per-unit basis because fixed transport costs are spread across fewer products.
🔹 Efficient load planning and shipment consolidation become even more valuable when road costs rise.

One toll increase rarely changes your landed cost on its own. Combined with warehousing, labor, fuel, and carrier pricing, however, it can gradually reduce product margins.

📦 Has your logistics partner already adjusted its forwarding strategy to account for the latest road pricing changes?

From the Forwarding Hub: Setting Up for High-Volume AugustAugust sneaks up fast — and if you're an FBA seller, you alrea...
28/07/2026

From the Forwarding Hub: Setting Up for High-Volume August

August sneaks up fast — and if you're an FBA seller, you already know what's coming: post-summer restocks, Q3 inbound pushes, and the tail end of the Les Soldes returns wave all landing at once.

Here's what we've already got in motion at our Poland and Germany facilities so it doesn't land on your plate as a surprise:
📦 Extra staffing rotations booked — more hands on the floor before the volume hits, not after.
🚛 Pre-allocated pallet lanes for Q3 inbound — dock and lane capacity reserved now, so incoming freight doesn't get stuck queuing behind everyone else's "we'll figure it out in August" scramble.
↩️ Dedicated returns triage capacity — set aside specifically for the Les Soldes close wave, so return processing doesn't bottleneck your outbound prep.

Planning for peak before it's peak is the whole point of a forwarding partner. No fire drills, no "we're a bit backed up right now" emails — just capacity that was already waiting for you.

Getting ready for August yourself?

Amazon shows units "received." Your warehouse can't find them. That's phantom inventory 📦 — and Q3's shipment surge make...
24/07/2026

Amazon shows units "received." Your warehouse can't find them. That's phantom inventory 📦 — and Q3's shipment surge makes it worse.

⚠️ You have an 18-month window to file discrepancy claims, but most sellers reconcile only once a year, which means old claims and lost margin.

Do this monthly instead: → Pull Shipment Reconciliation + Received Inventory reports → Cross-check shipped vs. received vs. in-stock units → File discrepancies immediately, while shipment details are fresh

Monthly reconciliation = an hour of work. Annual reconciliation = a scramble and write-offs.

How often does your team reconcile shipments: monthly, or "whenever there's time"?

"Recovery rate" sounds like an abstract number on a report. Here's what it actually looks like on the table at FBA Servi...
23/07/2026

"Recovery rate" sounds like an abstract number on a report.

Here's what it actually looks like on the table at FBA Services by FLEX. 👇
1️⃣ Removal order lands — every unit gets logged the moment it hits our dock.
2️⃣ We open it. Every time. No guessing based on the outer box.
3️⃣ Clean the product — dust, residue, fingerprints, gone.
4️⃣ Replace the packaging — torn boxes and crushed inserts swapped for fresh retail packaging.
5️⃣ Fresh FNSKU label applied and double-checked.
6️⃣ Quality check — function, condition, packaging, labeling all have to pass.
7️⃣ Routed back to FBA for full-price resale.

That's what "recovery rate" really means: how many returns make it through all seven steps and land back on the shelf as new, instead of getting written off or liquidated for pennies.

Slow, hands-on work, but it's the difference between eating a loss on every return and getting that inventory back.

Curious what your recovery rate looks like? That's exactly what we dig into.

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