What is Amazon warehousing and distribution? We can call it AWD because that's what they call it.

AWD is a third-party logistics, a 3PL, which you've heard me talk about on the podcast,

solution that provides low-cost, long-term, upstream, bulk inventory storage in Amazon's distribution centers

and seamless replenishment to Amazon's fulfillment centers

and your other sales and distribution channels. Is it worth it?

You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam.

In this episode, we're going to talk about Amazon's upstream supply chain and warehousing distribution.

Is it worth it?

This is a question that's actually come up a couple times over the past couple weeks

on Instagram and with members of my coaching program.

And so I wanted to kind of retouch on this offer or this service, I guess, that Amazon provides.

What is Amazon warehousing and distribution? We can call it AWD because that's what they call it.

AWD is a third party logistics, a 3PO, which you've heard me talk about on the

podcast, solution that provides low-cost, long-term, upstream bulk inventory storage in Amazon's

distribution centers and seamless replenishment to Amazon's fulfillment centers and your other sales and distribution channels.

So we have to understand how Amazon's warehouses work. There are multiple types of Amazon

warehouses. You've got Amazon fulfillment centers. These are big, huge warehouses, but this is where

orders are fulfilled. So when a customer shops on Amazon and you're doing FBA fulfillment, one of these

warehouses has your product, they grab it, they pick, pack, and ship it to a customer.

But they also have other warehouses that are upstream distribution centers, which are just

big massive storage warehouses, where they can store large quantities of

inventory that they use to replenish to these fulfillment centers. The whole purpose of these

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