Bulk inbound into AWD, auto-replenishment into FBA tuned SKU by SKU, and fee discounts kept rather than lost, owned by a senior operator who works your account every day.
AWD is a good deal on paper. Bulk storage at a flat monthly rate per cubic foot with no Q4 surcharge, cartons and pallets shipped in straight from the port, and Amazon moving units into its fulfillment centers as they sell. For a brand boxed in by FBA restock limits it looks like the answer, and often it is.
The trouble starts after enrolment. Auto-replenishment gets switched on and left alone, so the slow SKU drips into FBA and ages there while the fast one waits upstream. Cartons arrive mixed or mislabelled and stall at receiving, now that Amazon no longer preps or labels anything for you. And nobody checks whether each SKU still clears the auto-replenishment threshold that keeps the Smart Storage discount and the FBA fee waivers, so the savings that justified the move quietly disappear.
Because AWD sits one step upstream of FBA, its mistakes surface late: as a stockout on the listing, a fee line nobody recognises, or a box count that never matched what left the factory.
We build the AWD shipment, confirm case-pack and carton labelling requirements with your factory or forwarder before cargo leaves origin, book your own carrier or Amazon’s partnered option, and reconcile boxes received against boxes shipped.
Replenishment into FBA is set and reviewed SKU by SKU against real sell-through, so fulfillment centers hold the cover they need and no more. Where automation is wrong for a SKU, we run manual transfers instead and tell you why.
Each SKU is tracked against the auto-replenishment share and days-of-cover thresholds that decide the Smart Storage rate and the FBA fee waivers. The ones about to fall out get fixed before Amazon’s monthly assessment, not explained after the invoice.
Not every SKU belongs in AWD. We decide per SKU whether upstream stock sits in AWD, goes straight to FBA, or stays at a 3PL, based on size eligibility, velocity, and what each route really costs once storage, processing, and transportation are counted.
If you also sell on Walmart, Shopify, TikTok Shop, or wholesale, we use AWD’s multi-channel distribution to send stock from the same pool to your 3PL or retail partners, so one inventory position serves every channel.
Short receipts at AWD, boxes lost inside a distribution center, and units that go missing between AWD and FBA are reconciled and claimed through Selling Partner Support inside the filing window, with the evidence attached.
Handing over standing access to your selling account is a real decision. This is the whole list, area by area, with the permission level each one needs and why it is not more.
Creating AWD shipments, changing replenishment settings, and requesting transfers into FBA are all write actions. Editing is confined to moving inventory; we do not touch listings, prices, or promotions.
Transfers out of AWD arrive as FBA shipments that need tracking to receipt, and SKUs AWD will not take still go to FBA directly through Send to Amazon.
Excess and aged-stock actions are write actions, and they are time-sensitive. The point of AWD is lost if the stock it feeds into FBA ages there.
A claim has to be filed, evidenced, and argued. AWD discrepancies need a case opened with Selling Partner Support, and the filing window is short.
Reporting is read-only by nature. AWD inventory, replenishment history, and fee detail are all in reports, without touching customer records.
How access is granted, logged, and revoked is set out in full on our security page.
With the bulk of your stock upstream, FBA only needs to hold weeks of cover. That keeps you inside restock limits and FBA capacity without turning away sales.
Units that would otherwise sit in FBA for months, or in an overflow 3PL, wait in AWD at a lower flat rate with no Q4 storage surcharge, then move to FBA as they sell.
Replenishment into FBA is continuous and tuned per SKU, so a container that lands once a quarter does not become a stockout in week ten.
The Smart Storage rate and the FBA fee waivers are earned SKU by SKU and lost the same way. Watching the thresholds every week is what keeps the savings that justified moving into AWD.
Cartons are reconciled from origin into AWD, and units from AWD into FBA. The two hand-offs are where stock goes missing, and both get checked.
Multi-channel distribution lets the same AWD inventory feed FBA, your 3PL, and retail partners, so allocation is decided once instead of by whichever channel reorders first.
Each of our operators works under their own named user on your account, created by you, with only the permissions the agreed scope needs. We will not accept a shared login, and we will not accept credentials sent over email or chat.
We ask for edit access only where the task is a write action, and view access everywhere else. If a permission is offered that the scope does not need, we decline it. The table above is the whole list.
Because access is per person rather than shared, the account history shows which operator did what. We keep our own access logs alongside it.
Access is yours to withdraw without notice to us. When an engagement ends we also revoke from our side, close the operator accounts, hand back the working documents, and delete the operational records we hold.
The company behind this service, our credentials, and what the brands we run operations for say about the work are set out on our testimonials page.
We publish the engagements where the numbers are ours to share, including a 3PL invoice audit that recovered $6,047. AWD adds two more places for boxes and fees to go wrong, at the distribution center and in transit to FBA, and the same line-by-line reconciliation is what catches them.
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