3PL (Third-Party Logistics)
A 3PL is an outside company that stores your inventory and picks, packs, and ships your orders for you. You pay per order and per unit of storage instead of carrying…
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Fulfillment Glossary
The ecommerce fulfillment
The ecommerce fulfillment
dictionary.
Every fee, acronym, and warehouse term that shows up in your invoices and seller dashboards — defined in plain English, with what it actually costs you. Written for Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and Etsy sellers.
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FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon)
FBA is Amazon's fulfillment program: you ship inventory into Amazon's warehouses, and Amazon stores it, picks and packs orders, ships them with Prime delivery, and…
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FBM means the seller — not Amazon — stores the inventory and ships the order when it sells. You keep control of packaging, inventory, and margin, and you take on the…
Read definitionFNSKU
An FNSKU is the barcode Amazon assigns to identify one seller's specific units inside its warehouses. Applied to every unit sent into FBA, it ties that physical item…
Read definitionFulfillment Center
A fulfillment center is a warehouse built specifically to ship individual customer orders rather than store goods long-term. Its layout, staffing, and daily rhythm…
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Landed Cost
Landed cost is the true all-in cost of getting one unit onto your shelf and ready to sell — the product price plus freight, duties, tariffs, insurance, handling, and…
Read definitionLast Mile Delivery
Last mile delivery is the final leg of a shipment — from the local carrier facility to the customer's door. It's the most expensive segment per package, the slowest…
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Safety Stock
Safety stock is the buffer inventory you deliberately hold beyond forecast demand to absorb the two things that always go wrong: sales spiking higher than expected…
Read definitionShipping Zones
Shipping zones are the distance bands carriers use to price and schedule domestic parcels, numbered roughly 1 through 8 from your origin. The farther the zone, the…
Read definitionSKU (Stock Keeping Unit)
A SKU is the unique code you assign to one specific, sellable version of a product — a single size, color, and pack quantity. It's how your store, your warehouse…
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