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Think14 runs merchant-fulfilled Amazon orders for Dallas-Fort Worth sellers from an owned Texas warehouse. We hold your stock in our owned Austin, Texas warehouse and ship your merchant-fulfilled orders the same day, so your handling time can sit at zero and your on-time delivery rate stays where Amazon wants it.
With FBA, Amazon owns the shipping performance. The moment you switch to FBM, that performance becomes yours, and it is measured. These are the numbers that decide whether your listings stay healthy.
Amazon expects late shipments to stay under 4% of orders. Same-day dispatch from a staffed floor is the only reliable way to hold that at volume.
Above 95% of orders need working tracking uploaded. Every order we ship carries a carrier-scanned tracking number pushed back to Seller Central.
Under 2.5%. Cancels almost always mean you sold stock you did not physically have. Bin-level counts stop that.
The metric buyers feel. Shipping from central Texas puts most of the country inside a short ground window instead of relying on expensive air.
Dallas is roughly 200 miles up I-35 from our Austin floor, so your DFW customers are a one-day ground delivery rather than a three-day zone jump. For a Dallas seller that means you can advertise a delivery date your competitors shipping from the coasts cannot match on standard postage.
The hidden cost of self-shipping is not postage, it is the handling time you have to pad to stay safe. A seller packing orders between other work sets handling time to two days, which pushes the delivery promise out, which loses the sale to a competitor promising Friday instead of Tuesday. A warehouse that dispatches before cutoff every day lets you set that to zero and compete on the delivery date itself.
The instinct is to look for a 3PL inside Dallas itself, on the assumption that local stock means local speed. For the small share of your orders that actually go to DFW addresses, that is true. For the other 85 to 95 percent of your orders, a Dallas warehouse is simply a north Texas warehouse paying north Texas rent, and it ships to Phoenix, Atlanta and Chicago no faster than ours does.
What matters for a merchant-fulfilled business is the national average zone, not the home city. Austin sits closer to the population centre of the continental United States than Dallas does, which pulls down the average zone across your whole order book while still keeping DFW at one ground day. You get the local promise and the national one from the same pallet.
There is also a practical point about Texas suppliers and imports. If you buy from DFW wholesalers, they can ship to our dock on cheap intrastate freight. If you import through Houston, the container comes to us without a second stop.
Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, Arlington and Irving addresses are a single ground day from our dock, at zone 2 pricing rather than air rates.
Dallas-area suppliers deliver direct to us on short-haul intrastate freight instead of you paying to position stock twice.
Your inventory stays in one known Texas location, so your nexus picture does not change by moving fulfillment within the state.
FBM is not a downgrade from FBA. For whole categories of product it is simply the cheaper and safer channel, and the sellers who run both from one inventory pool are usually the ones with the best margins.
FBA oversize fulfillment fees and storage scale badly with cubic feet. The same unit shipped FBM from a warehouse you pay $0.50/cu.ft for is often several dollars cheaper per order. See oversize items: FBA vs 3PL.
Low-velocity SKUs attract FBA aged-inventory surcharges and eat into your IPI score. Held FBM they cost you storage and nothing else.
When restock limits block an inbound or a category needs approval you do not have yet, FBM keeps the listing live and selling instead of going out of stock.
Your Walmart, eBay, Shopify and TikTok Shop orders cannot ship from FBA stock without paying for multi-channel fulfillment. One FBM pool serves all of them.
Your Seller Central orders flow to our floor through the channel integration. No emailing spreadsheets, no manual re-entry, no missed order sitting unseen over a weekend.
Stock lives in bin locations with live counts, so the quantity Amazon shows is the quantity on the shelf. That is what keeps pre-fulfillment cancels near zero.
Packed in your branded packaging, labeled on our negotiated carrier rates, and the tracking number is back in Seller Central the same day it ships.
FBM returns are yours to handle, which is where most sellers lose the margin they saved. Ours come to one dock, get inspected, and 60-70% go back into sellable stock.
No. Our Austin warehouse reaches Dallas, Fort Worth and the wider DFW metro in one ground day at zone 2 rates. A Dallas facility would only help DFW-bound orders, which are usually a small fraction of a national order book, while costing more for everything else.
Yes. Dallas and Fort Worth wholesalers can deliver straight to our dock on intrastate freight. We receive, count, and put it away into bin locations you can see live.
Zero, once you are live with us. Orders received before our daily cutoff go out the same business day, which is what lets you safely advertise the earliest delivery date.
Yes, from the same stock. The same floor preps and forwards FBA shipments at $0.75 per unit and ships your merchant-fulfilled orders, so you are not splitting inventory between two vendors.
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