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Think14 runs merchant-fulfilled Amazon orders for Los Angeles sellers from an owned warehouse in Austin, Texas. 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.
Most sellers importing from Asia default to a Los Angeles 3PL because that is where the container lands. It is worth questioning: LA storage is expensive, LA is a corner of the map for national shipping, and holding inventory in California has tax consequences that holding it in Texas does not.
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.
Landing at Long Beach and fulfilling from Long Beach feels efficient, and for the first leg it is. The problem is every leg after that. Los Angeles is at the edge of the country, so a majority of your orders ship across most of it, and you pay the zone for every single one.
Central Texas inverts that. The inbound leg is longer and you pay it once per container. The outbound leg is shorter and you pay it on every order you ever ship. For anything beyond a handful of units a month, the arithmetic is not close.
There is a second reason that catches sellers out. Inventory stored in California creates a California connection for your business in a way that Texas inventory does not, and California is among the more demanding states to be connected to. Our sales tax guides cover what that actually means.
One inbound linehaul per container against a shorter outbound zone on every order for the life of the stock.
Your stock sits in Texas. Whatever obligations you have in California, warehouse storage is not adding to them.
$0.50 per cubic foot, against Southern California warehousing that has been among the tightest and priciest markets in the country.
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.
Usually yes. You pay the inland move once per container; you pay the outbound shipping zone on every order forever. Central Texas lowers that recurring cost for a national order book. If nearly all your customers are in California, that changes the answer.
Two to three ground days to Southern California addresses. Shipping the same day the order lands recovers much of that against a seller who pads handling time.
Inventory location is one of the things that creates a connection to a state, so Texas storage means Texas, not California. That said, your own business location and sales volumes matter too, so read our California guide or ask us.
Yes. Your forwarder or drayage provider delivers to our Austin dock and we receive, count and shelve against your packing list.
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