On September 1, local time , Amazon officially issued a press release announcing that it is launching a new distribution solution for sellers, Amazon Warehousing & Distribution ( AWD ) .

It is understood that Amazon's new program is designed to provide low-cost long-term storage, giving sellers the option to store inventory in Amazon's distribution centers and seamlessly replenish them to fulfillment centers, when sellers can use new, purpose-built logistics facilities for bulk shipments Merchandise storage and automated delivery .

According to Amazon, AWD will help sellers address key supply chain challenges, allowing them to better grow and manage their businesses while slashing costs.

In recent years , global inventory backup storage and distribution have faced significant challenges due to supply chain constraints . For many sellers, the processes required to manage logistics and operations such as inventory storage, fulfillment, and order fulfillment are increasingly onerous, laborious and financially expensive.

In fact, according to the latest survey of Amazon sellers in the United States , high warehousing prices, complex charging structure, and insufficient warehousing capacity have become the three major pain points for sellers in the upstream warehousing and distribution business .

Based on this, Amazon is preparing to launch the AWD service to provide sellers with a simple pay-as-you-go service, and then sellers can get rid of the time-consuming and tedious process of transferring inventory from upstream facilities to Amazon 's distribution centers.

Amazon says AWD enables just-in -time supply chain services, allowing sellers to integrate their upstream inventory storage operations with the Amazon fulfillment network, ensuring they always have the right amount of inventory in the right place at the right time, and dramatically reducing storage costs. , inventory management and operational efficiency will no longer be the biggest headaches for sellers .

It is reported that sellers using AWD can use the service to consolidate their global inventory, which can then be viewed and managed in Seller Central, simplifying their inventory management with an inventory pool. By 2023, sellers will be able to use AWD to send their inventory anywhere, including wholesale customers or brick-and-mortar stores.

What’s more, Amazon says it’s simple , with sellers sending inventory to Amazon fulfillment centers with just one click . Sellers using the service will reduce storage costs without having to wrestle with complex pricing schemes and contracts .

Harris Chan, senior business manager of AmaMax, said that the key to this solution is automatic replenishment and bulk commodity processing , which just solves the long -standing problem of Amazon sellers. Even though he has more than 10 years of Amazon seller experience, he still feels very uncomfortable facing this problem. Headache.

Amazon said it will share a slew of new services at Amazon Accelerate , its annual seller conference on Sept. 14-15, which will also include a more in-depth and comprehensive look at AWD.