Peak season is here.

These two pain points are keeping FBA sellers up at night.

Every year's Amazon peak season is a golden sales period for cross-border sellers, and also an annual "trial" for first-mile logistics. Order volumes surge, but hopes of "explosive sales" often fail at this first-mile logistics stage.

What worries sellers most are these two things —

In one sentence: Amid the complex and changing logistics during peak season, what sellers need most is — a reliable partner that can "automatically track shipments, secure appointments, and intelligently avoid congestion."

Good news!

Amazon launches FIST Elite Carriers!

To help sellers precisely tackle these pain points, Amazon's FIST (FBA Inbound Shipment Tracking & Intelligent Control System) has upgraded three core functions and now launches FIST Elite carriers —‌

Amazon has established a comprehensive evaluation system from nearly a hundred FIST carriers, with strict dual entry thresholds:

✅ Higher performance metrics.

✅ Consistently high performance.

Combined with other business performance indicators, a rigorous selection identifies the FIST Elite group — this is Amazon's "best of the best" carrier selection for sellers.

FIST Elite covers FIST's three core functions targeting "inaccurate DW estimates, warehouse queues, and tracking difficulties" — giving your peak season shipments a "shot in the arm"!

‌FIST Elite carriers are premium partners selected from FIST carriers through a comprehensive evaluation, based on higher performance metrics and sustained high performance as dual entry thresholds.

FIST Elite carriers offer all three product services: FBA Shipment Tracking (ShipTrack), Delivery Window Automation (DW Automation), and Smart Redirect (SR).

When choosing FIST carriers, sellers are recommended to prioritize FIST Elite carriers.

You can find FIST Elite carriers through:

(1) Log in to Amazon Global Selling website

(2)Go to the FIST dedicated page on the SPN service provider network and filter quickly with the "FIST Elite Carrier" tag.

Besides FIST Elite, nearly a hundred FIST carriers are available. However, features supported by each carrier vary — so when choosing a carrier, based on your needs, check the corresponding service in the product tags (Delivery Window Automation / Smart Redirect / ShipTrack), and the system will automatically filter supported carriers, accurate and hassle-free.

Note: The list of FIST/FIST Elite carriers is continuously updated, and on the 20th of each month some carriers may change. Please check the latest list in time to choose a suitable logistics provider.

As mentioned, FIST Elite carriers provide three core FIST services. What are they?

ShipTrack covers all FIST partner carriers, fundamentally solving sellers' pain points of "difficult shipment tracking and tedious manual entry." Its advantages:

Full Traceability

✦One-stop integration: Integrates logistics provider systems, synchronizes shipment tracking updates in a timely manner, and displays them uniformly on the seller platform.

✦End-to-end tracking: Provides updates on key tracking milestones such as dispatched, departed, arrived, customs clearance, and delivery to warehouse, improving cross-border logistics tracking transparency.

Simplified Operations

✦Auto-fill shipment tracking IDs, simplifying seller operations and inbound processes, improving inbound efficiency.

✦Waives inbound defects caused by inaccurate tracking IDs, reducing impact on seller performance.

With Delivery Window Automation, sellers no longer need to manually update the estimated delivery window for each shipment. Partner carriers automatically update the delivery window throughout the journey based on real-time shipment status, greatly simplifying operations and improving the accuracy of estimated delivery times.

Unplanned delays are inevitable in logistics, coupled with FBA warehouse congestion, requiring queues for inbound. The Smart Redirect service automatically optimizes inbound routes based on real-time warehouse congestion — by coordinating with FIST carriers, delayed shipments are redirected to non-congested FBA warehouses, effectively reducing delay risks and achieving efficient inbound.

No extra actions or feature activation required. Sellers simply need to choose the corresponding service FIST carrier when shipping offline to start the FIST product experience.

For ShipTrack and Smart Redirect: your shipment creation process remains unchanged.

For Delivery Window Automation, simply do the following during shipment creation:

✦① Under [Delivery Window], check the default option [Allow FIST carriers to update my delivery window].

✦② In the [Carrier] section, keep the default [Non-Amazon Partnered Carrier] - [FIST carrier] checked, do not modify.

(Note: If you use trucking (LTL/FTL), you need to proceed to Step 4 to complete the delivery window entry and carrier selection. If you end the shipment creation at Step 3, Delivery Window Automation will not be applied successfully.)

⚠️Note: Both options ① and ② must be checked.

Stay calm during peak season, inbound with confidence! Instead of struggling with multiple carriers, countless tracking numbers, and stressful delay alerts, leave it to the officially selected "top performers" — ‌FIST Elite carriers‌.

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