Amazon Prep Center Onboarding: What the First 30 Days Should Cover
Piedmont Warehousing & Manufacturing Support: A woman-owned, full-service warehousing and manufacturing support company exceeding expectations since 1975 Amazon charges an aged inventory cost every month on units stored longer than 181 days. It bills storage on the daily average cubic footage your inventory occupies. Restock limits cap how much you can send in at all....Continue reading→
In-House Amazon Prep vs. Outsourced Prep: Comparing the Cost Structure
Piedmont Warehousing & Manufacturing Support: A woman-owned, full-service warehousing and manufacturing support company exceeding expectations since 1975 Private industry employers paid an average of $46.89 per hour worked in June 2026. Wages accounted for $32.82 of that. Benefits accounted for the other $14.07, a full 30 percent, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employer Costs...Continue reading→
How to Choose an Amazon Prep Center: A Seller’s Evaluation Checklist
Piedmont Warehousing & Manufacturing Support: A woman-owned, full-service warehousing and manufacturing support company exceeding expectations since 1975 U.S. retail e-commerce sales reached $340.2 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 12.2 percent from the same quarter a year earlier, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales report released August 18, 2026....Continue reading→
Inventories Are Up 4.2% and the Sales Ratio Fell Anyway: Rethinking Inventory Positioning Strategy
Piedmont Warehousing & Manufacturing Support: A woman-owned, full-service warehousing and manufacturing support company exceeding expectations since 1975 Two numbers from the same Census release point in opposite directions. Merchant wholesaler inventories hit $944.7 billion at the end of June 2026, up 4.2 percent from a year earlier. The inventories-to-sales ratio fell to 1.19, down from...Continue reading→
3PL Warehousing Fees: What a Quote Actually Covers and What It Leaves to the Fine Print
Piedmont Warehousing & Manufacturing Support: A woman-owned, full-service warehousing and manufacturing support company exceeding expectations since 1975 Transportation and material moving workers in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro averaged $19.93 an hour in the most recent BLS area survey. The national mean for that group was $23.44. That gap explains more about an Upstate 3PL quote than...Continue reading→
Warehousing Near Inland Port Greer: What a Record 200,000 Rail Moves Means for Upstate Manufacturers
Piedmont Warehousing & Manufacturing Support: A woman-owned, full-service warehousing and manufacturing support company exceeding expectations since 1975 On April 28, 2026, South Carolina Ports reported a record year at Inland Port Greer: nearly 200,000 rail moves in 2025. The announcement says nothing about what happens to a container after it clears the gate. Warehousing near...Continue reading→
Amazon Ended FBA Prep. Six Months In, Sellers Are Still Paying for It.
Piedmont Warehousing & Manufacturing Support: A woman-owned, full-service warehousing and manufacturing support company exceeding expectations since 1975 Amazon FBA prep services ended on January 1, 2026. As of that date, the company no longer poly bags, bubble wraps, or applies FNSKU labels to units that arrive bare — work it had done for more than...Continue reading→
The FNSKU Mandate: What Ending Commingling Really Cost Resellers
Piedmont Warehousing & Manufacturing Support: A woman-owned, full-service warehousing and manufacturing support company exceeding expectations since 1975 On March 31, 2026, Amazon split FBA into two classes of seller. Brand owners got a $600 million gift. Everyone else got a permanent new line item. The FNSKU labeling requirements that took effect that day drew the...Continue reading→
Prep Moved South: Placement Fees, Cross-Docks, and the I-85 Advantage
Piedmont Warehousing & Manufacturing Support: A woman-owned, full-service warehousing and manufacturing support company exceeding expectations since 1975 Most sellers treat Amazon inbound placement fees as weather — something that happens to them. It isn’t. It’s a menu, and the option you pick is largely decided months earlier, by where your inventory sits before it ever...Continue reading→
Amazon’s 2026 Fee Stack: Why Prep Mistakes Cost More Than They Used To
Piedmont Warehousing & Manufacturing Support: A woman-owned, full-service warehousing and manufacturing support company exceeding expectations since 1975 Amazon FBA fee increases landed twice this year, and sellers have spent months arguing about pennies. Meanwhile the real number moved somewhere else entirely — and it moved a lot further than Amazon’s fees did. The Two Amazon...Continue reading→
A woman-owned, full-service warehousing and manufacturing support company exceeding expectations since 1975.
