By default, when you create a shipping plan, your shipment may be divided into multiple shipments, each directed to a different receive center or fulfillment center (referred to as distributed inventory placement).
The fulfillment centers are selected based on the products that you’re shipping and where you’re shipping from. Spreading your inventory across multiple fulfillment centers means that buyers may receive your products faster than they would if your inventory was located farther away. To better spread your products, we may route your shipment through a receive center, which receives units and then reships them to other fulfillment centers in our network.
Your products are available for sale as soon as we successfully receive them at any of our receive centers or fulfillment centers. Units that are being reshipped to other fulfillment centers are available for customers to buy, but customers may be shown a future ship date if no other units are available for immediate fulfillment.
You can sign up for the Inventory Placement Service and send all of your eligible inventory to a single receive center or fulfillment center (see the Inventory placement exceptions section below). When the shipment arrives, it is divided and sent to different fulfillment centers for you. A per-item service fee applies.