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Essays on 3PL economics, Amazon prep, multi-client inventory, and the operational details nobody tells you about when you’re shopping for warehouse software.
Amazon’s FBA prep service is gone. Defect fees jumped 5–25×. Every unit you send to a fulfillment center now has to arrive already prepped — or you pay $0.32 to $1.74 per unit in penalties.
ShipHero at $2,145/month. Extensiv at $599 plus $50 per client. ScanPower at $199 plus $10 per client. We dug into why the entire SMB 3PL software market is misaligned, and what we did about it.
Most warehouse problems aren’t catastrophic. They’re small, slow, and accumulate into a chargeback fight 60 days later. Here’s how a tablet-first receiving flow surfaces them in real time.
Client A and Client B both sell the same generic 24oz sport bottle. The bottles are physically identical. The accounting systems can never treat them as the same row. Here’s how we enforce that at the database level.
