Amazon faces logistical hardships

Amazon is now warning sellers that it cannot accept all shipments because it is currently having capacity problems in its logistics centers in Europe. This means that sellers in their turn may face failures delivering their goods to the market by the holidays.

The ecommerce giant announced its bottlenecks in logistics on its SellerCentral. As Amazon’s logistics center have reached capacity, the company said that there can be delays in booking merchant’s inventories.

The capacity problems affect Amazon’s logistics centers in several countries such as Germany, Italy, France, Spain, the Czech Republic and Poland. “If we are unable to accept your shipment, we will arrange the next available appointment directly with your carrier. We know how important the receipt of your inventory is for the holiday season and are working to resolve these capacity bottlenecks as quickly as possible”, said the marketplace.

The ecommerce giant was already expecting bottlenecks during the busiest ecommerce season. In July, Amazon already advised sellers to send inventory for the holiday season to logistics centers by August and September so that it could focus on processing customer orders during November and December.

And in October, the marketplace also announced a temporary extension of the deadline for returning goods to customers. This would give consumers more time to return goods, which means that it would increase the flow of returned goods to logistics centers.

In Germany, Amazon has already suspended incoming deliveries from DHL. In this regard, the carrier now returns the affected parcels to the sellers until further notice. According to their own words, Amazon and DHL are currently working on a solution to the problem.