Managing orders and shipping through Amazon Vendor Central involves a step-by-step process that requires attention to detail to avoid chargebacks. Let's dive into the main steps of Order Processing:
Confirming Purchase Orders: Each order, consisting of one or more items, needs to be carefully reviewed and either accepted or rejected. Rejections can be categorized as soft or hard. Soft rejections indicate temporary unavailability, while hard rejections mean the item is discontinued.
Preparing Shipment Routing Requests: Once the purchase orders are confirmed, the next step is to create routing requests or shipments. While orders heading to the same location can be grouped together for easier shipment creation, individual selection and creation are necessary for orders with different destinations.
Printing Labels: After creating shipments, labels with unique identifiers and barcodes can be printed from Vendor Central. However, generating multiple SKU labels within Vendor Central can be challenging, requiring manual merging of information onto a single label.
Advance Shipment Notice (ASN): Once the shipments are handed over to the carrier, it's important to mark them as shipped in Vendor Central. Additionally, the tracking number or Bill of Lading (BOL) number must be manually entered. Although this process is manual for each shipment, accurate recording is crucial.
Invoicing: After completing the shipments and creating ASNs, manual invoicing is required for each shipment. By selecting the shipments and creating an invoice, the invoice number should be entered manually for accurate record-keeping.
Handling orders and shipping efficiently within Amazon Vendor Central involves attention to detail at each step.
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Fedex/UPS label printing and tracking number update
BOL – Bill of Lading printing
Automatic ASN submission
Automatic Invoice submission
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