FBA Inbound Shipments

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Amazon Oversized Items - Product Size Tiers

Inventory you send to Amazon may be split into multiple shipments. Typically, Oversize packaged units will be split from Standard size items into separate shipments.(Amazon also uses the size to dete…

Updated 8 months ago

Case Quantity on FBA Inbound Shipments

Unless you have been set up on Amazon with the "Inventory Placement Service", inbound shipments will often be split into many shipments to multiple Amazon Fulfillment Centers. This can happen even ...

Updated 3 months ago

Configuring SellerCloud for FBA Inbound Shipments

Note: Make sure you are enrolled in Fulfillment by Amazon before creating an FBA Inbound Shipment.Configuring SellerCloud to allow for and optimize FBA Inbound Shipments requires several simple confi…

Updated 8 months ago

FBA Hazardous Material Policy

Amazon restricts most materials classified as "hazardous" by the US Department of Transportation, from being sent to an Amazon Fulfillment Center. Click on the link below to learn which materials are…

Updated 8 months ago

FBA Inbound Shipments Overview

Note: Make sure you are enrolled in Fulfillment by Amazon before creating an FBA Inbound Shipment. Before creating an FBA Inbound Shipment please be sure that your SellerCloud account has been conf...

Updated 3 weeks ago

FBA Inventory

FBA inventory imports into SellerCloud only if you have warehouse set for the FBA channel and Enable Inventory Health Report on the Amazon general settings page. Items set as FBM or Merchant Fulfil…

Updated 1 month ago

FBA Planning Page

Sometimes the way a item is sold on FBA is different than the way a vendor sells it. The FBA Planning  feature links the FBA items that need to be restocked to the related purchase orders and inclu…

Updated 3 weeks ago by Dimitar Ivanov

FBA Product Labels

YouTube Video FBA Product Labels are 3" x 1" labels that are stickered onto each unit to identify the unit to FBA. While you can generate FBA labels from your Seller Central account, all products i...

Updated 3 months ago

FBA Reconciliation

SellerCloud provides a reconciliation report that displays discrepancies between units that should be in FBA and that which is currently in FBA While Amazon provides a per shipment reconciliation r...

Updated 3 months ago

Import FBA Shipments from Seller Central

FBA Inbound Shipments created on Seller Central can be imported into SellerCloud. This is most often used when a seller wants Amazon to prep an item. Because there is no API call for item prep (only …

Updated 8 months ago

LTL Shipments to FBA

Amazon partners with LTL/FTL (Partial Truckload/Full Truckload) Carriers for deliveries above 150lb. These carriers will pick up and deliver your FBA Inbound Shipment at a deeply discounted rate …

Updated 8 months ago

Link FBA Inbound Shipment to PO

You can create a purchase order from the FBA Shipment. After creating a FBA Inbound Shipment, click on Create/Sync PO from the Action Menu and follow through. However, this is only a convenient meth…

Updated 8 months ago

Partially Received Shipments

Shipments that have been only partially received by Amazon can be seen on the Partially Received Shipments page under the FBA Shipment page.Shipments may be only partially received for several reason…

Updated 8 months ago

Predictive Restocking for FBA

Predictive restocking for FBA calculates the qty of products needed to be restocked at FBA to meet the expected volume of FBA  orders for a range of days. While Amazon does provide a restock report, …

Updated 2 months ago

Prepare FBA Qty

The Prepare FBA Qty feature enables you to track which items/quantities where packed for FBA. This is done by marking the items as prepared for FBA. The actual preparing can also be managed in this w…

Updated 8 months ago

Reserving Inventory for FBA Inbound Shipments

YouTube VideoReserving inventory for FBA will ensure that received inventory will not be made available on various channels before they have arrived at Amazon's Fulfillment Center. Reserving invento…

Updated 8 months ago

Shipment Box Defaults

Shipment box defaults can be set in SellerCloud from Manage Inventory > FBA Inbound Shipment > Shipment Box Defaults Set the template name, dimensions, weight and box name. Once created the default …

Updated 3 months ago by Dimitar Ivanov

Understanding FBA Errors

On this page we will attempt to document error messages that may be returned while creating and shipping an FBA Inbound Shipment.    Message …

Updated 8 months ago

Using Non-Partnered Carrier for FBA Inbound Shipments

Although Amazon gives you the option to ship to FBA using their UPS account, you can ship using a non-partnered account - whether UPS or other carrier. These instructions direct you how to shi…

Updated 8 months ago