Prepare FBA Qty

Overview 

Preparing FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) Quantity allows you to maximize your FBA inventory utilization and maintain optimal stock levels. It helps you ensure that your products are correctly prepared and compliant with Amazon’s requirements.

Prepare FBA Qty

Proper preparation, packaging, and labeling can help ensure your products get transported safely and securely to the fulfillment center and made available quickly to customers. For more information, see Packaging and Prep requirements and Shipping and Routing requirements.

Get Prepare Instructions

To get prepare instructions navigate to:

1. Go to Inventory > FBA Inbound Shipments > Open a package.
2. Select SKUs from the package.
3. Action Menu > Get Prepare Instructions > Click Go.

Prepare Instructions are pulled from Amazon only for products that do not have them in Sellercloud. The prep guidance can sometimes come in as ConsultHelpDocuments. Some of the SKUs may have the TSI_50811 Code, indicating that Amazon is currently unable to determine preparation instructions for them. Amazon might be able to provide guidance at a future date, after evaluating the item.

Update Who Prepares

To update who prepares navigate to:

1. Inventory > FBA Inbound Shipments > Open a package.
2. Select SKUs from the package.
3. Action Menu > Update Who Prepares> Click Go.
4. This will lead you to a new page to choose between Amazon and Seller.
5. Click Update.

Prepare Items

To prepare quantity for your items, navigate to:

1. Inventory > FBA Inbound Shipments > Open a package.
2. Action Menu > Prepare Quantity > Click Go.
3. Prepare your products: On the following screen, you can enter the SKU or UPC of an item in the shipment or click Find to do a general search of items in the shipment.
4. Click on the item’s SKU. The screen will refresh to display the SKU in a grid.
5. By default, products that are fully prepared will not display upon selection. Check the Show already prepared products to display them if desired. Packages that have already been shipped will not display. However, this can be controlled by a Client Setting Allow to prepare FBA shipment at any stage.
6. Navigate to the Action Menu and click Get prepare Instructions to prepare the items as they are packed.
7. Enter the units picked and packed into the Prepared Qty Now field.
8. Enter the number of boxes prepared in the Prepared Boxes Now field.
9. Click Save.
10. The Qty Prepared field will populate.
11. You can also print the FBA Labels for the product by selecting the label type and pressing Save and Print. The number of labels printed will default to the qty prepared.
12. Click Prepare Other to select another SKU in the Shipment.
13. To delete a prepared qty, select a package and press Delete Prepared, or use the Delete Prepared action in the Prepare Qty Action Menu.

Upload FBA Prepared Qty

You can upload FBA-prepared quantity in bulk.

1. Inventory > FBA Inbound Shipments > Open a package.
2. Action Menu > Prepare Quantity > Click Go.
3. You can choose a file or download a sample from Sellercloud.
4. Populate the needed fields.
5. Go back to Sellercloud.
6. Select Choose file then click Upload Prepared.
7. The qty prepared will display on the FBA inbound shipment.

Action Menu

On the prepared quantity details page, there are a few actions you can perform:

• Print Labels
  • Once you set a prepared quantity, the action Print Labels will download a pdf file of the labels for the number of items in the package

• Delete Prepared
  • This action will delete the prepared quantity you set for the items in the package.
• Manage Serials
  • Once you perform this action a pop-up window will appear prompting you to upload serial numbers if needed. You can download the sample provided by Sellercloud. You are required to enter the Shipment number, Product ID, and Box. 
• Get Prepare Instructions
  • This action will show you the instructions or guidelines for preparing your shipment before sending it to the Amazon FBA.

Relevant Client Settings

• Enable FBA Prepare Mixup By Seller And Amazon
  • This client setting allows the mixing of products prepared by both the seller and Amazon within the FBA process. This means that when fulfilling orders, items prepared by you and items prepared by Amazon can be combined and shipped together to customers. In order for Sellercloud to be able to send prepare info in the preview request to Amazon, this client setting has to be enabled.

• Enable FBA Inbound Shipment Box Copy Content
  • The client setting Enable FBA Inbound Shipment Box Copy Content in refers to an option that allows you to copy the content of a box within an FBA Inbound Shipment. You can create a copy of the box content within the same shipment when this setting is enabled. 
• Enable FBA Prepare Guidance
  • This setting enables the option to receive detailed prepare guidelines from Amazon on the packaging, labeling, and other prepare requirements specific to FBA.

• Allow to prepare FBA and WFS shipment at any stage
  • This setting enables you to see the Prep Guidance for Items in FBA and WFS shipments at any point in the process.
• Allow Over Prepare FBA And WFS Shipment
  • If enabled, you will be able to Prepare more FBA Quantity for a Product in an FBA Shipment than you actually have available. For example, if you have to prepare two units for a shipment but only have one in your warehouse, your product inventory will go down to -1 but it will still be possible to prepare both units.