Saks Fifth Avenue Integration Through Radial

Overview

Saks Fifth Avenue is a luxury department store chain in the United States. Saks Fifth Avenue offers a wide range of high-end fashion and luxury goods, including clothing, accessories, jewelry, cosmetics, and home furnishings. In addition to its flagship location in New York, Saks Fifth Avenue has stores throughout the United States and an online store that ships worldwide.

You can integrate Saks Fifth Avenue through Radial, which is an e-commerce platform used to manage supplier dropshipping. Their dropship solution allows you to leverage dropship suppliers’ inventory and resources to fulfill online orders directly to your customers.

Integrating Saks Fifth Avenue allows you to sell on their platform through Sellercloud. This integration works through EDI documents transmitting information between the two services. The following plugins are currently available:

• Order Import – Imports orders from Saks Fifth Avenue to Sellercloud in EDI 850 format.
• Tracking Export  – Exports tracking information to Saks Fifth Avenue in EDI 856 format.
• Inventory Export – Exports inventory to Saks Fifth Avenue in EDI 846 format.

If necessary, you can contact Sellercloud Support to request additional customizations or other plugins for this integration. Any such modifications will be billable.

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Prerequisites

Before you can integrate Saks Fifth Avenue with Sellercloud, complete the following requirements.

Radial Support

You must contact Radial for your FTP details: server name, username, and password.

Custom Company Settings

Create the following Custom Company Settings:

• STControlNumber
• GSControlNumber
• ISAControlNumber
• SAKS_CustomerISAID – Enter a unique phone number.
• SAKS_CustomerQualifier – Set to ZZ.
• SAKS_ISAID – Set to SAKSVNET.
• SAKS_Qualifier – Set to ZZ.
• SAKS_ShipRequireThirdPartyBilling – Enable to mark orders for third-party shipping.
• SAKS_MatchByUPCFirst – Enable this optional setting to have the order import plugin match UPC first, then SAKS_SKU, and finally, ProductID.
• SAKS_ExportChildOrders – Enable this optional setting to allow partial tracking to be sent for split orders.

Sellercloud Support

You must contact Sellercloud Support and request:

1. To install the Saks Fifth Avenue Plugins on your server.
2. The following custom product and order columns:

Custom Product Columns

• SAKS_Enabled – Set to True to enable a product for Saks Fifth Avenue.
• SAKS_SKU – a product’s SKU at Saks Fifth Avenue.

Custom Order Columns

• SAKS_BRANDINFO – Create as a String
• SAKS_PAYMENTTYPE – Create as a String
• SAKS_PACKINGSLIPFORMAT – Create as a String
• SAKS_TAX – Create as a Decimal
• SAKS_HANDLING – Create as a Decimal

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Order Import

This plugin imports order data from Saks Fifth Avenue to Sellercloud in EDI 850 format.

Automate Order Import

To create a Scheduled Task that regularly imports orders from Saks Fifth Avenue to Sellercloud:

1. Navigate to Settings > Scheduled Tasks > Manage Scheduled Tasks.
2. Click the green + icon: Create New Scheduled Task.
3. Complete as follows:
   1. Click Task Type and select Import Orders.
   2. Set the Task Name.
   3. Select the Company.
   4. Select the Start Time.
   5. Click CREATE.
4. The following message appears at the bottom of your screen: “Scheduled task created successfully. Click Here to configure the task details.” – click the link.
5. Click the Edit button on the top right.
6. In the Details section:
   1. Click the Create Orders For Company menu and select the company you designated for this integration.
   2. Click the Plugin menu and select SAKS EDI 850 Order Import.
7. In the Import Options section, set Import From to FTP and fill out the FTP fields.
8. In the Frequency section, specify the task frequency. For optimal performance, select a range between thirty minutes and one hour.
9. In the General section, click the Enable button.
10. Click Save on the top right.

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Tracking Export

This plugin exports tracking from Sellercloud to Saks Fifth Avenue following the 856 EDI format.

Before you move on, create a Saved Search for orders filtered by:

• Company – Choose the Saks Fifth Avenue company
• Order Status – InProcess Or Completed
• Shipping Status – FullyShipped
• Payment Status – Charged
• Tracking Uploaded – No

Automate Tracking Export

To create a Scheduled Task that regularly exports order tracking from Sellercloud to Saks Fifth Avenue:

1. Navigate to Settings > Scheduled Tasks > Manage Scheduled Tasks.
2. Click the green + icon: Create New Scheduled Task.
3. Complete as follows:
   1. Click Task Type and select Export Orders.
   2. Set the Task Name.
   3. Select the Company.
   4. Select the Start Time.
   5. Click CREATE.
4. The following message appears at the bottom of your screen: “Scheduled task created successfully. Click Here to configure the task details.” – click the link.
5. Click the Edit button on the top right.
6. In the Details section:
   1. Click the User ID menu and select your ID.
   2. Click the Saved Search menu and select the saved search you created earlier.
   3. Click the Export Via menu and select SAKS EDI 856 Order Export.
   4. Check Mark Orders Exported.
   5. Check This Is Tracking Export.
7. In the Export Options section, set Export To to FTP and fill out the FTP fields.
8. In the Frequency section, specify the task frequency. For optimal performance, select a range between thirty minutes and one hour.
9. In the General section, click the Enable toggle button.
10. Click Save on the top right.

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Inventory Export

This plugin exports inventory from Sellercloud to Saks Fifth Avenue in EDI 846 format. Note that it doesn’t export pricing information.

Make sure to enable your products for Saks Fifth Avenue by setting their SAKS_Enabled Custom Column for Products to True:

• For one product at a time: go to the Product Details Page > click Toolbox and select Custom Columns > click Edit, update the SAKS_Enabled column, and Save.
• For multiple products follow the steps to Bulk Update Products and use the SAKS_Enabled column – set it to True for all products you want to enable.

Before you move on, create a Saved Search for products filtered by SAKS_Enabled – True. Optionally, you can add more filters to the search.

Automate Inventory Export

To create a Scheduled Task that regularly exports inventory from Sellercloud to Saks Fifth Avenue:

1. Navigate to Settings > Scheduled Tasks > Manage Scheduled Tasks.
2. Click the green + icon: Create New Scheduled Task.
3. Complete as follows:
   1. Click Task Type and select Export Products.
   2. Set the Task Name.
   3. Select the Company.
   4. Select the Start Time.
   5. Click CREATE.
4. The following message appears at the bottom of your screen: “Scheduled task created successfully. Click Here to configure the task details.” – click the link.
5. Click the Edit button on the top right.
6. In the Details section:
   1. Click the User ID menu and select your ID.
   2. Click the Saved Search menu and select the saved search you created earlier.
   3. Click the Export Via menu and select Saks EDI 846 Inventory Export.
7. In the Export Options section, set Export To to FTP and fill out the FTP fields.
8. In the Frequency section, specify the task frequency. For optimal performance, select a range between thirty minutes and one hour.
9. In the General section, click the Enable toggle button.
10. Click Save on the top right.

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