Sync Business Central transfer orders as inbound shipment plans and inbound shipments to Amazon

As an Amazon (FBA) merchant, you have to send key information to Amazon about the list of items you want to ship to the Amazon FBA warehouse. If you are using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to manage and track your inventory, you have to create transfer orders manually to move inventory between locations. You can manage your inbound shipment, inbound shipment plan, and posted transfer receipts automatically with the FBA edition of the integration app. The integration flow sends items from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to the Amazon FBA warehouse and tracks the shipment delivery status in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

You have to create a shipment plan by specifying information such as type of product, quantity, shipping address (from and to), label preferences, and special instructions for fragile and sharp items. After you create your transfer orders in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you have to send the shipment plans to Amazon.

Step 1: Inbound shipment plans are requested

After the Amazon (FBA) merchant manually creates the transfer orders in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, the transfer orders are exported using the Business Central transfer order to Amazon inbound shipment plan (add) flow. A request is sent to Amazon to create an inbound shipment plan. Amazon may split a single shipping plan into multiple shipments to redirect to different fulfillment centers. Based on the received shipment plan, the child transfer order(s) are created in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with the ShipmentID and Fulfilment Center ID details. You can find all the child transfer order details on the original transfer order. Simultaneously, the child transfer orders are also linked to the original transfer order. The original transfer order is marked as “Closed”.

Step 2: Inbound shipments are requested

The “Item Fulfillment” records of the child transfer order(s) with the status “Fulfilled” are exported using the Business Central transfer order to Amazon inbound shipment (add) flow. Based on the shipment details Amazon creates inbound shipments. You will now group and ship the items to Amazon as per the desired plan.

Step 3: Posted transfer receipts are created

The Amazon fulfillment network receives partial or full shipments. For the delivered shipments, the posted transfer receipts are generated in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. For more information, see Sync Amazon shipments as posted transfer receipts to Business Central.

Configure the settings

1. From the integration app, go to Settings > Shipments (TO).
2. From the Select Business Central locations to pick transfer orders from setting, choose one or many locations (Transfer_To) to get the transfer order items from. Only transfer orders from the selected locations are synced to Amazon.
3. Click Save.

Before you run the flow

• Amazon warehouse location should be created in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to ship goods to the Amazon location
• The inventory should be available in Ship from Location that is selected on the transfer order
• The item should exist in the Amazon org created in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and on the shipping location from which the inventory is shipped and received.
• Before you run the Business Central transfer order to Amazon inbound shipment (add) flow, ensure:
  • Shipment ID should not be empty
  • Amz default pick child order is enabled
  • Celigo eTail record exported is disabled 
  • eTail account ID must match the particular child store ID
  • eTail channel must be Amazon 

Run the flows

1. Go to Flows > Shipments (TO).
2. Next to the Business Central transfer order to Amazon inbound shipment plan (add) and Business Central transfer order to Amazon inbound shipment (add) flows, use the toggle button to enable the flows accordingly.
3. Click Run accordingly.

You can see the flow status in the integrator.io Dashboard. On a successful sync, for every record, the success count of the flow including the import and export is shown as 1.

Business Central transfer order to Amazon inbound shipment plan (add)

Business Central transfer order to Amazon inbound shipment (add)

Understand the inbound shipment and transfer order records in Amazon and Business Central

After the Amazon (FBA) merchant manually creates the transfer orders in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, the transfer orders are exported using the Business Central transfer order to Amazon inbound shipment plan (add) flow. After you run the Business Central transfer order to Amazon inbound shipment plan (add) flow, 

• The inbound shipment plans are created in Amazon.
• The original transfer order is closed. The original transfer order is linked to the child transfer order.
  
  
  
  
• Celigo eTail transfer order closed option is enabled.
• Celigo eTail record exported option is enabled on the original transfer order.
  
  
  
  
• The flow creates child transfer orders and child transfer order line items.
• The flow syncs information to the transfer order header fields - shipment ID, parent transfer order number, and destination fulfillment center ID.
  
• The flow syncs information to the transfer order header fields - item name and quantity.
• Celigo Amz default pick child order option is enabled.
  
  

After you run the Business Central transfer order to Amazon inbound shipment (add) flow, it creates inbound shipments in Amazon. The Celigo eTail record exported option is enabled on the child transfer orders.