Inventory

Inbound Shipment

An Inbound Shipment is Amazon’s term for sending your items from your warehouse to an Amazon Fulfillment Center, where it will be stored and delivered to your customer by Amazon.

You can create an Inbound Shipment after creating a Purchase Order or a Transfer Order.

To create an inbound shipment:

• Create a new Purchase Order or Transfer Order for the FBA items that you want to send to Amazon’s warehouse.

• Click Create Inbound Shipment in the transaction details screen..

After you click Create Inbound Shipment, you will be taken to the FBA Plan Creation screen. Here, review the details and click Save and Next.

Shipment Creation

After the previous step, Amazon will analyze the items you are selling, find the best location to sell them, and create plans for you to ship them. Now, you have to box your items to prepare them for shipping.To box your items:

• Click Configure Boxes next to the plan’s details.

• Click + New Box in the popup that appears**.**

• Select the items that you want to include in the box, and enter the quantity of those items. You can configure multiple boxes for the same plan if required.

• Click Save.

• If you have multiple plans, you have to configure the box details for each of them by clicking the Configure Boxes button next to each plan.

After you configure the box details for all the plans, click Create Shipment**.** Zoho Inventory will create an Inbound Shipment with your plan details..

Send Box Details to Amazon

After you configure the box details for your plans in the previous step, they will be stored locally in Zoho Inventory. To send information about the boxes to Amazon, click Push Box Details.

Zoho Inventory will now send your box details to Amazon. Please wait for a few minutes for this process to complete and click Refresh Status. Once completed, you will be taken to the next step.

Configure Transport Details

Once you’ve pushed the box details to Amazon, you must choose whether you want to send your package using an Amazon partnered shipping carrier or ship it on your own with the help of a third-party shipping carrier.

For shipments sent via third-party carriers:

• Click Configure Transport Details.
• Click the shipment for which you want to choose a shipping carrier.
• Set the Carrier Type as Non-Partnered, and choose your Carrier Name from the list.
• Enter the tracking number which you got from your shipping carrier in the Tracking# field for all the boxes.

• Click Save.
• Click Proceed after configuring the transport details for all your shipments.

For packages sent via Amazon partnered shipping carriers:

• Click Configure Transport Details.

• Click the shipment for which you want to choose a shipping carrier.

• Set the Carrier Type as Partnered, and choose your Carrier Name from the list.

• Enter the necessary information and click Save.

• Click Proceed after configuring the transport details for all your shipments.

Estimate Shipping Fee

To fetch and confirm the estimated shipping fee:

• Click Estimate Shipping Fee in the top right corner of the screen. (Amazon will estimate the shipping cost from your warehouse to Amazon’s Fulfillment Center.)

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• Click Fetch Estimated Fee in the top right corner of the screen, to fetch the estimated fee from Amazon.

• The estimated shipping fee will be shown in the inbound shipment details screen.
• Click Confirm Estimated Fee.

In the popup that appears, verify the details, accept the terms and conditions, and click Confirm.

Print Shipment Labels

Once you confirm the estimated shipping fee, Amazon will generate the FBA Labels and the Shipment Labels, which you should print and attach with your shipment.

To print these labels:

• Click Print Shipment Labels in the top right corner of your screen.

• Verify the details and click the Print icon to print the shipment labels.

Insight: For non-partnered shipping carriers, you have to fetch the shipment label from your carrier and print it.

Mark As Shipped

Once the package has been picked up by your preferred carrier, you should change the status of the inbound shipment to Shipped. To do so:

• Click Mark As Shipped in the top right corner of your screen.

Fetch Shipment Status

After you mark the shipment as Shipped, Zoho Inventory will check the status of your shipment once every 12 hours.

You can also fetch the status and the tracking number (for Amazon partnered shipping carriers) manually by clicking Fetch Shipment Status in the top right corner of your screen.

Status	Description
Working	The carrier has picked up the package from your facility.
In-Transit	An appointment has been made for delivering an item to an Amazon Fulfillment Center.
Delivered	The carrier has delivered the package to an Amazon fulfillment Center.

Once the shipment has been delivered, Zoho Inventory will mark the transaction as Transferred for Transfer Orders or create a Purchase Receive for Purchase Orders automatically.

Delete Inbound Shipment

To delete an inbound shipment in Zoho Inventory:

• Open the transaction details page of the transaction for which you want to delete the inbound shipment.
• Click View Inbound Shipment.
• Click the bin icon in the top right corner of your screen.
• Click Delete in the popup that appears..