Indeed, Amazon has been known to offer incentives and account rewards to those companies that adhere to their integration standards. We’ve all been in the Amazon webinars where the terms EDI and API are thrown about and integration is seen as the “done thing”. “Get EDI” you are told, or encouraged by Amazon in numerous training sessions to get integrated. In fact, even much smaller, growing accounts can feel the squeeze of paperwork, and it is often an overlooked aspect of joining the Vendor program.įor many, integration is the answer. While this varies from vendor to vendor, any account with over $2m/year in sales will likely have a large paper trail associated with it. Most companies dedicate one or two members of staff to handling POs each morning, usually with a time cost of 10-15 hours per week per account. Typically Mondays and Wednesdays place a large workload on staff to download, process and accept purchase orders. If you have been an Amazon Vendor for any length of time, you will know that the paperwork burden can be quite large. To learn more about the Amazon Vendor program in general, see Amazon Vendor Central: Everything You Need to Know. In this article we will explore the reasons, methods, limitations and misconceptions about integration to Amazon Vendor. In Q2 2020, Amazon Vendor also launched an API, which is particularly suited to Direct Fulfillment Vendors, although the functionality of the two is roughly similar. What information can be transmitted and received, what does it take to connect, and what are the benefits?Īmazon Vendor has long used Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to send and receive information about purchase orders, shipments and invoices. If you are an Amazon Vendor the question of integration is something you should be considering. This post is by Christopher Khoo, Sales Director at KhooCommerce.
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