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Amazon Vendor Central Integration
Zynk's Amazon Vendor Central integration runs the order cycle for suppliers selling to Amazon as first-party vendors. Retail procurement purchase orders and direct fulfilment orders download into Sage, Business Central or your warehouse system, while acknowledgements, shipment confirmations and invoices go back to Amazon. Direct fulfilment packing slips and shipping labels are collected automatically too.
Capabilities may differ depending on the product.
Benefits
Why businesses connect Amazon Vendor Central
Purchase orders straight from Amazon
Retail procurement purchase orders export from Vendor Central and arrive as sales orders in your ERP or warehouse system. Nobody has to check the portal for new orders or copy order lines out by hand.
Acknowledgements from your own system
Order acknowledgements go back to Amazon from the system that holds your stock, accepting or rejecting lines against what you can actually supply. Your order book and Amazon's view of the order stay the same.
Shipment confirmations that match the despatch
When goods leave for Amazon's fulfilment centres, shipment confirmations import into Vendor Central from your despatch data, so Amazon knows what is on its way without anyone retyping cartons and quantities.
Invoices without the portal
Retail procurement invoices import into Amazon from your accounting or ERP system as soon as they are raised. Finance stops recreating invoices in Vendor Central, and the figures Amazon holds match your own ledger.
Direct fulfilment without manual steps
For direct fulfilment, Zynk downloads shopper orders, acknowledges them, requests shipping labels, collects labels and packing slips, and confirms each shipment, so drop-ship orders run without anyone working through the portal.
API first, with legacy EDI covered
The current connector works through Amazon's vendor APIs and is the one we recommend for new projects. Zynk's older EDI connector, now marked legacy, still downloads purchase orders for vendors who already use it.
Capabilities
What you can do with Amazon Vendor Central
Every task the Zynk Amazon Vendor Central connector can run, grouped by the direction data moves.
Import into Amazon Vendor Central
Data Zynk writes into Amazon Vendor Central
7 tasks
- Direct fulfilment order acknowledgements → into Amazon Vendor Central
- Direct fulfilment order scenario requests → into Amazon Vendor Central
- Direct fulfilment shipment confirmations → into Amazon Vendor Central
- Direct fulfilment shipping label requests → into Amazon Vendor Central
- Retail procurement invoices → into Amazon Vendor Central
- Retail procurement order acknowledgements → into Amazon Vendor Central
- Retail procurement shipment confirmations → into Amazon Vendor Central
Export out of Amazon Vendor Central
Data Zynk reads out of Amazon Vendor Central
5 tasks
- Direct fulfilment orders → out of Amazon Vendor Central
- Direct fulfilment packing slips → out of Amazon Vendor Central
- Direct fulfilment shipping labels → out of Amazon Vendor Central
- Retail procurement orders → out of Amazon Vendor Central
- Purchase orders → out of Amazon Vendor Central
Actions in Amazon Vendor Central
Tasks Zynk can automate in Amazon Vendor Central
1 task
- Notify purchase order → in Amazon Vendor Central
Need something that isn't listed?
Most Amazon Vendor Central projects include at least one custom step. Our team builds it for you.
The problem
Why integrate Amazon Vendor Central?
Selling to Amazon as a vendor brings a constant flow of documents: purchase orders to acknowledge, shipments to confirm, invoices to submit and, for direct fulfilment, labels and packing slips for every parcel. Worked through the Vendor Central portal, each step is manual and time-sensitive, and a late or missing document leads to queries, delays and rework.
Without integration
- Purchase orders copied out of Vendor Central line by line
- Acknowledgements keyed into the portal one order at a time
- Shipment details typed in after the lorry has already left
- Invoices recreated in the portal from the accounting system
- Labels and packing slips downloaded by hand for each parcel
With Zynk
- Retail procurement orders download into your ERP automatically
- Acknowledgements go back to Amazon from your own system
- Shipment confirmations import into Vendor Central from despatch data
- Retail procurement invoices import into Amazon automatically
- Labels and packing slips export for every direct fulfilment order
How it works
How the Amazon Vendor Central integration works
Step 1: Authorise your vendor account
You authorise Zynk against your Vendor Central account for the regions you supply, then connect the ERP, accounting or warehouse system that will handle Amazon orders.
Step 2: Map items, sites and accounts
Map Amazon's product identifiers to your item codes, Amazon fulfilment centres and your ship-from locations to addresses and warehouses, and Amazon to the customer account that orders and invoices post against.
Step 3: Test the full cycle
Take orders through acknowledgement, shipment confirmation and invoicing before going live. For direct fulfilment, test orders can be generated in Amazon's sandbox, so labels and confirmations are proven before real shoppers are involved.
Step 4: Run and monitor
Orders download on a schedule, and acknowledgements, confirmations and invoices go back as your systems record them. Alerts flag any document that fails to submit, so it is corrected while there is still time.
Integrations
What can you connect to Amazon Vendor Central?
Amazon Vendor Central and Sage 200
Create Sage 200 sales orders from Amazon purchase orders, then send despatch notes back as shipment confirmations and Sage 200 invoices as Amazon invoices.
Amazon Vendor Central and Sage 50 UK
Turn each Amazon purchase order into a Sage 50 sales order, then submit the matching Sage 50 invoice to Vendor Central once the goods have been despatched.
Amazon Vendor Central and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Create Business Central sales orders from Amazon purchase orders and return posted sales shipments and sales invoices to Amazon as shipment confirmations and invoices.
View the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central integration →
Amazon Vendor Central and Peoplevox
Send direct fulfilment orders to Peoplevox for picking and packing, then confirm each shipment to Amazon from the Peoplevox despatch summary.
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Who uses Amazon Vendor Central?
What is the difference between retail procurement and direct fulfilment?
Can Amazon Vendor Central purchase orders go into Sage?
Does the integration send acknowledgements and shipment confirmations?
Can Zynk submit invoices to Amazon Vendor Central?
Can Zynk get shipping labels for direct fulfilment orders?
Does the Vendor Central connector use EDI or Amazon's API?
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