The Business Need Northern Wholesale, a long-term customer of Data Communication Solutions, is a Minnesota-based distributor of RV, mobile home, snowmobile, and marine products. They needed their business to become more efficient through more automation and less manual keying, particularly when it came to their exchanges with Amazon. Amazon’s routing process was done through their
Amazon had introduced Vendor APIs, enabling vendors to more efficiently automate their integration. APIs are not a replacement for EDI and can run in parallel with it. That being said, these APIs offer benefits that EDI does not. One benefit is the ability for vendors to pull purchase order changes and cancellations in an automated
Since so many businesses supply products for Amazon, it’s important to keep up to date with their latest EDI updates. In their June 2020 supplier meeting, Amazon announced four new projects. These are Amazon EDI monitoring and Operational Analytics (OA), Vendor Central shipments experience, Born to Run (BTR), and inbound experience benchmark. In this post,
Amazon is requiring that its trading partners update their AS2 security settings in order to continue exchanging EDI documents with them. Specifically, they require updating AS2 certificates to SHA256 2048. The deadline for making this change is October 15, 2019. If connections aren’t compliant by this date, AS2 EDI traffic between Amazon and your business
Amazon has announced an increased cost for their Carton Content Accuracy chargeback. This refers to a payment that must be made when there is a discrepancy between the number of products received in a carton and the information that was provided in the Advance Shipment Notification (ASN). The chargeback rate will increase from $0.50 per
Amazon has announced a future update to No Carton Content Labeling (No CCL) chargeback rates affecting their vendors. Amazon is increasing the No CCL chargeback from $5 per carton to $15 per carton. This applies to vendors that consistently have a compliance rate of 10% or less. Vendors with a compliance rate above 10% will
Amazon has announced a new Purchase Order EDI update for their “Purchasing Entity” Name which will take effect on March 1, 2019. This update applies to all new and existing purchase orders and packing slips found under “Orders” in Vendor Central. All legacy purchasing entity Names will be updated to Amazon.com Services, Inc. The relevant
Amazon has released more important consumables EDI updates and instructions for Q4 instock readiness. These practices are always important, but are particularly vital in the moths leading up to the holiday season. Read on to learn how you can stay compliant with Amazon and avoid pricey chargebacks! . Manage your Purchase Orders in Q4: All
Are your EDI efforts supported by the shoulders of giants, or trying to not be crushed as the giants move forward? Amazon, the established king of the e-commerce space, is stepping into retail with the $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods and a few pilot brick and mortar bookstores. Walmart, the long-standing ruler of box-store physical
Amazon has announced the opening of a new fulfillment center in Mexico on April 15, 2018. If you do business with Amazon, it’s important to consider how this will affect your deliveries. The address of the fulfillment center is: Servicios Comerciales Amazon Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V. Prologis Park Grande Libramiento Norte No. 87