Amazon FBA Inbound Shipment Automation
Getting inventory into Amazon FBA involves shipment plans, carton labeling, and shipping label generation, all of which is manual busywork if handled through Seller Central's own screens. We automate the FBA inbound workflow end to end, from shipment creation through carton and shipping label download, built into your existing ERP.
The scope, and what has to get right.
- Shipment plan creation. Building FBA inbound shipment plans from your own inventory data rather than re-entering it in Seller Central by hand.
- Carton labeling. Generating carton labels that match Amazon's inbound requirements, tied to what is actually packed rather than assumed.
- Shipping label generation and download. Producing and downloading the shipping labels for the inbound shipment as part of the same automated flow.
- Routing carton and shipping files internally. Getting the generated labels to the warehouse floor automatically, rather than a person locating and printing them manually.
Inside the system, not bolted on.
End to end, not a partial automation
The workflow covers shipment creation through to a printed label at the warehouse, not just the API call in the middle.
Driven by your existing inventory data
Shipment plans are generated from the same stock data your ERP already maintains, so nothing has to be re-entered for Amazon specifically.
Built into your ERP, not a separate FBA tool
Inbound automation sits alongside your other Amazon integrations rather than as a standalone tool with its own login and its own data.
Multi-marketplace ERP, EDI and logistics automation for a US consumer electronics brand
- Off Sage, with the operating history intact: Customers, vendors, items and transaction history were migrated from Sage into a browser-based ERP covering order-to-cash and procure-to-pay, with a full general ledger, receivables and payables, so the business changed systems without losing its records.
- Native EDI inside the ERP: Direct trading-partner connections for Amazon Vendor Central, Walmart, HSN, QVC and Costco with 850, 855, 856, 810, 846 and 997 documents, polled on schedules as short as ten minutes. Every job is tracked on a monitoring dashboard, and there is no third-party EDI middleware in the chain.
- Every channel in one order queue: Amazon Vendor Central and Seller Central (SP-API), Walmart, HSN, QVC, Costco, several Shopify storefronts, eBay and direct wholesale accounts land in one system. Vendor Central purchase orders are accepted or rejected back to Amazon from the same screen that shows system, 3PL and allocated stock.
- Multi-warehouse and multi-3PL stock: Real-time inventory across an owned warehouse operated with a logistics partner, a second third-party warehouse and Amazon fulfillment locations, with warehouse transfer orders and an Amazon inbound shipment request action for FBA.
- International purchasing and landed cost: Ocean and air freight purchase orders carry ETD, bill of lading, ETA and vessel details, and the ERP calculates landed cost at receiving from tariff classification, duty, tariff, harbor surcharge and freight per item.
Common questions.
Does this replace Seller Central's own shipment creation screens?
It automates what those screens require you to do manually, using your own inventory data instead of re-entering it, and produces the carton and shipping labels as part of the same flow.
Can this generate carton labels and shipping labels in one pass?
Yes. Both are generated from the same shipment data, which is what removes the manual back-and-forth between Seller Central and your own systems.
Does this work if we sell across multiple marketplaces, not just Amazon?
Yes. FBA inbound automation fits into a larger multi-marketplace ERP the same way EDI and other integrations do, alongside Walmart, Shopify or any other channel you run.
What happens if Amazon changes its inbound requirements?
Because the mapping lives in your own codebase, an inbound requirement change is a code change your team controls, not a wait for a third-party tool to update.
Where this connects.
How much of your FBA inbound process is still manual?
Tell us where the manual steps are, shipment planning, carton labeling, or shipping labels, and we will tell you what can be automated directly.