Drop-Shipping via Fulfilllment Center Text Files

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Overview

• SEOM can be configured to send order information to drop-ship an order placed with a supplier for an item or items that are not normally stocked by the retailer; the supplier then ships the merchandise directly to the retailer's customer. The retailer never takes physical possession of the merchandise. vendors via the Fulfillment the process of picking, packing, printing and affixing shipping labels, and shipping orders to customers. Center feature.

• Set up a Fulfillment Center and Fulfillment Export Template for each supplier vendor. Use a different text file for each supplier.

• Assign a product to a Fulfillment Center by editing its inventory record and making a selection from the Fulfillment Ctr drop-down list

• The Fulfillment text file acts as a repository of order information for those products associated with a given Fulfillment Center.  

• At a time of the user's choosing, usually at the end of the business day, the text file can be emailed or FTP'd to the supplier.

• The user must manually delete or rename the text files once they have been sent to the supplier so that orders are not duplicated since the program continues to append order information to the file named in the Fulfillment Template as orders are processed.

How To Use Fulfillment Center Text Files to Send Order Information to Drop-ship Suppliers

1. Create one or more fulfillment centers and fulfillment templates, choosing the appropriate fields and placing them in the desired position and format in the text file. Refer to the Knowledge Base topic, Fulfillment Centers.

2. At the Suppliers screen synonymous with the Microsoft Access Form object or graphical user interface (GUI), navigate to the record of the supplier that will receive order information via the text file.

3. Click the Purchase Order Settings tab.

4. Click the Edit button.

5. Select to "left-click" the mouse on an object, usually a row in a table, in the context of Monsoon OMS documentation the Text File Export radio button in the Drop-Ship Purchase Orders section of the screen.

6. Choose the appropriate fulfillment template from the Text File drop-down list.

7. The Attach Text File check box is automatically selected.

8. Enter the fully qualified path to the text file in the Export File field.

9. To have the text file emailed automatically to the supplier, check the Email Automatically radio button. Another alternative is to manually FTP the text files to the vendor's site.

10. Click the Save button in the upper right-hand corner to make the changes effective.

Additional Information

Created: 5/14/12

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Published: 04/14/16