Use case: Amazon Vendor

Process Amazon Vendor documents automatically with EDI

Sell directly to Amazon as a manufacturer or supplier – while staying in your familiar ERP.

  • Meet Amazon’s EDI standards from day one
  • Purchase orders, dispatch advices and invoices flow automatically between Amazon and your ERP
  • No manual rework on items, quantities or documents

Your benefits

Why EDI is a must-have for your Amazon Vendor business

As an Amazon Vendor, you supply Amazon directly and benefit from its huge reach. To make the most of this potential, you should support Amazon’s EDI requirements – seamlessly integrated into your own system.

Increase speed

EDI exchange between Amazon and your ERP transfers all business documents in near real time and eliminates manual typing.

Reduce errors

EDI prevents errors such as wrong order or delivery quantities and missing order lines – and with them, unnecessary extra costs.

Meet Amazon deadlines

Amazon imposes penalties for late or incorrect order confirmations, dispatch advices and invoices. With EDI, documents are sent automatically and on time.

Scale internationally

Extend your EDI connection to other European Amazon marketplaces with no extra effort, right up to a direct connection to individual Amazon warehouses.

Retail and Advantage

EDI adapts to your Amazon business model

With the EDI connection to Amazon Vendor Central, you control the EDI business processes Amazon requires directly from your ERP – regardless of your business model. EDI covers both the regular wholesale business (Retail) and the consignment business (Advantage). In the Retail business, you issue the invoice when the goods ship. In the Advantage model, Amazon sells on your behalf and invoicing takes place only after the goods are sold. If you switch models, you do not need to integrate a new EDI process.

  • At the start of the process chain, Amazon sends the purchase order directly to your ERP (ORDERS).
  • You send the order confirmation to Amazon automatically via EDI (ORDRSP).
  • Shipping automatically triggers the dispatch advice to Amazon (DESADV).
  • In the regular wholesale business, the invoice is also sent to Amazon automatically (INVOIC).

Personal consultation

Let’s discuss your Amazon Vendor connection

We look at your ERP and your Amazon business model and show you how to implement the EDI connection to fit your needs exactly.

Frequently asked questions about EDI for Amazon Vendor

Amazon Vendor is a direct supply model: you sell your goods to Amazon, and Amazon resells them to end customers. Amazon Seller is the marketplace where you sell directly to end customers yourself. EDI is relevant for the Vendor model, not for the marketplace.

Amazon expects its suppliers to meet tight response times in the process chain of purchase order (ORDERS), order confirmation (ORDRSP), dispatch advice (DESADV) and invoice (INVOIC). If you handle these processes manually instead of via EDI, you risk missing deadlines – and with that, penalties and extra work. With EDI, all four processes run automatically and on time.

In the Amazon Vendor Retail business, you supply Amazon and issue the invoice when the goods ship. In the Advantage model, Amazon sells the goods on your behalf; invoicing takes place only after the sale, which is why the INVOIC EDI process is not needed here. The EDI connection from JTL flexibly supports both models.

Yes. You register with Amazon Vendor Central and complete your contractual onboarding as a supplier directly with Amazon yourself; Amazon provides you with the login credentials. You set up the basic EDI settings in the portal; we take care of the technical connection to your ERP.

Yes, the EDI connection can be extended to other European Amazon country entities. A direct EDI connection to individual Amazon warehouses is also possible.

Amazon also offers the EDI processes PRICAT (item master data to Amazon), SLSRPT (sales reports from Amazon) and INVRPT (inventory reports from Amazon). Implementation depends on the individual case and data quality and is discussed individually.

More scenarios

EDI use cases for your entire business

EDI pays off not only for Amazon Vendor. EDI also automates data transfer between you and your trading partners in other areas of your company.

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EDI in purchasing

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EDI in your online store

Connect your online store directly to fulfillment and shipping service providers via EDI.