Important to know

Inbound Products and FBA Inventory

In OneDayBundle web application you will be working with two groups of products that are closely related to each other but have very different roles – these are Inbound Products and FBA Inventory.

Products is a products that the warehouse receives as a part of supply from one or more Suppliers. We keep stock balance and logs. These products cannot be used in FBA Shipments - they act as resources/materials to assembly FBA Inventory. But the inbound products are added to the FBM orders.

FBA Inventory is a products that can be used in FBA shipments. It has ASIN and SKU. We keep separate stock balances and logs for them. For all FBA Inventory you plan to work with, you need to add item components, which we use to assemble an item.

Synchronization with Amazon

ODB FBA Inventory database does not synchronize with Amazon automatically. It allows you to upload new items to ODB and will not affect your items in Seller Central. Moreover, if you add an item/items to Seller Central, you have to import them to ODB by clicking the Import button in FBA Inventory section.

ODB provides one-way import of all your items from Amazon so you don't have to create a catalog manually. We recommend you always start with this procedure and create items manually only if absolutely necessary.

Types of ASINs in ODB FBA Inventory.

ODB allows to work with three types of ASINs: individual items, sets, and bundles. We will take a look at every type in the following sections.

Individual ASINs

These are ASINs, which have one component: an inbound product in quantity of 1 unit. These ASINs do not require any extra prep from the warehouse other than to meet Amazon's requirements in labeling, packaging, etc.

Example: You buy coffee as a pack of one from a Supplier. You sell coffee in the same way as a pack of one. On the ASINs page, you add item components with one product with a quantity of 1 and then create an FBA shipment of 10 units of coffee.

Sets

These are ASINs, which have two or more components: one product in quantity of two units and more. They require an extra prep from the warehouse apart from meeting Amazon package requirements.

Example: You buy coffee as a pack of one from a Supplier. You sell coffee as a set of 3 packs. This is treated as a set. On the ASINs page, you add item components with one product with a quantity of 3 and then create an FBA shipment that contains 10 units. The warehouse employee understands that for this shipment he needs to bring 30 products and create 10 sets of 3.

Bundles

These are ASINs, which have two or more components of different inbound products. They require an extra prep from the warehouse.

Example: You buy coffee as a pack of one from a Supplier as well as coffee cups as one unit from another vendor. You sell it as a bundle of 3 packs of coffee and 2 cups. On the ASINs page, you add item components with 2 products (coffee and cups) with a quantity of 3 packs of coffee and 2 cups. Then create an FBA shipment with the quantity of 10 of the ASIN. The warehouse employee understands that for this shipment he needs to bring 30 units of coffee and 20 units of cups to create 10 bundles.

You cannot personally indicate the type of an ASINs, it is automatically adjusted depending on item components.

Why is this so complicated? Why do you use multiple item types?

We want to ensure that all processes at the warehouse are as transparent and traceable as possible so that you can understand what is happening to your items, supplies, and shipments at any time. On the one hand, this requires a lot of extra information that we can only get from you. On the other hand, this requires extra steps.

When the delivery and the shipment process goes smoothly, it seems redundant, but in practice, we are faced with situations where deliveries do not come in full, or part of the items are defective. In such cases, we cannot prep the FBA shipment of sets and bundles in full and some of the items stay in our warehouse. You will always be able to see the stock balance of items and change the shipment or create a new one to effectively make use of them and increase your profit.