Fulfilment Center functionality is a way to automatically send orders to third party fulfilment warehouse or to a drop shipper. Open orders that are allocated to a fulfilment center, automatically exported to an external system and the fulfilment process can be tracked. The fulfilment warehouse or the drop shipper can update the status of the exported orders, so that the current status and shipping information is reflected in Linnworks.
In addition Linnworks is capable of synchronizing the stock levels from the fulfilment center and actively update them in Linnworks.
After you have set a location to be a Fulfilment Center, you will be able to allocate orders to it. The Open Orders screen will have an additional filter drop down box which allows you to switch from Default (or your current location).
To manually allocate an order to a fulfilment center from a default location:
Once the order is moved to a fulfilment center and the order data is exported, you CANNOT move the order out of the fulfilment center, unless the order is Canceled by the fulfilment center.
Linnworks will mark an order as Label Printed when the order is exported successfully. If there is an error exporting an order the label printing flag will display an error.
The order status that the fulfilment company provides for the exported orders will be recorded in the Audit Trail as FULFIL_STATUS type.
See Fulfilment Center and Drop Ship Configuration
The same sort of principle, but the automation process is preconfigured (no need to setup Fulfilment Center communication between Amazon FBA and Linnworks manually). See Fulfilment By Amazon (Amazon FBA) documentation section.
Video: Amazon FBA, Fulfilment Centers and dropshipping - This webinar demonstrates how to configure Linnworks to work with Amazon FBA, setup generic fulfilment center communication or coms with the drop shipper and introduces to Scripting in Linnworks.