Ship from Store
Ship from Store (SFS) offers the capability to retailers to use physical stores as distribution centers. This helps you fulfill online orders from one or multiple sales channels, such as an e-commerce store or marketplace.
Sales view
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Benefits
The benefits of this process are:
- Physical stores will fulfill online orders from store inventory when the warehouse is out of stock
- Allow faster shipping to customers
- Lower shipping costs
- Flexible and cost effective solution
- Integrated with Point of Sales (POS) mobile application to allow store assistants to manage SFS orders more efficiently
- Adaptable as the client’s needs and sophistication increases
Access
There are three different ways to access in your Order Management System (OMS) Admin:
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Navigate to Dashboard > Operation Dashboard. This view offers a summary of the SFS orders pending picking. Additionally, there is a Go to ship from store page option that allows you to go directly to the SFS page.
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Navigate to Dashboard > Ship from Store Dashboard.
Dashboard > Ship from store
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Navigate to Sales > Ship from store.
Sales > Ship from store
Pick
Once you have found the SFS page, a list of all the stores will be displayed:
Stores list
The information shown in the store list is the following:
- Number of new orders (pending picking)
- Picking/packing
- Shipping
- pick lists complete
The list of shown stores can change depending on the User’s permissions.
The SFS can be enabled (by default) or disabled at the source level in the configuration portal. If it is disabled, the source does not appear in this page, unless there are remaining pick lists still in progress.
Pick list generation
First, you need to select the specific store to start generating the pick list. Then, click to create a new pick list for this store:
Store pick list
Customize Pick list allows you to select specific orders to generate a pick list
For warehouses, and the integration with the Warehouse Management System, users in the OMS Admin should not create pick lists. To disable this feature, configure the Enable SFS capability for this source option in the System Integrator (SI) Portal.
Navigate to Config > Sources > Omnichannel > Ship From Store.
Configuration in SI Portal
- If there is no pick list in progress and SFS feature is
disabled
in the SI portal -
Source does not appear in the Stores list in your OMS Admin:
Configuration disabled
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Continue with the next step once you Generate Pick List with All Orders.
New pick list
- The header shows the Store, the Pick List ID, and the status New. Furthermore, you will see all the Pick List details, such as: when it was created, Status, number of orders, and number of items. This list groups the items by Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) and does not take into account the order.
Pick/Decline products
The picking process can be done with a mobile device (tablet) using our In Store Interface where you will be able to confirm or decline the picking of a product. It can also be done by printing a pick list and then updating the interface based on final results.
Pick list options
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Confirm you have found all the items in the store and want to confirm the total quantity of this product. The status of the Pick list will change to “Ready to Pack” when all products have been picked confirmed/declined.
Status Ready to pick
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Click the Settings (gear icon) to modify the Item Quantity. If you have not found all the items in the store and you need to update the quantity of this product use this option.
A new view shows the number of requested items. Select the number of items to be confirmed and to be declined. You must indicate the decline reason to
missing
,damaged
, orhold
. This list of reasons is configurable.To configure the list of available reasons, contact Magento Support for assistance.
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Click Update to update the pick list.
Modify quantity
The status on the pick list page changes to Ready to pack.
Start Packing
Once you have the list of items updated and you have confirmed the quantity, click Start Packing. In case you have declined all the items, you have to click Confirm Selection.
Start packing
Continue picking
If you have created the pick list but have not finished the picking process:
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Navigate to Sales > Ship from store.
Sales > Ship from store
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Select the store from which to continue working with a pick list and click Continue with pick list.
Continue with pick list
If there is more than one pick list in progress, a list of pick lists will be displayed with the following information:
- Number of pick lists
- Number of orders
- Number of items
- pick list details (ID, date of generation, status, orders, items and actions)
List of pick lists
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Select the pick list you want to continue picking and click Continue Picking.
Continue picking
If there is only one pick list in progress, you will be automatically directed to the pick list view.
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Continue with the process as it was described previously.
Pack
When you click Start Packing, a list of orders will be displayed for this specific pick list.
Pick list - Start Packing
Pack products per order
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When there is an order with more than one product, you can configure the number of boxes you want to use. Click Configure boxes.
Configure boxes Link
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You can also view the boxes you configured.
Configure boxes view
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Click Add Box to create a new box configuration.
Add box
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Once you have modified the configuration, click Save
Prepare orders for carrier
Once you have your boxes ready, you need to complete the Carrier information:
- Carrier—Select the carrier.
- Tracking Number—Write the tracking number provided by the carrier.
- Tracking Link—This information can be automatically displayed based on configuration.
Carrier information
Tracking link provided by carrier must be an URL with a http://
or https://
format.
Print packing slips
You can print the Packing slips individually per box (and put them in each physical box):
Print packing slip for one box
Or you can print all the packing slips at the same time:
Print all packing slips
Confirm packing
This confirmation is per box:
Confirm Packing
Once you confirm, you cannot change the carrier information.
Status of pick list
When all the boxes are confirmed, the status of the pick list changes to Packed
:
Pick list packed
Continue packing
If you started Packing but did not finish the Packing process:
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Navigate to Sales > Ship from store.
Sales > Ship from store
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Select the store from which you want to continue packing a pick list and click Continue with pick list.
Continue pick list
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A list of pick lists is displayed with the following information:
- Number of pick lists
- Number of orders
- Number of items
- Pick list details (date of generation, status, orders, items and actions)
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Select the pick list for which you want to continue packing and click Continue Packing.
Continue packing link
If there is only one pick list in progress, you will be redirected to the pick list view.
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Continue with the process as it was described previously.
Shipping
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The last step for a SFS process is to confirm Shipping by printing a Shipping Manifest.
Print shipping manifest
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The Shipping Manifesto gathers all the information related to this pick list including:
- Carrier identification
- Pick list ID
- Number of packages
- Number of orders and packages by order
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While other information is filled manually:
- Date and time
- Store assistant
- Carrier driver
Shipping manifest
Give orders to carrier
Confirm the order was collected by the carrier by clicking Confirm Shipping.
Confirm shipping
Pick list Complete
The status of the pick list changes to Complete
and the status of the order is Shipped
.
Pick list
Complete
Status of a pick list
You can always check the status and information of the pick lists that have been packed:
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Navigate to Sales > Ship from store.
Sales > Ship from store
- Select the store from which you want to check the status of the different pick lists.
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Click View pick list.
Pick list button
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A list of pick lists will appear.
Pick list information