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On June 28th, we held an Ask Amazon live thread focused on answering seller questions about the Send To Amazon workflow and the September 1, 2022 migration date. We received your questions, concerns and comments and took action. Thank you to all of the sellers below and many more who brought these concerns to our attention so that we can better align with your seller community’s business needs.
MontanaSasquatch
universal
OakWallet
Gandalf
Mano_and_Mano
user12345
xyz_clothing
Since the June Ask Amazon, the product team has launched two new features in the Send To Amazon workflow:
Merge your Shipments and Workflows
In the Confirm shipping step of Send to Amazon, you can now merge new workflows with existing workflows. The workflows must contain shipments that have the same ship from address, mode and fulfillment center destination.These shipments will be merged into a single shipment. The workflows will be merged into a single workflow that contains all of the merged and non-merged shipments.
Active Workflows Now Have Up To 30 Workflows
In the Active Workflow modal you can now see up to 30 of your most recent active workflows. This has been increased from the previous limit of 9 workflows.
Your comments, questions and concerns helped us make these updates. We appreciate all of your constructive participation and feedback and will continue to provide updates on further feature changes based on the feedback that has been provided.
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Seller_OBMEc8OBQy4TW
One of the major issues brought up was how oversize tier shipments were split. Any resolution to that? @VTR
Kelly_Amazon
@PureDesignOnline as promised, here are two confirmed changes that resulted from the policy-focused category of “Ask Amazon” that you requested under the Quick Tip.
Kelly
Seller_60B8if7ot0P0r
I appreciate the additional workflows being added. Now we just need the ability to rename the workflows early in the process.
Seller_OChH0VD9utdxq
Where’s the Made in the USA badges, and country of origin search filter that was asked for in one of those sessions? It was an overwhelming majority of posters looking for both.
Its getting old dealing with the thousands of incoming chinese imports, especially the ones that violate US IP.
Seller_kOkkgM0mMa5nF
Hi Kelly. In the workflow, it asks for the box weight and dimensions BEFORE getting to the “print item labels” step. Or maybe I’m just not looking close enough, and there IS a way to print the labels before submitting the box dimensions? If so, that’s great. But if not, this will cause me a problem, since I usually don’t know the final box dimensions until I’ve packed everything. I know that sounds weird, but here’s why:
I determine the number of books I’ll be packing into a given box based on the weight… I usually like to stay around 40 lbs, even though I know the max is 50. So as I’m prepping books, every once in awhile I weigh what I’ve done so far, and when I get to around 40 lbs that’s it. At this point I normally would print out the labels, stick them on the books, and arrange the books as compactly as I can (think Tetris 
). If it just so happens that this pretty much fills the box right to the top, that’s great. Crumple up a few sheets of paper for the very top, seal it up, and ready to go.
HOWEVER, more often than not there’s still quite a bit of room left in the top of the box, and so what I do is cut down each corner at the seems till it’s level with the top of the stack of books, and fold the flaps over. The final result is a nice compact box that looks like it was made just the perfect size for those bunch of books. This has worked great up till now. After sealing up the box, then I move onto the next step, and submit the box weight and dimensions.
But if I have to submit them BEFORE printing the labels, that means I have quite a bit of extra work to do. That being: Packing the books into the box as I always do, cutting down the box, measuring and weighing the re-sized box (WITHOUT sealing it)… and then… TAKING THEM ALL BACK OUT of the box. Since only now am I able to print the labels. And once I print them and stick them on the books, I get to pack them all back into the box and HOPE I remember exactly how I packed them up the first time. Yeah… FUN!
Now like I say, there may indeed be a way to print the labels earlier in the process. And if so, my little rant I’ve just typed out wasn’t necessary. Oh well, at least I’ve proven how OCD I can be with my packing! 
Seller_IEYYpSVI8o9Yi
As a bookseller listing and packing 30 or more individual AISNs into each shipment, I find the new workflow so daunting, time-consuming and unworkable that I will simply stop sending FBA shipments. I also find Amazon’s deliberate deafness to seller’s pleas to keep the old method in place somewhat unsettling.
On the upside, if I am to be managing all my inventory FBM I will be taking advantage of the opportunity to cross-post my books to multiple sites, and I’m currently investigating different softwares to assist me with this.
Seller_qJ5kGGsQ4lrrx
Is there any way to move confirm the case size and weight to the end of workflow? Cuz we need find a best way to make sure each case has a equal weight…so the quality for each sku has to adjustable…
For the new workflow, we have to confirm the size and weight before we final decide the quantity…
Any idea to fix it?
Seller_riY7LzcoQwq27
Hi Kelly:
I would like to be able to share Case Pack Templates across all SKUs for a given ASIN.
We sell in the perishable Grocery category and regularly have to create new SKUs for lot/Expiration Date tracking. It is very frustrating to have to create a new Case Pack Template every time. There is no reason that I can think of that Case Pack Templates should not be sharable across the ASIN.
Thanks!
Seller_LvikvLIShLw0U
Asked amazon ==i/e selling a pair of thirty pound speakers total 60 pounds what I need is two labels—buyers are lazy they don’t read one @ this price move on to buy the second one-selling two w/the weight getting hit with item OVERPRICED
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