Feature request: add filter to `GET /inbound/fba/2024-03-20/inboundPlans/{inboundPlanId}/transportationOptions` aka `listTransportationOptions`

[johnkw]

Feature request: add filter to GET /inbound/fba/2024-03-20/inboundPlans/{inboundPlanId}/transportationOptions aka listTransportationOptions

This is a pseudo-regression from the previous API, which only ever returned APC freight specifically.

We only ever want entries with 'shippingMode' == 'FREIGHT_LTL' and 'shippingSolution' == 'AMAZON_PARTNERED_CARRIER'. But we have to wade through 1000s of carrier options, that are mostly useless parcel mode or whatever. Very wasteful and slow.

[lightningja]

second that. btw, I was never able to get AMAZON_PARTNERED_CARRIER for FREIGHT_LTL, and none of the LTL option include quote. Are you facing the same issue?

[MeenaAmz]

Thank you for raising this request. Please provide more details on your use case and impact so we can review the feature request.

Thanks, Meena Selling Partner API Developer Services

[johnkw]

The impact is that retrieving a few 1000 rows of listTransportationOptions information takes around a minute, and is around a megabyte of pointless network bandwidth transfer.

If we could filter down to just 'shippingMode' == 'FREIGHT_LTL' and 'shippingSolution' == 'AMAZON_PARTNERED_CARRIER' it would be much smaller and much faster.

Actually upon further pondering here, the filter should really be on the https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/docs/fulfillment-inbound-api-v2024-03-20-reference#generatetransportationoptionsrequest call. If Amazon has to do some sort of back-end work to create these transportation options in the first place, there's no purpose in creating options for us for non-LTL shippers, and non-APC shippers. We have no intention right now of ever using either.

[hamduc7]

I have the same problem: I list 5 SKUS, but it generates 5 placement options. Each option has 2 shipments, and each has 185 transportation options, for 1850 options.

But actually, we only care about Amazon-partnered carriers, or some carriers like UPS, USP...

It is too slow. If we have a way to filter the transport options then it will speed up the process.

[MeenaAmz]

Thank you @johnkw, @lightningja and @hamduc7 for proposing this enhancement. We have submitted the feature request for review. Once we receive additional information we will post an update.

Thanks, Meena Selling Partner API Developer Services

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