We are fighting through this at the moment, trying to get equipment to new hires in India. There are plenty of authorized resellers there, but for reasons I don’t understand getting wire transfers to them reliably has been not possible.
In theory here’s the ideal workflow. This assumes you have an Apple Business Manager account set up.
1) Get reseller ID from the reseller.
2) Add that reseller ID to your Apple Business Account.
3) Ensure that your Apple Business Account is set to auto-assign systems to your MDM.
4) Provide your Apple Business account ID to the reseller when ordering and instruct them to register the purchase with your account. Have them ship the equipment to your employee.
If all of this happens correctly, the machine will register itself with your MDM upon first connection to Wi-Fi during the initial setup wizard, and will configure itself according to your MDM.
1) Get reseller ID from the reseller.
2) Add that reseller ID to your Apple Business Account.
3) Ensure that your Apple Business Account is set to auto-assign systems to your MDM.
4) Provide your Apple Business account ID to the reseller when ordering and instruct them to register the purchase with your account. Have them ship the equipment to your employee.
If all of this happens correctly, the machine will register itself with your MDM upon first connection to Wi-Fi during the initial setup wizard, and will configure itself according to your MDM.