Manage Inventory Health gives you the ability to manage your low-on-stock, excess, and aged inventory in one place and use a variety of metrics to help you make decisions about whether to restock, reprice, advertise, or remove items. The Manage Inventory Health page can help you optimize your inventory within your storage or restock limits, reduce costs, and improve your Inventory Performance Index (IPI) score.
The Inventory age view gives you information about how long your units have been in the fulfilment centre. This view shows you the following information:
This view also shows your recent sales performance for each SKU and identifies opportunities for you to increase traffic or sales conversion to help sell through your aged inventory.
The Manage Excess Inventory tool helps you quickly identify listings that might have excess inventory levels and review relevant information to take the appropriate action. The tool highlights factors that could be limiting sales of your products and suggests actions that could help you improve inventory performance.
The Restock Inventory tool provides recommendations on products to restock, suggested order quantities, and reorder dates. It helps you keep track of your inventory so that you have enough product to meet demand. You can further customize your recommendations by providing supplier information such as order lead time and case-pack quantities
The Manage Inventory Health page offers many features to help you make the right decisions about your excess and aged inventory.
The Inventory age column includes available plus reserved units minus units that are pending removal. These are shown for any product that has at least one unit available for sale through fulfilment by Amazon (FBA).
Inventory age is based on the number of days that a unit has been in the fulfilment centre. FBA accounts for inventory on a first-in, first-out basis across our entire fulfilment network. This means that each sale or removal will be applied to the inventory that has been in our fulfilment network the longest, regardless of which physical unit was actually delivered or removed.
If the long-term storage fee is applicable to the Amazon store in which you sell, inventory that has been in a fulfilment centre for more than 365 days is subject to the fee. The fee is assessed on the 15th of each month. Inventory age shows the number of units that would be subject to the long-term storage fee and the estimated fee amount as of the next charge date, assuming no further sales. For more information, go to FBA long-term storage fees.
Manage Inventory Health shows shipped units, and the orders detail page shows ordered units. Manage Inventory Health shipped-units data relies on sources that cause a one-day delay, whereas orders detail data is in real time.
For an FBA listing, total quantity refers to fulfillable units that are available or on their way to the fulfilment centre. It does not include unfulfillable units (such as damaged units) or units that are being delivered to a buyer. For a seller-fulfilled listing, the total quantity is the same as the available quantity, as specified by the seller.
Estimated total storage cost refers to the costs that you would incur if you took no action to help sell through or remove your inventory. This estimate includes monthly and long-term storage fees and the holding cost of capital if applicable.
Our goal is to help you easily identify potentially excess inventory and provide recommended actions aimed at helping you better manage the return on your inventory investment. In some cases, the recommendation may be to remove units from your inventory. Several factors influence our recommendations, including the following:
SKU-level alerts:
Demand:
In addition to the alerts, you can also view how many units of a product have been sold over the past 7, 30, 60, and 90 days by hovering over a product’s Units sold column. This will allow you to gauge sales relative to your total inventory. If you want to remove an item from your inventory, select Create removal order in the actions list.
Good inventory management can be challenging, because the right amount of stock varies based on future demand and the cost of carrying too much or too little inventory. The recommendations are intended to give you information that you can use to determine the correct amount of inventory.
Inventory management recommendations and related estimates (for example, estimated days of supply) are based on a variety of factors, including your sales history, the season, and the product’s historical selling prices and sales volume. To fine-tune these recommendations, you can enter additional details about your business, such as the lead time that your supplier requires for new orders, reorder frequency, and minimum order quantities.
No. You can enter a nickname or code to represent your suppliers. Your restock recommendations will not be affected.
To indicate that a SKU is not replenishable, take the following steps:
Hiding replenishable SKUs is not an effective way to increase your IPI score for the following reasons:
You can fine-tune your restock recommendations by adjusting product-level information such as supplier lead time and reorder frequency. To update these settings, click View details for a product to go to the SKU details page. You can also configure your settings in bulk by clicking Product settings.
These alerts are intended to alert you to certain conditions that could affect the relevance of your recommendations, such as the following:
Recommended order date: The suggested date to reorder the product from your supplier to avoid running out of stock, based on your estimated days of supply and lead time.
Recommended order quantity: The recommendation for the number of units to buy from your supplier.
Restock inputs: Enter values in these fields to fine-tune your recommendations: