Eliminate Amazon Barcode Labelling
Hello,
We are thinking of Eliminate Amazon Barcode Labelling and just using our manufacturers barcode. It would save us a lot of time and labour costs.
However I have a few questions regarding this I hope you are able to help me with. To change over we need to create a new SKU and this could potentially cause some problems.
1) Is the sales history on the SKU or ASIN ? - If on the SKU and we change the SKU, would this mean we would lose all the sale history and potentially the ranking ?
2) Subscribe and save, if we change the SKU, wouldn't this impact the subscribe and save orders?
3) How do I change over to the manufacturers barcode without a) having to recall all the Amazon Barcode labelled stock or b) go out of stock ?
Many thanks
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Seller_C3azhlpOXMJTs
Hi,
I recently went through the same exercise. We don't use subscribe and save, however for the other 2 points:
1. Sales history are at SKU, product feedback, ranking etc. is at ASIN. Short term you'll have to reconcile 2 different SKUs to obtain full sales history. You shouldn't have any issues with anything customer-facing such as ranking.
3. We created a second, manufacturer-label SKU for each ASIN with an existing FNSKU barcode requirement. Once done, create an inbound shipment and send your manufacturer-labelled products against your new SKUs (meaning you'll have active inventory against multiple SKUs of the same ASIN). Doesn't matter and you'll find FBA orders are fulfilled from both. (We didn't see the need but...) if you wanted a clean route, send your inventory but set the Release Date for the manufacturer-label SKUs in the future. This means they can't be sold, hence the old items will sell first, but you can send inventory and have it ready for when the time is right.
Hope this helps!
