Hi,

We want to ditch PAN-FBA due to rising costs and lower sales, and just keep our profitable ones (FR and DE). Germany is an absolute nightmare to ship to though - with its deductive method, and assistance on a paid representative, that adds about €2 onto each item

France we have found much better to deal with. So my question - with MCI, if we had France and Germany, are we able to tell the French FC to move stock to the DE one? (even if we have to pay for the privilege). Ideally, I would have loved to have PAN-FBA while just being registered for FR/DE, but I don’t think that’s possible?

This page seems to suggest we can keep stock in just 1 or 2 FCs (that we are VAT registered for), and remove the listings on the other marketplaces we don’t want to store in. This would then move it to MCI:

ASINs without active offers on all applicable Amazon European marketplaces

ASINs for which you do not maintain an active FBA offer in all the Amazon European marketplaces listed as required on the Pan-European FBA Inventory page in your selling on Amazon account will not qualify as a Pan-European Eligible ASIN.

Nonetheless, by enabling inventory placement in additional countries (beyond your home marketplace) in your FBA settings or by selecting an additional country in the shipping workflow for these ASINs, you can ship your inventory to and you authorize Amazon to store it in fulfillment centers in the countries you select, (this option was previously known as ‘Multi-Country Inventory’ or ‘MCI’). For these ASINs, local Fulfillment Fees will apply only when the enrollment of an ASIN into a customer’s order is actually fulfilled from your locally stored inventory. Cross-border Fulfillment Fees for EFN will apply when a customer’s order is fulfilled remotely. Because these ASINs are not part of Pan-European FBA, you need to manage your inventory and demand forecasting yourself. To avoid unplanned fees, we recommend that you maintain your inventory levels in each country and replenish frequently. To view stock levels on a per-country basis, use the Daily inventory report.

But does that mean Amazon will move stock automatically between the 2 FCs for us, or we would need to keep both topped up with stock individually?

Thanks in advance

Andy