Excess inventory
My excess inventory has suddenly dropped to zero.
Has anyone else seen this? Have they changed the definition or is it yet another Amazon glitch?
Excess inventory
My excess inventory has suddenly dropped to zero.
Has anyone else seen this? Have they changed the definition or is it yet another Amazon glitch?
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Seller_77IcbQKVGdZo0
Mine is currently at 0.54% but a few days ago it was significantly higher than that.
Perhaps they have a new way of measuring it. My excess inventory has always been high between 12 and 20%…but I have never agreed that I have had that much excess inventory.
Seller_NoMNQDGnEW5Bx
Mine is zero too plus it claims 49% of my inventory has been there longer than a year so someone has obviously been pressing the wrong buttons on an update again
Seller_n33KwLeg9XOvi
My Inventory Age is showing 600 units in FBA longer than 365 days - LTSF due tomorrow. These units were only sent on over this Christmas period. Clearly there is a Glitch
Seller_n33KwLeg9XOvi
Mine is back to 14 Units and the ltsf download report is now accurate!!! Is anyone else’s back to normal?
Seller_Yja9oH7DLHk2I
@Julia_Amazon
Mine still says that my excess stock is zero despite me clearly having stock more than 1 year old.
Even more depressingly my IPI score still went down this week!
Julia_Amzn
Thank you for replies @ Smiley_Guy and @ Paul73!
Did you report this issue?
I will try to get to the team, which can provide more insights.
Julia.
Julia_Amzn
Good morning Everyone,
I want to check if this error has been fixed and if you still need support.
Have a great day!
Julia.
Julia_Amzn
Hello Everyone,
I will raise this issue to internal teams again.
I have managed to find out, that for many sellers the error has been fixed automatically, but for some sellers it has to be done individually. For this reason, I would like to ask you to submit a case to the Seller Support and provide me with the case ID - in this thread or via DM, so I can collect data and take it further.
@ Paul73, @ Sequin, @ Smiley_Guy
It would help a lot!
Kind regards,
Julia.
Seller_Yja9oH7DLHk2I
@Julia_Amazon
Case ID: 8329802172
I am fully expecting a cut and paste answer telling me what excess stock is. I hope I am wrong.
Thanks
Seller_Yja9oH7DLHk2I
@Julia_Amazon I wrote back again and asked them to address my issue. They failed again. Sorry Julia, I won’t be wasting any more of my time.
Hello from Amazon Selling Partner Support,
My name is Tanu. It will be my pleasure to assist you today with your request.
I understand your concerns regarding excess inventory percentage.
Apologies for the inconvenience caused to you and I’ll be happy to assist you today as I certainly understand this request is important for your business.
Please be informed that our goal is to help you to easily identify potential excess inventory and provide recommended actions aimed at helping you to better manage the return on your inventory investment.
Recommended actions
The recommended action is the default action shown in the drop-down menu to the right of each product. Recommendations are based on economic calculations specific to your business and products. You can take another action by selecting from the drop-down menu. Possible recommended actions are:
1.Edit listing – This recommendation appears when your listing may have quality issues. By clicking on this action, you will be taken to the product catalogue. Look for the alerts in the catalogue to fix the listing issues.
2.Improve keywords – Your product may have low traffic because Customers cannot find your product via search. This action helps you optimise how your listing appears in searches.
3.Advertise listing – This starts the Sponsored Products workflow. Advertising is a proven way to drive additional traffic to your listing.
4.Create sales – Based on the price elasticity of this product and your product inputs, we make this recommendation if we feel that you can get a higher return on your inventory by temporarily marking down prices to sell through your inventory faster. We provide a recommended sale price and duration. We may recommend lowering beyond the lowest price to boost sales.
5.Create removal – We recommend creating a Removal Order when we feel that you can get a better return on your inventory through sales channels other than Amazon, based on your Recovery rate input and product demand. We may not recommend you removal all inventory, just enough to get back to healthy levels.
SKU-level alerts
These alerts help identify listing issues that may be affecting your product visibility and sales.
1.Quality alert – Indicates that the listing may be incomplete or incorrect. Customers search and browse the Amazon catalogue using specific product details. If your listing information is incomplete or incorrect, it becomes more difficult for buyers to find, evaluate and purchase your inventory. Clicking Edit listing will allow you to edit the listing and fix quality issues.
2.Low traffic – Indicates that a low number of potential buyers have seen the listings. Use the Improve keywords feature in the actions list to optimise how your listing appears in searches. The Advertise listing feature allows you to advertise through Sponsored Products to drive additional traffic to your listing.
3.Low conversion – Indicates that potential buyers are viewing the listing but do not follow through and purchase the product. Ensuring a high-quality detail page through the Edit listing feature and pricing competitively through Create sale or Lower price helps improve conversion rates. In some cases, due to low demand, we may recommend removing some of the inventory if we calculate that removal is more cost-effective than incurring Storage fees.
For detailed information refer to the help page here:
https://sellercentral.amazon.uk/help/hub/reference/G201634510
We appreciate your patience and understanding in this matter.
Please let us know how we did.
