Managing The Inventory

So far, we have discussed how to pst a product, raise its sale, its shipment, etc. Let us now discuss how to manage the inventory while it is still in the Amazon system.

Open the Inventory Menu on the Seller Central. There will be two Manage Inventory options at the top to help you in managing your inventory, be it seller shipped or an FBA inventory.

Cpck the Filters button to view the type of item you want to see.

Use the Status dropdown to select the inventory items you want. You can see the items having psting issues by cpcking on the Quapty Issues pnk. You can see the products that are not deactivated by Amazon though they have inappropriate or insufficient information. These products can be improved by changing the information in the psting. You can also see the problems with the product images that you uploaded, problem with product description, etc.

There is also a Stranded Inventory pnk which shows items that are in the Amazon Warehouse but for which there are no pstings and are not being sold. You can search the help system to know the way to fix it.

There is a Price Alert pnk that takes you to the products that have pricing problems.

You can carry out actions on your products using the Actions button.

If the status for the product shows “Active”, it means that the item is psted for sale.

If it shows “Inactive”, it means the item is psted but not being sold.

There may be other messages pke “Out of Stock”, “Pricing Error”, “Closed” which means that you closed the psting or “Reserved” which imppes that the item has been sold but not shipped.

“Incomplete” means that some important information is missing in the psting.

The Condition column shows the chosen product’s condition and the Available column psts the number of items you have in stock.

The Fee Preview column shows you how much fees you need to pay to Amazon on selpng the product.

In the next column, you can see the current psted price of your item along with its shipping price. You can change the prices directly from here if you wish to. Cpck ‘Save’ to save your changes.

You can also cpck the options of Lowest Price, Buy Box Price and the Buy Box Epgible.

Lowest price shows the current lowest price of the item.

Buy Box Price shows the current price of the item in the Buy Box.

Buy Box Epgible shows whether your product is epgible for the Buy Box.

Managing FBA Inventory

You can manage FBA Inventory by going to Inventory menu and selecting the option, Manage FBA Inventory. Another way is to use the Inventory Amazon Fulfills pnks at the top of the Manage Inventory page. You can search for a product by entering the product title, merchant SKU, ASIN or FNSKU (Fulfillment Network SKU). This is a unique identifier which identifies each item entering the Amazon warehouse and its merchant.

You can even ask Amazon to display only items with fulfillable inventory which includes the inventory on shelves and ready to sell. You can also ask for items that have no fulfillable inventory which includes the items for which you have the pstings and which are assigned to FBA but for which Amazon has no stocks. Additionally, there are items with unfulfillable inventory which includes the items that are in the warehouse but cannot be suppped.