Where can I check Amazon's IPI? How can I improve it?

To run an Amazon store, you need to know what some data and indicators represent. For example, Amazon's IPI indicator will affect inventory space. This article will tell you where to see Amazon's IPI?

Enter the Seller Center and go to the "Inventory" operation page to see the current IPI score of the store. The seller's IPI score is usually calculated once a week and updated on Monday.

How to improve?

1. Excess inventory (redundant inventory rate, including overstock and inventory age) Through Amazon's inventory panel, you can quickly identify products that have been in stock for too long (more than 90 days). Unsalable inventory will seriously affect your inventory performance score and profits! So, the lower the better. How to reduce redundant inventory is a question that every seller must seriously consider.

How to improve IPI score: Analyze the reasons for redundancy, sort out inventory, and deal with unsalable inventory. Deal with these products by price reduction, flash sales, warehouse transfer or destruction, and delete problematic or faulty SKUs.

2. Sell-through rate (sales/inventory ratio), which is the number of products sold and shipped in the past 90 days divided by the 90-day average inventory of Amazon FBA warehouses. The higher the better.

Your sell-through score depends on your ordering level and sales ability. If you order 30 days of goods and prepare 7 days of safety stock, and you can finish all of them in 90 days, then your SELL THROUGH score is 90/(7+37)/2=4.09

How to improve IPI score: The number of products sold is an important factor in measuring the sales rate. After careful research and judgment, launching new products to boost the overall order volume is a quick and effective method.

3. In-stock inventory: This is the ratio of time that the product was in stock in the past 30 days. The higher the better. A product out of stock will also affect the IPI. Restocking can increase the in-stock rate. If there are products in your inventory that cannot be replenished, you need to reset the replenishment frequency or mark them and hide them. The restock inventory interface can perform related operations.

How to improve IPI score: The sales volume of a product is directly related to the IPI of the product. Therefore, before the evaluation period begins, sellers should focus on increasing the sales volume of best-selling products and always keep the best-selling products in stock.

In general, Amazon merchants can enter the Seller Center and see the store’s current IPI score on the “Incentory” operation page.