What is automatic removal on Amazon US? What are the advantages?

In order to help sellers maximize inventory space and save inventory management costs before the annual Amazon Prime Day, maximize the recovery of the remaining value of unsaleable inventory, and help sellers simplify the inventory management process, Amazon will make the latest changes to automatic removal in the near future!

1. What is automatic removal from Amazon US?

Reduce costs! Automatic removal applies to overage and idle inventory, as well as unsaleable inventory. These stocks are usually more than six months or more without sales records. Removing this part of the inventory can help you reduce additional expenses such as long-term storage fees.

Increase revenue! Automatic removal does not mean direct disposal of inventory. Now Amazon has added rating and resale, bulk clearance program, so you can still recover part of the inventory cost.

More convenient! The automatic removal function will automatically help you process your inventory in order of value recovery from large to small, without the need for sellers to do anything manually; if sellers no longer want to use the automatic removal function, they can exit the automatic removal function at any time on the seller platform.

Automatically remove overage and idle salable inventory (US site)

Starting April 15, 2022, Amazon will automatically remove overage and idle inventory on a monthly basis, and sellers can also choose to opt out of automatic removal (if you want to update the automatic removal settings, please update at least 24 hours before April 15 to ensure that the system saves your changes).

Aged inventory: Inventory that has been in a fulfillment center for more than 365 days and is subject to long-term storage fees.

Idle inventory: ASINs that have no sales records for six consecutive months or longer and have been stored in Amazon's fulfillment centers for more than 180 days. Automatic removal of unsaleable inventory (US/Europe/Japan) In addition to the automatic removal of overage and idle inventory, Amazon has also optimized the options in [Automatic settings for unsaleable products] to provide sellers with more services to recover inventory value:

Amazon US: Two services, [Refurbished] and [Bulk Clearance], have been launched;

Amazon Europe: Three services have been launched: [Refurbished], [Rating and Resale], and [Bulk Clearance];

Amazon Japan: Currently only the [Repackaging] service is available.

2. Advantages of automatic removal on Amazon US

Automatic removal of obsolete inventory can help sellers save long-term storage fees and improve inventory performance index scores. Inventory management is an important part of preparing for peak season sales, and automatic removal can automatically clean up unhealthy inventory for you, recover the remaining value, and save a lot of worries about managing inventory!

1. Save long-term storage costs

Use automatic removals to regularly remove overage and idle inventory, helping sellers reduce storage fees while increasing your inventory capacity.

2. Use automatic removal to regularly remove overage and idle inventory, helping sellers reduce storage fees while increasing your inventory capacity.

Sellers can use automatic removal to clean up excess inventory in a timely manner, which helps improve IPI scores and avoid warehouse rejections that affect replenishment planning during peak seasons.

3. Free up inventory capacity

By creating bulk clearance removal orders using the FBA Bulk Clearance program, sellers can quickly process inventory that was originally scheduled for disposal or destruction, and inventory capacity will be immediately freed up.

4. Recycling product value

Automatic removal can not only help sellers clean up inventory efficiently, but also recover part of the value of the goods and avoid unnecessary waste.

So, how can you reduce losses through automatically removed inventory? With the help of Amazon Logistics Bulk Clearance Program (FBA Liquidations), you can clean up redundant inventory and efficiently release inventory capacity. At the same time, you can also avoid storage fees and disposal fees, and maximize the recovery of product value!