What should I do if Amazon has low inventory and no orders? What is the impact of out-of-stock?

Today, Amazon can be said to be a relatively famous platform among cross-border e-commerce platforms. After opening a store on Amazon, everyone found that their inventory was very low, which led to their store not receiving orders. What should I do if Amazon’s inventory is low and no orders are received?

1. What should I do if Amazon has low inventory and cannot issue orders?

1. Manage FBA inventory in a refined manner

It is very important to manage FBA inventory data. Amazon's backend replenishment logic lacks third-party factors. When creating a replenishment plan through the backend, it is inevitable that the FBA replenishment quantity will be inaccurate. At this time, merchants should use the FBA inventory analysis and management system to combine inventory status, sales, returns, inventory age data and other factors that affect inventory, and formulate a set of FBA replenishment formulas to make the FBA replenishment quantity more accurate.

2. Follow your own listing

Many sellers, when they don’t have time to restock but don’t want to share a piece of the pie with their competitors, will choose to copy-sell their own listings and then adopt the self-delivery model. This can ensure that the ranking does not drop too much. In addition, in order to keep the shopping cart, the copy-sell price should be slightly higher than the original product price.

3. Increase product prices

In addition to copying your own listing, raising the price of the product is also a safe method. Sellers can reduce the number of orders and reduce the impact of FBA out-of-stock by raising the price of the product. However, this method will lead to a decrease in the conversion rate of the listing, thereby affecting the weight of the store and further affecting the seller rank.

2. What is the impact of out-of-stock?

Amazon, like many cross-border e-commerce platforms, has assessments on the delivery time of merchants, and this assessment carries a large proportion of the total. If a merchant runs out of stock and cannot ship a product, they will be punished by the platform, causing the product ranking and display to drop, causing the store to suffer losses.

If your Amazon inventory is low and you are not placing orders, you must manage your FBA inventory in a refined manner. Out-of-stock situations in Amazon stores are quite serious. In order to avoid such situations, merchants should make preparations in advance and prepare more backup plans, so as to reduce losses.

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