Fixing Stranded Inventory

When you delete or close a listing or change it from fulfilled by Amazon to fulfilled by merchant, it might strand your inventory. Product listing issues, infringement concerns, or system errors can also result in stranded inventory. If you have units of an ASIN stranded in the fulfillment center. Do not send additional inventory of that ASIN to Amazon.

If you add an ASIN with stranded inventory to your shipment, you will receive an alert and your shipment will not be processed. Amazon will notify you about stranded inventory in three ways by email on a fixed stranded inventory link accessible via the tab on managed inventory and on the fixed stranded inventory page.

If you address the cause for the stranded inventory yourself, please allow 24 hours for the updates to reflect in your stranded inventory. You can avoid the stranded inventory issues in the following ways. Do not close or delete a listing immediately after selling through your inventory. If there is last inventory at the fulfillment center, or if there are customer returns of an item without an active offer, this inventory will be stranded.

Bulk upload templates. If the quantity column is populated on bulk upload templates, for example, the inventory loader listings will change from filled by Amazon to fulfilled by merchant automatically, which strands your inventory.

Additionally, if you do not fill out the is this product a battery or does it require batteries column, it may strand your inventory in some categories. Remember from previous videos that filling in the batteries columns was for FBA or fulfilled by Amazon stock? Avoid creating multiple offers for the same product.

When you create a new or revised and existing listing, make sure the ASIN, SKU and condition are the same as the inventory in your stranded inventory list. Include all vital information for listing before sending a shipment, including the brand, category, price and condition. In order to manage your stranded inventory, you would need to go to your manage inventory page by selecting Manage Inventory from the dropdown menu of the inventory tab on the top menu of Seller Central.

At the top of the next page click on the link that reads. Fix stranded inventory link. This page will provide you with a table of your stranded SKUs. You will see a stranded reason column in the table. This column shows why each listing is stranded, and when you hover over this reason, you will see more information and instructions on how to fix the stranded SKU.

Sometimes the listing shows as active on managed inventory while it shows as stranded on fixed stranded inventory. Note that the fixed stranded inventory has the most accurate and up to date information. You will be able to filter by stranded reasons and recommendations. Which will allow you to sort and better understand why listings are stranded and what to do to resolve each issue.

The date of stranded event column shows you how long your inventory has been stranded while accumulating storage fees. You can also use the date shown in this column to help locate email and performance notifications relating to the listing. The following one, click actions are also available for each line item in the table.

One click re-list allows you to re-list without leaving the page to edit the listing. Before activating it, click edit, or re-list one. Click. Change to FBA allows you to change fulfillment channels without leaving the page. This option is available only for listings that include dangerous goods information.

You must provide a dangerous, good submission for all listings. If you have not provided this information for a product or if you need to change it, select change to fba.

The following bulk and automatic actions are available. Bulk re-list allows you to select up to 25 items to re-list at once. After choosing these items, you can then re-list all listings at once. With one click re-list as a recommended action. When re-listing in bulk, you cannot make catalog or listing changes for any of the affected listings.

To edit the listing before activating it, you would need to click edit or re-list. Bulk one, click Change to FBA allows you to select 25 items at once to change fulfillment channels. After choosing these items, you can then re-list all listings at once. With one click changed FBA as the recommended action. When using one click change to FBA in bulk, you cannot provide or update dangerous goods information to provide dangerous goods information used change to FBA.

Automatic re-list will automatically re-list inventory that has been stranded for 30 days Under these stranded reasons. Listing closed, listing closed and inventory error and item discontinued. You can adjust the setting by clicking the edits Automatic action settings button at the top of the page for listings that you don’t want automatically re-listed.

Select opt out of auto action in the dropdown arrows to the right of the listing if it is available. Automatic change to FBA will automatically change the performance channel to FBA for inventory that is being stranded for 30 days under the stranded reason Merchant fulfill, you can adjust the setting by clicking the Edit Automatic Action Settings button at the top of the page for listings that you don’t want change to FBA.

Select opt out of Auto Action in the drop down arrows to the right of the listing, if it is applicable. Auto re-list can be set to re-list in as little as two days. Auto changed to FBA can change fulfillment channels in less than one day if you set it to zero days.

If you manage expiration dates by stranding inventory, you can avoid automatic reactivation by setting the start selling date or offer start date to strand the inventory until a future time. Automatic actions will not apply to these listings. If your inventory remains stranded, you will receive an email notification from Amazon 30 days after this notification.

Your inventory will be classified as unsellable. Once it is classified as unsellable. You will have 30 days to remove your inventory or will be disposed of. Reasons for product to be stranded can be found in the dropdown menu of the stranded reasons filter. At the top of the table on the left, if you have large quantities of stranded inventory, you may be able to fix these issues in bulk by clicking on the fix stranded inventory in bulk link at the top of the page.

Here you can download a spreadsheet and update prices or change listings to fulfilled by Amazon. The tool does not support actions requiring special documentation. For example, if an appeal or approval process is required. After clicking on the fixed stranded inventory and bulk link at the top of the page, you would then click the yellow request download on the next page.

When the report is ready, click the link beneath the report status header and open your report in the bottom left corner of the page. Add any missing attributes such as price, ASIN, SKU, and condition, and then proceed to upload your file, add products via upload page as previous explained. Remembering that you need to convert your report to TXT format before uploading as this is the ideal.

It is important to know to gain that if you have no stranded inventory to fix. The fixed stranded inventory link at the top of the manage inventory page will not show up.