The Inventory Dashboard

The inventory performance index, which is a result of how well you manage the fulfillment of your inventory and your consumer orders. If this should drop below the 350 mark and enter the red zone, then your account could be at risk, and your storage limits in the Amazon fulfillment centers for FBA will become limited If you click on this link.

It will also give you the top influencing factors for your performance index, such as excess inventory, creating a negative performance, good sell through, which could have a positive effect on your performance index, stranded inventory, which would have a negative impact, and in stock inventory, which could have a positive or negative effect if you scroll down on the page.

It will also give you suggestions on ways to improve your performance for each of these four influencing factors with quick link patterns to the right of each restock inventory or SKUs to restock today, which is a quick link where you can restock SKUs needing to be restocked as of today. By selecting which SKUs you wish to restock and selecting the Create a shipping plan from the action button at the top left of the table for multiple SKUs or the gray view details button.

And then clicking Create Shipping Plan to the right of each skew line item. If you wish to do it singly, manage excess inventory or the excess units quick link. Which are both quick links to the current excess inventory you wish to manage. From the options available, you can choose to create a sale, create a removal, advertise, improve keywords, update product settings, or create outlet deals in order to manage this excess inventory that is not moving as fast as anticipated.

This table of skews will show you how many days worth of supply Amazon has in their fulfillment centers of the skew, as well as the estimated excess units which you can choose to deal with the units sold and the reason why they are so low, such as low traffic or low conversion rate. Your pricing and your lowest price in case you wish to match your low price for a time to try get stock moving.

The inventory age link or the block saying days in inventory, which shows the number of days your FBA inventory is expected to last across all your products turns is the number of times your FBA inventory will turn annually based on your current inventory and sales rates on the inventory age page.

You will be presented with a table of affected SKUs where you can choose any of the following actions to assist you in managing this inventory.

Create a sale, update product settings, edit the listing, improve the keywords, advertise the listing, lower the price, or create a removal order. The fixed stranded inventory link, which is a quick link through to the stranded inventory page where you can complete the actions as expanded in an earlier video on this topic, the Manage FBA returns link.

Which is an overview of customer returns that were supplied via FBA. You can see what SKUs are being returned, the customer return reason, the return authorization date. The customer refund date, the unit received date, the disposition if the product list defective or damaged, the return status and an action button that you can view the details of the return on the dashboard itself.

You will also have a notifications block on the right side of the page with quick link buttons to improve issues affecting your performance, such as SKUs with low traffic. With low conversion, SKUs will incur long-term storage fees, and any SKUs that qualify for outlet deals, etc.