Regarding the issue of limiting storage capacity, the 2020 Amazon Global Selling Cross-Border Summit said...

Recently, many sellers have faced the problem of out-of-stock. Although sellers are desperately raising prices, sales volume still cannot be reduced, and even the inventory is almost cleared out. After the out-of-stock situation, the ranking has also plummeted.

▲ Image source: seller communication group

After the out-of-stock situation, Amazon should have actively restocked the products. However, Amazon has started to limit the maximum inventory capacity of sellers since last Saturday. It can be said that according to the current situation, Amazon will not be able to lift the inventory capacity restrictions in the short term.

So will Amazon restore its pre-pandemic unlimited storage capacity in the future?

In this regard, some sellers began to speculate↓↓↓

▲ Screenshot from blogger @amz成都小米

The seller said: Amazon had already formulated rules in 2019, wanting sellers to provide high-quality products . However, the 2020 epidemic happened and the storage capacity was in short supply. Amazon could only provide priority storage capacity for high-turnover products. This storage capacity is basically the storage capacity for more than one month's sales.

In addition, Amazon has previously stated that the warehouse limit inventory performance indicators will be updated in mid-December. Although Amazon stated in the announcement that it would leave more space for as many sellers' products as possible, seeing the current inventory capacity inevitably makes sellers more worried.

▲ Screenshot from Amazon announcement

"What plans and changes does Amazon have regarding its future inventory capacity policies? Will it restore its pre-pandemic unlimited inventory capacity?" This has become the issue that sellers are most concerned about.

As a cross-border e-commerce industry media, AMZ 123 attended the "Future, Prepared - 2020 Amazon Global Store Cross-border Summit" held on December 14 with the above questions.

▲ 2020 Amazon Global Selling Online Cross-border Summit Media Communication Meeting

It can be seen that "product power" and "brand power" are still the key points that sellers need to pay attention to in future operations on Amazon.

At the same time, sellers are also very concerned about the current logistics, storage capacity and other issues. Therefore, in the interview session of the meeting, we asked questions about the inventory issues that sellers are concerned about, hoping to get Amazon's policy disclosure on inventory capacity.

I would like to summarize the key points of the above answers here:

1. This year's cross-border e-commerce has both challenges and opportunities. Sellers first need to correctly recognize the challenges and opportunities and build confidence.

2. Amazon is also using inventory indexes and indicators to improve the health of sellers' inventory, and has proposed a variety of different warehousing methods in combination with more overseas warehouses.

3. Sellers need to maintain and improve the health of inventory, for example, by optimizing product selection strategies.

Although the person in charge did not disclose when the storage capacity restrictions would be lifted, such an answer can give sellers a deeper understanding of storage capacity, so that they can better deal with inventory restrictions and better maintain inventory health.

At this summit, we also learned that during the epidemic, Amazon has made active investments and efforts in warehouse capacity, operational capabilities and efficiency, inventory health, logistics operations and warehousing to help sellers actively prepare for challenges.

In fact, from a series of measures such as adding operation centers, hiring employees, and logistics solutions, we can see that Amazon has made a lot of efforts in logistics and warehousing operations this year, which has also alleviated the logistics and inventory operation difficulties of sellers during the epidemic.

At the same time, we hope that sellers can respond quickly, make adjustments in flexible production chains and rapid replenishment, and work with Amazon to help overseas consumers purchase the products they need and urgently need more quickly.

Finally, let's do a small survey. What specific measures have sellers taken to maintain the health of storage capacity? Feel free to leave a message in the comment area~

From December 18th to 19th, we will participate in the 2020 China (Yiwu) 7th Cross-border E-commerce Export Summit Forum and Cross-border E-commerce Export Supply Chain Product Selection Matchmaking Meeting.

This conference will break through the ecological barriers of cross-border e-commerce platforms, cross-border source factories, sellers and service providers, and enable "good sources" to find "good sellers", "good sellers" to find "good platforms", "good platforms" to find "good factories", and "service providers" to find "good sellers".

Here comes the point. I hope all sellers will be aware of the following information:

Time: 2020-12-18 09:00 to 2020-12-19 17:00

Location: Exhibition Hall, 3rd Floor, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Yiwu, Jinhua, Zhejiang

Organizer: WinShare

Booth No.: E2-133

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