5,000 shipments cancelled! Inventory capacity reduced to 30 days! Amazon policy changes dramatically!

The peak season has not yet ended, but a large number of sellers are facing inventory shortages.

In the past two days, a large number of sellers found that the number of items available for shipment in Amazon's inventory plummeted overnight. Even though sales increased, inventory capacity continued to decrease, and some were directly reduced by half.

Small sellers are even worse off, as their prices drop directly to 0 and they have no goods to ship .

According to sellers, Amazon now basically only gives sellers a limit of a little more than one month , and the entire warehouse limit has been reduced from the original three months of salable inventory to one month . Some sellers with smaller quantities that can be shipped have even had their inventory cleared to zero.

The quota given previously was for two or three months, which was compressed to two months half a month ago, and now it has become one month. The inventory capacity has dropped too drastically, and many sellers have expressed that they are on the verge of running out of stock.

Due to the sudden reduction in Amazon's storage capacity, many sellers replenished their stocks based on the original storage capacity. As a result, the number of inventory available for shipment decreased, and they were judged to have exceeded the shipment quantity. Ultimately , the goods were forcibly cancelled during the transportation process .

One seller said:

Another Amazon seller said:

In addition, many sellers have received notifications from Amazon to cancel shipments :

From the email content, we can also see that the reason why Amazon canceled the shipment is that the seller created too many shipments with ASIN . So after the shipment is canceled, will Amazon still accept it?

Sellers have different opinions on this issue . Some sellers said that as long as the goods are shipped, Amazon will still receive them normally, but it will be a little slow to receive them, and this depends on luck; some sellers have already created the shipment and the shipment is on the way, and they will still receive it normally after it was cancelled by Amazon, but now the Amazon warehouse refuses to accept it.

Some freight forwarders also sent messages to WeChat Moments to remind sellers not to create multiple shipments repeatedly:

Amazon clearly stated in the email that it would not accept cancelled shipments . Sellers whose shipments were cancelled and then accepted by Amazon normally may have been really lucky . Therefore, sellers must be cautious in replenishing stocks during this period, and do not ship shipments at the warehouse limit, otherwise it will be troublesome if the shipments are cancelled.

Regarding the sudden reduction of inventory and cancellation of shipments, some sellers speculated that the brother-in-law's thinking was:

As for the sudden drop in inventory capacity, a seller asked a business manager , who replied that the Amazon system was being adjusted and that the volume would increase in two to three weeks. Another business manager also said that the replenishment was temporary and would gradually recover.

Some sellers also opened cases to consult customer service, who said it might be affected by the " Amazon Logistics Sales Date " policy and that they would have to wait until December 17 to observe the situation.

In addition, according to industry insiders, this situation may only be short-lived, because the current focus is on processing Christmas shipments delivered to Amazon warehouses before December 1. Only after Christmas will the restrictions on receiving goods be lifted . Otherwise, the large amount of inventory piled up in the warehouse will not be able to be operated at all.

In fact, as the maximum inventory capacity has become smaller and smaller during this period, and Amazon has frequently canceled shipments, sellers have been forced to fall into the vicious circle and vicious cycle of "reduced inventory capacity - product price increase - decreased sales after price increase - less inventory capacity - product price increase" .

On the Amazon warehouse side, several warehouses including ONT8 continue to be overwhelmed . It is reported that the red invoice signed on November 20 is still not on the shelves, and some Chinese sellers’ goods have even been abandoned in the warehouse .

A few days ago, a seller used two pictures to vividly describe the current difficult situation of warehousing goods.

In addition, California has implemented a stay-at-home order that will last for at least three weeks. Once it takes effect, logistics efficiency may be even slower in the next three weeks . It is reported that there are more than 20 FBA warehouses in California, including ONT2, ONT6, ONT8, etc.

According to the editor, many sellers are now out of stock . If the current situation continues, more and more sellers will face the risk of out of stock in the future.

The next ten days or so will be the peak period of Amazon's Christmas shopping season, with considerable traffic and inventory will become a powerful tool for explosive sales.

But for many sellers, the current situation is that no matter how delicious the Christmas meat is, they can only shed tears because there is no stock.

Faced with the current out-of-stock situation, many sellers have expressed their helplessness and said that they can only raise prices and reduce advertising spending .

Amazon announced in the middle of last month that it would issue new guidance on IPI warehouse restrictions in mid-December.

Now, whether it is lowering the available limit or canceling the delivery plan, it indicates that Amazon's warehouse policy may continue to tighten , so sellers should be prepared.

(Source: Cross-border Live)