Amazon secretly cuts storage capacity! A large number of sellers have their storage capacity caps cut in half

This time, it is not the limit on the number of shipments that has been lowered, but the upper limit on storage capacity. In the past, Amazon has always reduced storage capacity pressure by limiting the number of shipments of sellers during peak seasons. The storage capacity policy only raised the IPI red line. This is the first time that the upper limit of storage capacity has been directly adjusted when the seller's IPI remains unchanged.

The storage capacity limit is generally the upper limit of available inventory determined by Amazon based on your product turnover rate and sales. If the inventory exceeds the limit, an overage fee will be incurred. Under normal circumstances, this calculation should be done by capturing the IPI score at the end of the quarter, and then setting the storage capacity limit for the next quarter for the seller. In the middle of this month, a seller suffered a great loss in overage fees because he did not calculate the adjustment of the storage capacity limit after the peak season. Now the storage capacity has been cut by more than half, which not only disrupted the seller's peak season delivery plan, but also made some sellers face the problem of overage fees.

Just when the sellers were complaining and denouncing Amazon for secretly changing the inventory capacity, the official issued a notification in the background.

The general meaning is that the peak season is coming, and Amazon will start to control inventory capacity again to ensure that all sellers have at least four months of inventory capacity. Sellers with very high inventory capacity will have their available inventory capacity limit reduced. According to officials, 5% of sellers will no longer be able to restock after the update. This announcement already has the feeling of Amazon forcing shipments to be restricted by ASIN at the beginning of the epidemic. Has Amazon's FBA warehouse reached such a critical time?

I went online to look for information about Amazon warehouses, and found that the official was closing warehouses and restricting sellers from shipping.

Recently, Amazon has announced plans to close various warehouses and distribution stations one after another. In the Boston area alone, it plans to close five warehouses, with an average area of ​​more than 20,000 square meters.

Now it has been revealed that the warehouse is in the closure plan, but no further information has been disclosed on when it will be completely closed. However, I guess Amazon has already implemented the requirement of only outgoing and not incoming for some warehouses in the plan. After all the goods in these warehouses are shipped out or transferred to other warehouses, the warehouses planned to be closed will be closed. So this is also the reason why the online storage capacity of sellers has been cut in half in the past two days. The warehouses planned to be closed will definitely not be able to enter the warehouse again. Other warehouses are also under pressure to divert the goods of the closed warehouses, so the available storage space of sellers has naturally been reduced again and again.