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Managing inventory

Running out of stock on a product you're actively advertising means paying for clicks that can't convert, and Amazon's fee-risk penalties kick in long before a listing actually goes out of stock. Inventory gives you a stock-health view across your whole catalog so restocking decisions happen before either problem hits, not after.

Before you start​

The concept: days of cover​

Every product's "days of stock" estimates how long current inventory lasts at its recent sales velocity. It's the single number that turns "how many units do I have" into "when do I need to reorder", and it's what drives the stock-status badges you see throughout the table: Healthy, Low, Fee risk, Out of stock, FBM only, Overstock, and No sales.

FBM only means Amazon's warehouses have no stock for the product, but you are still selling it from your own stock (merchant fulfilled). The listing is live, so it is not treated as out of stock.

Days of stock is calculated from your product's own sales velocity settings, so it can differ from a generic estimate. That's expected, not a data error.

The metrics strip​

Above the table, summary cards total your catalog: total ASINs, how many are out of stock or within fee-risk range, at-risk stock value, total available and inbound units, and (for sellers) storage cost and average margin. Vendor accounts see a vendor-specific set (on-hand value, open PO units, and received totals) since vendor inventory doesn't carry the same FBA fee-risk mechanics. Use the visibility button to choose which cards show.

The table​

Search or filter by stock status, ASIN, or performance metrics to narrow the list. Bulk-select rows to apply an action across many products at once.

Each row is one product (ASIN). If you sell the same product through FBA and also ship it yourself under a different SKU, both SKUs roll up into that one row: FBA stock and FBM stock sit side by side, and clicking "N products" lists every SKU with its own numbers. Reorder suggestions are about restocking Amazon's warehouses, so they only appear for products that have an FBA listing.

Deep links from Recommendations

Cards in the Recommendations Hub (like "Out-of-stock still advertising") link directly into Inventory with the relevant products pre-filtered, so you land on exactly the ASINs that triggered the alert.

Product Settings​

Click a product's settings icon to open Product Settings: lead times, reorder buffers, seasonality adjustments, and (for planning ahead) shipping and purchase-order defaults like supplier, MOQ, and unit cost. These settings feed directly into the days-of-stock and reorder calculations, so keeping them current keeps the whole page accurate. Check Apply to all to push a setting across your entire catalog at once instead of one product at a time.

Purchase Orders​

Switch to the Purchase Orders tab to track inbound stock. Create a PO with a supplier, expected date, and line items pulled straight from your inventory, then update its status as it ships and arrives. This is where "inbound" quantities on the main table come from. Keeping POs current keeps your days-of-stock projections realistic.

Setting COGS​

Select one or more products and choose Set COGS from the bulk actions menu to apply a cost-per-unit. COGS you set here flows straight into Profit & Loss: it's the same underlying record, so you only need to enter it once.

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