FBA inventory

A legacy shipment creation workflow

Use the tools in your seller account to list products, create shipping plans, send in shipments, track and monitor your shipments, and remove inventory from Amazon fulfillment centers.

Manage FBA inventory

• How to Manage your FBA Inventory Online: Manage your inventory using the tools on the Manage Inventory page.
• Add One Product at a Time: List individual products with the Add a Product tool.
• List Products for Fulfillment by Amazon: After you create a new listing for a product, specify it as FBA inventory by changing the Fulfilled by value from "Merchant" to "Amazon".
• List FBA Products in Bulk: Upload a tab-delimited .txt file to list all of your products at the same time.
• Resolve Stranded Inventory: Resolve issues related to your stranded inventory.
• Fix a "No Listing" Error: View troubleshooting tips for the most common listing errors related to FBA listings.
• Manage Inventory Health: Use the Manage Inventory Health tool to help you maintain 30 to 60 days of on-hand inventory in relation to your sales and to avoid excess inventory.

Send inventory to Amazon

Options for creating shipments include the following:

• Send to Amazon: A streamlined shipment creation workflow with simplified steps that saves you time when replenishing inventory. You can create your shipments either by adding products from the Send to Amazon page or by uploading the list of products using an Excel spreadsheet.
• Send/replenish inventory to Amazon: A legacy shipment creation workflow that should be used if you want to use Amazon Global Logistics to ship inventory from China.
• Amazon Marketplace Web Service or Selling Partner API: For medium to large shipments. You can integrate your own inventory systems using Amazon APIs.
• Send to Amazon (beta): For shipments packed in single-SKU cartons. This workflow allows you to create reusable packing templates to save box content information and prep/labeling selections for your SKUs, saving you time on each replenishment.
• Label FBA inventory: Avoid delays, unplanned service fees, and penalties by adhering to Amazon's labeling requirements.
• Seller University: For a quick introduction to the shipment creation process, watch the Seller University video series beginning with What is FBA?.

Track and reconcile shipments

• Track your shipment: Track your shipments to Amazon and the status of each shipment in the Shipping Queue.
• Reconcile your shipment: Identify and resolve any discrepancies between what is listed in your shipping plan and what is received at the fulfillment center.
• Troubleshoot receiving issues: Get troubleshooting tips for the most common receiving errors related to FBA shipments.

Remove inventory from an Amazon fulfillment center

• Remove inventory (overview): Request to have inventory that you have stored in Amazon's fulfillment centers returned to you or disposed of.
• Remove inventory from fulfillment centers: Create a removal order for any amount of inventory at any time using the tools in your seller account.
• Remove inventory in bulk: Remove inventory in bulk by uploading a tab-delimited .txt file.
• Remove inventory automatically: Have your unfulfillable inventory or inventory that is subject to a long-term storage fee automatically removed from Amazon fulfillment centers and either returned to you or disposed of.

Manage Multi-Channel Fulfillment inventory

• Fill orders for other sales channels (Multi-Channel Fulfillment): Use Amazon to fill orders from your other sales channels.
• Submit or cancel a Multi-Channel Fulfillment order: Submit Multi-Channel Fulfillment orders by creating orders individually, or by using bulk flat file upload, or by using the Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) API.

• Manage FBA orders: Review the status of FBA orders for products sold on Amazon and through multi-channel fulfillment on the Manage Orders page.

The Pan-European FBA program allows you to fulfil offers in all European marketplaces from one inventory pool without incurring per-unit cross-border fulfilment fees for the European Fulfilment Network. Amazon will distribute your inventory across the European Fulfilment Network at no additional cost. You can track your Pan-European FBA offers using all standard reports and tools in Seller Central.

Pan-European FBA will become active for a product only after you create an active FBA offer in all the Amazon European marketplaces listed as required on the Pan-European FBA Inventory page in your Selling on Amazon account.