AMZ Seller News #20: Why Amazon slashes 3P inventory limits, 10 Top inventory Management tools and more

AMZ Seller news, tools & tips

Nov 3, 2022

Summary:

Amazon slashes 3P inventory limits
Amazon Q3 results
Interesting reads
Amazon Pro Tip: find new products and why they’re performing great on AMZ
10 Top inventory Management tools

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✅Amazon slashes 3P inventory limits

For more than a week, Amazon has been slashing 3rd party sellers' inventory limits. Some Sellers have seen their inventory limits cut off by almost 80% I have my own theory but Molson Hart, which is way smarter than me, has another one: Amazon has insufficient labor for Q4

Molson @Molson_Hart

Amazon may have overbuilt but underhired for this holiday. That's what the data is saying. We have limits on how many units we can send in by number, but not by the space they take up. Seems like they have insufficient labor for the throughput, not insufficient storage.

✅Amazon Q3 results

Amazon posted Q3 results last week. Some highlights:

Amazon Ads revenue is nuts: $9.5B (+25% YoY)
Actually, Amazon Ad Business Growing Faster Than Google, Facebook, according to Marketplacepulse.
AWS profits are insane: $5.4B (+27% YoY)
Also, Amazon without AWS looks pretty bad

Mokaya @ekmokaya

$AMZN ex-AWS:

Operating income: -$2.5B YoY
North America sales: +20 YoY
Non-US sales: -5% YoY
Net income: -$2.9B
Operating cash flow: -27% YoY
As you may imagine, Amazon stocks are down.

👀Interesting reads

👉 US Amazon shoppers will be able to pay using Venmo by Black Friday

👉 Amazon vs. Walmart: The Growth & Future of Ecommerce, free report by Jungle Scout

👉 AMZ Innovate summit will feature keynotes by Carbon6, Thrasio, GETIDA, Unybrands and more

👉 Amazon Ads dives deeper into insights-driven advertising

👉 Amazon Live A-Lister Influencers: Who Are They And Where to Find Them

👉 New feature shows details about a sellers history on the Seller’s profile

🤓 Amazon Pro Tip

Alex at Honest Entrepreneurs brings you boys an interesting hack for product research using Helium 10: find new products and understand why they’re performing great on Amazon.

Imagen — This is Alex, the hack is below

You can find Alex’s Twitter thread here (find a H10 discount in the last tweet).

Go to Helium 10’s Black Box
Apply pricing, category, fulfillment… filters
Apply the “listing age (months)” filter: from 1 to 6
Find the winning products. This is the ones with the better sales / revenue / reviews / sales to review scoring
Reverse engineer the data asking questions like:
1. What price did they launch at?
2. What USP did they have?
3. How have they made their listings?
4. Do they have other products?
5. What's the niche look like?
Apply the learnings to your products / niche

On this newsletter’s last edition I told you this guys knew their stuff and I’m sticking to it.

So I strongly recommend their FBA course (they gave me an extra 10% discount for you guys, so check it out).

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🧐 10 Top inventory Management tools

This week’s all about Amazon Seller inventory tools:

InFlow Inventory: All in one inventory management.
Starting at $79/month
SoStocked: Powerful inventory forecasting & tracking tool.
Starting at $79/month
Fіnаlе Inventory: Inventory, order management for Amazon & Ecommerce.
Starting at $75/month
Skubana: POS, eCommerce, Marketplace, Wholesale advanced inventory sync tool.
Starting at $1,000/month
SKU IQ: POS, eCommerce and marketplace inventory sync tool.
Starting at $35/month
Inventory source: inventory management for dropshipping.
Starting at $99/month
SKUVault: advanced inventory management with +60 integrations.
Starting at $329/month
Sellbrite: product lister, inventory sync and order management.
Starting at $29/month
Sortly: inventory management for small business.
Starting at $29/month
Ordoro: All in one inventory management with +40 integrations.
Starting at $59/month

See you in 15 days!

Best,
Jordi Ordóñez at jordiob.com

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