Since Amazon began to limit the storage capacity, sellers have frequently been restricted in stocking. In the past two months, the curse has become tighter and tighter. After the platform once again reduced its storage capacity this week, the storage capacity of many sellers has been soaring. They have been unable to stock up for the Spring Festival and the next sales.

At the same time, many sellers' applications for capacity expansion were rejected. There was an uproar in the industry when news broke out yesterday that Amazon would start paying to purchase storage capacity around January 10. According to further news, Amazon will also revise its storage restrictions, changing from limiting the number of storages to limiting the volume of storage. If the news is true, there will be huge changes in the storage area.

Amazon warehouse adjustment?Inventory capacity or open payment mode

Recently, some sellers heard that Amazon will open the paid purchase of storage capacity after the 10th, so they consulted an investment manager about this matter, and got a reply soon – " announced on the 10th, and the implementation will be March 1st ".

As soon as the news came out, the sellers were astonished and asked the investment manager around them for confirmation. One seller said that he had asked several managers and was basically sure. A manager confirmed this and said that there will be an inventory bidding tool later.

The cross-border blogger "Amazon Melon Forest" said that he has confirmed with many managers that the new policy on storage capacity will start around March this year. At that time, Amazon will open the purchase of storage capacity services. The official announcement time is January 10. The specific purchase method is uncertain. It should be possible to operate directly, using a model similar to advertising bidding.

At present, a framework can be seen in the background, as shown in the picture below. The picture shows the requested capacity (cubic feet), reserved fees, etc., and the seller guesses that it is for bidding.

In addition, the original expansion service may be cancelled, or the review may be more stringent; IPI will be changed to a monthly assessment, and the regular Amazon inventory can basically only be kept for 3 months, but it can be expanded. The seller sighed: "Amazon's scythe is getting faster and faster."

Since the beginning of this year, Amazon has continued to reduce the warehouse area and staff. It is conceivable that there is a lot of pressure on storage. Therefore, the platform has been tightening the storage capacity. However, due to the continuous decrease in shipments, many sellers have complained. After all, during the epidemic Before, no one thought that even "free shipping" would become a luxury. Next, if Amazon releases the storage capacity in the form of payment, there will inevitably be resistance among the seller group.

Regarding this change, the investment manager explained that, unlike sellers’ worries, this new policy gave sellers many opportunities. After the policy is officially announced on January 10, there will be an official comprehensive interpretation.

A manager revealed: "The new policy will combine the seller's IPI, account health (whether there are violations, new products and many other factors), and this policy is only for the part that the seller exceeds, and the policy for the part that is not exceeded is the same as before. "A seller also said that after learning of this point of view, the new policy will be particularly friendly to new accounts, but old accounts will have to rely on their own abilities.

With regard to the New Deal, there are currently several PPT content leaked out. Information shows that after the policy change on March 1, only storage restrictions will be carried out. Factors to be considered include historical estimated sales, storage capacity and IPI scores. Only volume is measured. The calculation method is inventory in transit + inventory in storage, which is updated every month ; Exceeding the limit will incur an overage storage fee and stop creating shipments.

Source /Amazon melon farmers forest

The big V in the industry "Yunfeiyang AMZ" also sorted out the change information, pointing out that the new policy will cancel the limit on the number of warehousing and consolidate it into a limit on storage volume; the original storage volume was only limited to the inventory in the warehouse, and now if the estimated volume of the shipment exceeds the standard, it will also Will be restricted to build shipments, but the original quantity limit will no longer be. In addition, the expansion of storage capacity still continues the previous policy and adopts a bidding strategy. He said, "According to experience, the fight will be very tragic." At the same time, the informed seller said that the release of the new policy on January 10 has been confirmed, and the accuracy of the PPT content is relatively high, but other content is mostly guesswork, and the information is relatively vague. Everything is waiting for the official announcement .

Amazon's new adjustments may ease sellers' storage capacity problems. The reduction of storage capacity has been accompanied by Amazon sellers throughout 2022. At the beginning of January 2023, Amazon has cut storage capacity again. Many colleagues called it a critical blow at the beginning of the year.

Many sellers urgently expanded capacity to no avail, and began to try overseas warehouses and AWD

Some sellers’ storage capacity has changed from more than 9,000 to 2,000, and normal FBA cannot create shipments, and delivery is restricted; there are also sellers whose storage capacity has shrunk from 25,000 to more than 3,000, and they cannot deliver at all; there are also sellers who have new stores The storage capacity of the company was suddenly cut from 5,000 to less than 2,000, and some sellers were unable to deliver goods due to limited storage capacity, resulting in 80% of SKUs being out of stock …

More sellers were hit by the reduction of storage capacity, and they had no choice but to ask: "When will Amazon release the storage capacity limit?"

When the storage capacity is limited and cannot be shipped, many sellers urgently seek ways to expand the storage capacity, but it seems to have little effect.

A seller said: "I opened a case and wrote several paragraphs. I found several reasons for wanting to expand the storage capacity, but the result was rejected in seconds. Is it not enough to impress the customer service? "

According to experienced people, the storage capacity is not enough to open a case or solve the problem, but it must be well-founded, detail how much storage capacity will be increased, be accurate to the data, and state the reasons from multiple aspects. Some sellers operate according to relevant methods, but it doesn't work. A seller wrote a request but was rejected; another seller made up a lot of reasons and failed to expand.

While the expansion was not successful, the delivery was limited, and the seller also encountered other delivery problems.

A seller’s inventory was cut while the goods were in transit. When he created the shipment, the replenishment limit was about 8,000. As a result, the goods were sent out and he was on vacation for nearly half a month. When he returned to the company, he found that the replenishment limit was updated and directly dropped to 1,000. , now the goods are in transit, but they have exceeded the replenishment limit, I don't know if they can be put into the warehouse normally.

There is also a peer FBA who created 500 pieces of goods, but only 250 pieces were shipped, and 250 pieces were missed. I am worried about whether FBA can receive it normally and whether it will affect the account. Answering questions from peers: It doesn’t matter if it happens once, but if it happens many times, there will be inventory performance problems, and if it is serious, shipments will be prohibited. According to a logistics person, Amazon requires CARRIER’s booking manifest to be more than 70% accurate before delivering the warehouse. If it finds 4 “random delivery” behaviors within 8 weeks, the CARRIER center account will be blocked directly.

If you are not careful, the seller will encounter various difficult situations when delivering the goods. Coupled with the limitation of storage capacity, many sellers have begun to try overseas warehouses and Amazon AWD in order to ensure stocking.

"The storage capacity has been cut again and again. Last week, there were only 6,000 and this week, only 2,000. Does anyone recommend a reliable and easy-to-use overseas warehouse?" A seller asked helplessly.

Many peers also encountered similar problems, and some of them lamented: "Amazon cut more than 1,000 storage capacity a week, and only gave nearly 10,000 replenishment quantities under the storage limit. Sending more than 1,000 items is too much, which is useless! The platform seems to be They are forcing us to use their AWD.” The person further introduced that in addition to AWD, overseas warehouses are used, but now many overseas warehouses have poor attitudes, are not responsible for lost goods, and will make various unreasonable demands.

Some old sellers bluntly said: " Amazon just wants sellers to use their AWD! But AWD is not perfect, you can only use Kapai for the last journey, and the courier will reject it. The shipment with AWD is assigned to a remote warehouse and cannot use Kapai , As a result, I couldn’t send it even if I wanted to ship it.”

Whether it is AWD or overseas warehouse, the seller will encounter pitfalls when delivering goods. In the new year, delivery is still a difficult problem. After the adjustment of Amazon's storage and storage capacity policy, it is not known whether it has improved.