Throughout this blog post you may see specific case IDs or other situational specific information. This post is being sent to the Amazon team in order to try to promote fixes to the Amazon issues. I wanted to post the entire content as a blog post as well as I am sure there are many […]
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The decision of whether or not to sell your brand on Amazon in the first place is one that many companies deal with. The decision comes down to two main questions: Is it beneficial to my brand? Can I make money? Is it beneficial to my brand? The health of a brand is a long
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Terapeak is an ebay-owned company that provides market sales data that can help sellers identify new sourcing opportunities. Terapeak used to be an independent company until eBay acquired it in December 2017. You can now access Terapeak if you area an anchor store subscriber via the “Research” tab in eBay Seller Hub. Whether you sell
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To continue the discussion on Keeping your 3PL in check, Amazon FBA is a 3PL that warrants special treatment. Operationally, the real-time inventory figures are available via the “GET_FBA_MYI_UNSUPPRESSED_INVENTORY_DATA” report, accessible via the Reporting API. We have not found any inventory report accessible via Seller Central that offers the same level of real-time detailed data,
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A 3PL (Third Party Logistics) service is a 3rd party warehouse that stores, ships, and receives goods on your behalf. If you use a 3PL in an e-commerce environment, you’ve probably faced challenges in auditing the inventory levels of the 3PL. There are two needs for 3PL inventory levels that are needed: Operational needs Accounting
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You may have read our previous blog post titled “A Breakdown of Amazon Fees“ One of the “Adjustment” financial events we listed was “ReturnPostageBilling_postage”. This was a shipping fee to compensate the buyer for shipping items back when seller was at fault. It would be very useful to know which Amazon Order this charge belongs
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Reports generated by Amazon on Seller Central or via the Reporting API have some challenges. This blog post is geared towards the more technical reader who is familiar with the Amazon reporting structure. For those users who are not, simply know that reporting from Amazon is not as robust as you would expect from a
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Selling on Amazon is tough. Many sellers operate losing money and don’t even know it. The main reason for this on Amazon is: Amazon is a price-driven marketplace that strongly encourages lower prices by sellers Amazon charges a lot of fees and many sellers don’t have the awareness/sophistication to calculate their profit after these fees.
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Inventory forecasting attempts to predict demand for your products such that you can make the best purchasing decisions to maximize cash-flow and minimize lost sales from stock outs. There is no perfect forecasting model. Stock outs will occur as demand is not 100% predictable. A great example of this is during COVID this year. Many
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In the fourth part of this series, I am looking at a quick comparison of Airtable vs. Google Sheets for building a product data model
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