Inventory Management

The Number That Controls Your FBA Access Your IPI score is Amazon's judgment of how well you manage their warehouse space. Let it drop below the threshold and your storage limits shrink, your fees climb, and your in-stock rates take the hit, cascading into ranking drops that are hard to reverse. The Inventory Performance Index (IPI) is a 0-1000 score Amazon assigns to every FBA seller. It reflects how efficiently you use FBA storage relative to your sales velocity. You can fi

Why Growing Amazon Sales Can Destroy Your Business Your Amazon sales hit $150,000 last month, up 40% from six months ago. You should be celebrating. Instead, you're checking your bank account with a knot in your stomach. You have $8,000 in the bank. Amazon owes you $32,000 that won't arrive for another week. Your supplier needs $45,000 for inventory by Friday. Welcome to the Amazon cash flow challenge: You pay for inventory weeks or months before Amazon pays you for the sale.