Have you ever had inventory at a warehouse for a high-selling SKU with no stock available to buy at FBA?

If your business utilizes Amazon Warehousing and Distribution (AWD), you must have a separate replenishment software that tells you how much product needs to go into fulfillment—for Amazon and Multi-Channel Fulfillment.

AWD has certain benefits, but its auto-replenishment system isn’t fault-proof.

The demand forecasting used by AWD isn’t as accurate if you have a product with fluctuating consumer demand. Inconsistent demand can easily lead to stockout or overstock situations—leaving you with too much FBA inventory (with higher fees) or with insufficient inventory (losing sales and frustrating customers).

For a lot of FBA sellers, AWD is not a complete solution on its own. Sellers often need to manually intervene during high-demand periods or for specific ASINs. If your business offers a highly seasonal product (think cashmere in the colder months), it might become your burden to convince Amazon to accept more inventory than they “recommend ordering.” Without the right factual data, you might learn an expensive lesson.

Take 8-figure Amazon seller Fishers Finery, for example. One of their top-selling SKUs is men’s cashmere hats. Amazon’s restocking recommendation for Q4? Ship 80 units of inventory into AWD by September 15th. Fishers Finery knew that was woefully inaccurate. Because they had hard data from Inventory Optimizer showing how many units they were actually going to sell, Fishers Finery was able to order 3,000 units. Unfortunately, Amazon still only accepted 1,200 units, and Fishers Finery went out of stock.

Doesn’t having to manually intervene during high periods of demand negate the reason for auto-replenishment? Don’t risk your profits waiting for Amazon’s algorithm to reconcile your restocking. Your unique selling season deserves demand forecasting with industry-leading seasonality recognition.

Plus, AWD is not designed for multi-channel fulfillment.

If you’re a seller on multiple platforms (Shopify, Walmart, etc.) using Amazon MCF, you might have noticed that your inventory forecasts don’t seem reliable. That’s because AWD’s current replenishment algorithm does NOT include MCF demand.

One frustrated Amazon seller on the Seller Central forum went so far as saying, “auto-replenishment from AWD is a scam,” and that after they started relying on the auto-replenishment model from Amazon, it “turn[ed] out to be the worst decision of our life.”

If your products are sitting on a pallet in AWD, they aren’t doing you any good.

That’s why your Amazon business needs RestockAMZ.

RestockAMZ is demand planning software that takes your Amazon data (MCF, FBA, and FBM) and creates custom demand forecasts that capture 100% of all available inventory.

Replenishment recommendations from RestockAMZ account for all inventory sources, including:

1. AWD
2. Inbound to AWD
3. Multi-Channel Fulfillment

It’s time to streamline your fulfillment and restocking—learn more about the benefits of RestockAMZ.

The bottom line? You need more accurate replenishment recommendations than Amazon can provide.

If your product is sitting in an Amazon warehouse, it’s not doing you (or your customers) any good. RestockAMZ is specifically designed to take your warehouse quantities and forecast what you should be sending into Amazon FBA (and when).

Let’s talk about the restocking and demand forecasting you need to supplement Amazon’s auto-replenishment recommendations—schedule a demo today.