IPI Score & recommended replenishment quantity
Hello,
Does anyone know if amazon takes into consideration that the amount of stock they believe you should send to the FC is counted into the “in stock” category on the IPI score? we have an in-stock rating of 89% and we only have around 9 lines out of stock, we currently sell 415 lines… to my calculation that makes us 2% out of stock.
we currently try to keep around 30-40 days of stock in the FC at any one time to mitigate the storage fees incurred, but our IPI score is slowly creeping down over the past 3 months.
The amount of items amazon tells us to send is quite a lot and that will just incur more fees in storage than anything.
Does anyone have any input/experience?
IPI Score & recommended replenishment quantity
Hello,
Does anyone know if amazon takes into consideration that the amount of stock they believe you should send to the FC is counted into the “in stock” category on the IPI score? we have an in-stock rating of 89% and we only have around 9 lines out of stock, we currently sell 415 lines… to my calculation that makes us 2% out of stock.
we currently try to keep around 30-40 days of stock in the FC at any one time to mitigate the storage fees incurred, but our IPI score is slowly creeping down over the past 3 months.
The amount of items amazon tells us to send is quite a lot and that will just incur more fees in storage than anything.
Does anyone have any input/experience?
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Seller_7VbclcPFFRTnc
Whats your sell through ? Has this been dropping ?
Inventory Performance Index (IPI):
Your Inventory Performance Index is based on how well you keep popular products in stock, maintain healthy inventory levels and fix listing problems.
FBA % In Stock
Percentage of time that your FBA products have been in stock over the last 30 days (weighted on sales from the past 60 days).
FBA in-stock rate
Keeping popular, replenishable products in stock helps maximize your sales. You can track your performance in this category using FBA in-stock rate, which is the percent of time your replenishable FBA ASINs have been in stock during the last 30 days, weighted by the number of units sold for each SKU in the last 60 days.
You can indicate that a SKU is non-replenishable at Restock Inventory by clicking View details in the Action column and selecting Hide recommendation . Hiding all SKUs associated with an ASIN will exclude the ASIN from your FBA in-stock rate and estimated FBA lost sales.
Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
Though being in stock is important as @The_Little_Shop says, it’s mostly based upon sell through. ie. How quickly your moving your stock through the system.
So if you have any items that are slow sellers and are overstocked, this will cause the score to drop.
Seller_BS5lg2keRs2QO
The in-stock rate doesn’t feed into IPI at all, so whether they count or not doesn’t matter.
Of course you want your products to be stocked, especially if they are good sellers, but the metric itself doesn’t feed into IPI score. Having products out of stock can of course impact sell-through, but don’t worry about the number itself.
Seller_02U4twsVIW95V
I’m having exactly the same issue. Still a good IPI score of 665 but its slowly dropping every week. I’ve had a massive clear out of my really slow sellers and don’t sell them anymore, so I thought that would make a big difference by improving my sell through but it hasn’t shown in the IPI. Also trying to keep about 40 days of stock in the FC. amazon always wants more but I’m not comfortable sending in too much stock, I just drip feed it in every week. My in stock % rate hasn’t updated for weeks.
Not sure how to halt the IPI decline.
