Products in stock soon? Make them available now
Fulfillment by Amazon’s In-Stock Head Start feature – until recently a pilot program for a limited number of sellers – is now available for all eligible sellers. With In-Stock Head Start, FBA will automatically make your temporarily out-of-stock products available for customers to find and buy when your shipment is on its way and we are confident about its arrival date. Beginning on October 10, 2019, customers will start benefiting from a wider selection of products, and you could see increased traffic to your product detail pages, higher or more consistent sales, and better inventory productivity. Visit the program page to get all of the details and see if your products qualify.
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I see some good in this …
Question - Could we hope for not seeing shipments sit on the docks waiting for them to be received??
Answer - Maybe if every seller includes just 1 fast selling item Amazon will check in the shipments faster than they currently do!
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Shipments delivered (checked-in) to FC are currently sitting over a week to be received.
How is that gonna be improving with this “advance available” program?
I would advise you work on perfecting the Inbound-Recieving processes for Efficiency & Accuracy, before making this wonderful leep.
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Our Shipment delivery appointment was set for October 1st, but was changed to October 11 on October 1. bump bump bump. Don’t know how this " Products in stock soon? Make them available now " is going to work with how delivery appointment keep changing.
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Curious how this is related to this restocking program or is this about something else?
How will this result in a wider selection of products and increased traffic/sales/productivity?
How might it impact metrics?
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I’m not sure if there is any fees we have to pay for this program?
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Like everyone else said, fix the receiving/stocking situation before you bother putting this in place. I have 3 small shipments that were received upwards of 3 weeks ago and because I pay for Inventory Placement they have been on a roadtrip ever since and I have no sales to finance more inventory.
So receive things, ship things to customer not other warehouses, don’t charge me for inventory placement and then make items “reserved” for a month or 6 weeks. I don’t send enough (yesterday 6 skus, 17 items) to split them up into 17 shipments.
Sheesh.Amazon… do we have to explain everything to you?
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Not sure how this is going to be customer friendly. I understand that if there are no other sellers with instock items this would be a nice option. But I had the buy box taken by a FBA seller that was not going to have the stock in for over 10 days and I am setting with stock ready to ship FBM.
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Here’s a real time report of how well (NOT) this is working.
We have a month’s worth of stock for a fast-moving item DELIVERED to SMF3 and Amazon still is unable to predict for customers (or us) when this item will be in stock.
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We opted in. Hoping the receiving end keeps up. So far from my end it is looking promising
Seller_HkE22miV1JooH
Horrible Program - especially if you sell items routinely stolen in receiving - like snack foods, OTC meds, etc.
My customer waited 16 days (program started in September, regardless of what they are seaying) - and because the item he wanted is “missing” from our shipment, he never got it. (Amazon never reached out to the customer telling him what as happening.)
He cancelled the order and wrote me about how angry he was.
I wrote to seller support to get off this program. They told me to teach the customer how to cancel the order - and how to close a listing. SHEESH!
I finally found out how to PAUSE my listings from this mess.
