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Stock in Perth warehouse. High shipping times for east coast customers

Hello,
All my stock is in Perth and I believe this affects sales as the shipping times to east coast customers is greater. Is this valid? Will Amazon transfer stock to a FC closer to customers?

Thanks

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Seller_NIXVGFFTTwtLA

Stock in Perth warehouse. High shipping times for east coast customers

Hello,
All my stock is in Perth and I believe this affects sales as the shipping times to east coast customers is greater. Is this valid? Will Amazon transfer stock to a FC closer to customers?

Thanks

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Seller_5u76s0dtuAoIR
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Hi North

Amazon do automatically relocate inventory throughout their FC to better serve customers and reduce delivery timeframes. Its partially manually, but mainly automated process managed by Amazon.

When you create inbound shipments, if it picks the Perth FC go back to your quantitiy and reduce the amount you’re sending. Once you finish creating the shipping plan, go ahead and then create another inbound order and it should pick an FC on the East Coast.

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Seller_2nDifgxOb5Zj9
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Amazon will automatically relocate your stock to other warehouses where they predict the customers will buy the products the most. Most of my stock are in Brisbane but sometimes they ship them to the warehouse in Perth and Sydney. When they do, you will see some of ASINs in your inventory will be in “transfer” status.

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Seller_TIdN9R4YKxM3R
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My 2 cents worth…

Amazon should, in theory, distribute stock evenly across fulfilment centres. Obviously, you want a decent amount in BWU2 and MEL1 as those two centres fulfil more than 50% of Australia’s population.
However, I have found the theory does not work in practice. Amazon in Australia does not seem to evenly populate stock at each fulfilment centre as it does in the USA.
By all means, check for yourself. You need to know where your stock is. And, as mentioned, if an ASIN sells a decent amount and there is no stock in BWU2 or MEL1 - you are going to lose sales if Amazon has to fulfil from PER3.
Check this reports:
Go to: Amazon Fulfillment Reports
Look up: Inventory Ledger
Aggregate report by location by “Fulfilment centre”.

So long as you have at least one unit of any decent-selling ASIN at MEL1 and BWU2 - you are fine. If you don’t you will be losing sales.

PS: You can’t transfer stock from one centre to another. That is simply not possible. You can request to send in new inventory to another centre though.

During 2021, BWU1 (the old Sydney default centre) was getting constantly closed due to health reasons locking down the centre. I switched a lot of my inbounds to BNE1 and MEL1.

PS: You can request via SeSu to change your default centre for inbound inventory in AU (at least this is correct unless Amazon has changed recently).

Hope this helps.

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Seller_FJ0yuWNUZEOIR
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Hi, just wondering if you had any success in having your stock relocated? I am in the same predicament with all stock in Perth.

Thanks

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Stock in Perth warehouse. High shipping times for east coast customers

Hello,
All my stock is in Perth and I believe this affects sales as the shipping times to east coast customers is greater. Is this valid? Will Amazon transfer stock to a FC closer to customers?

Thanks

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Stock in Perth warehouse. High shipping times for east coast customers

Hello,
All my stock is in Perth and I believe this affects sales as the shipping times to east coast customers is greater. Is this valid? Will Amazon transfer stock to a FC closer to customers?

Thanks

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Stock in Perth warehouse. High shipping times for east coast customers

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Hello,
All my stock is in Perth and I believe this affects sales as the shipping times to east coast customers is greater. Is this valid? Will Amazon transfer stock to a FC closer to customers?

Thanks

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Seller_5u76s0dtuAoIR
In reply to: Seller_NIXVGFFTTwtLA’s post

Hi North

Amazon do automatically relocate inventory throughout their FC to better serve customers and reduce delivery timeframes. Its partially manually, but mainly automated process managed by Amazon.

When you create inbound shipments, if it picks the Perth FC go back to your quantitiy and reduce the amount you’re sending. Once you finish creating the shipping plan, go ahead and then create another inbound order and it should pick an FC on the East Coast.

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Seller_2nDifgxOb5Zj9
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Amazon will automatically relocate your stock to other warehouses where they predict the customers will buy the products the most. Most of my stock are in Brisbane but sometimes they ship them to the warehouse in Perth and Sydney. When they do, you will see some of ASINs in your inventory will be in “transfer” status.

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Seller_TIdN9R4YKxM3R
In reply to: Seller_NIXVGFFTTwtLA’s post

My 2 cents worth…

Amazon should, in theory, distribute stock evenly across fulfilment centres. Obviously, you want a decent amount in BWU2 and MEL1 as those two centres fulfil more than 50% of Australia’s population.
However, I have found the theory does not work in practice. Amazon in Australia does not seem to evenly populate stock at each fulfilment centre as it does in the USA.
By all means, check for yourself. You need to know where your stock is. And, as mentioned, if an ASIN sells a decent amount and there is no stock in BWU2 or MEL1 - you are going to lose sales if Amazon has to fulfil from PER3.
Check this reports:
Go to: Amazon Fulfillment Reports
Look up: Inventory Ledger
Aggregate report by location by “Fulfilment centre”.

So long as you have at least one unit of any decent-selling ASIN at MEL1 and BWU2 - you are fine. If you don’t you will be losing sales.

PS: You can’t transfer stock from one centre to another. That is simply not possible. You can request to send in new inventory to another centre though.

During 2021, BWU1 (the old Sydney default centre) was getting constantly closed due to health reasons locking down the centre. I switched a lot of my inbounds to BNE1 and MEL1.

PS: You can request via SeSu to change your default centre for inbound inventory in AU (at least this is correct unless Amazon has changed recently).

Hope this helps.

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Seller_FJ0yuWNUZEOIR
In reply to: Seller_NIXVGFFTTwtLA’s post

Hi, just wondering if you had any success in having your stock relocated? I am in the same predicament with all stock in Perth.

Thanks

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Seller_5u76s0dtuAoIR
In reply to: Seller_NIXVGFFTTwtLA’s post

Hi North

Amazon do automatically relocate inventory throughout their FC to better serve customers and reduce delivery timeframes. Its partially manually, but mainly automated process managed by Amazon.

When you create inbound shipments, if it picks the Perth FC go back to your quantitiy and reduce the amount you’re sending. Once you finish creating the shipping plan, go ahead and then create another inbound order and it should pick an FC on the East Coast.

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Seller_5u76s0dtuAoIR
In reply to: Seller_NIXVGFFTTwtLA’s post

Hi North

Amazon do automatically relocate inventory throughout their FC to better serve customers and reduce delivery timeframes. Its partially manually, but mainly automated process managed by Amazon.

When you create inbound shipments, if it picks the Perth FC go back to your quantitiy and reduce the amount you’re sending. Once you finish creating the shipping plan, go ahead and then create another inbound order and it should pick an FC on the East Coast.

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Seller_2nDifgxOb5Zj9
In reply to: Seller_NIXVGFFTTwtLA’s post

Amazon will automatically relocate your stock to other warehouses where they predict the customers will buy the products the most. Most of my stock are in Brisbane but sometimes they ship them to the warehouse in Perth and Sydney. When they do, you will see some of ASINs in your inventory will be in “transfer” status.

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Seller_2nDifgxOb5Zj9
In reply to: Seller_NIXVGFFTTwtLA’s post

Amazon will automatically relocate your stock to other warehouses where they predict the customers will buy the products the most. Most of my stock are in Brisbane but sometimes they ship them to the warehouse in Perth and Sydney. When they do, you will see some of ASINs in your inventory will be in “transfer” status.

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Seller_TIdN9R4YKxM3R
In reply to: Seller_NIXVGFFTTwtLA’s post

My 2 cents worth…

Amazon should, in theory, distribute stock evenly across fulfilment centres. Obviously, you want a decent amount in BWU2 and MEL1 as those two centres fulfil more than 50% of Australia’s population.
However, I have found the theory does not work in practice. Amazon in Australia does not seem to evenly populate stock at each fulfilment centre as it does in the USA.
By all means, check for yourself. You need to know where your stock is. And, as mentioned, if an ASIN sells a decent amount and there is no stock in BWU2 or MEL1 - you are going to lose sales if Amazon has to fulfil from PER3.
Check this reports:
Go to: Amazon Fulfillment Reports
Look up: Inventory Ledger
Aggregate report by location by “Fulfilment centre”.

So long as you have at least one unit of any decent-selling ASIN at MEL1 and BWU2 - you are fine. If you don’t you will be losing sales.

PS: You can’t transfer stock from one centre to another. That is simply not possible. You can request to send in new inventory to another centre though.

During 2021, BWU1 (the old Sydney default centre) was getting constantly closed due to health reasons locking down the centre. I switched a lot of my inbounds to BNE1 and MEL1.

PS: You can request via SeSu to change your default centre for inbound inventory in AU (at least this is correct unless Amazon has changed recently).

Hope this helps.

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Seller_TIdN9R4YKxM3R
In reply to: Seller_NIXVGFFTTwtLA’s post

My 2 cents worth…

Amazon should, in theory, distribute stock evenly across fulfilment centres. Obviously, you want a decent amount in BWU2 and MEL1 as those two centres fulfil more than 50% of Australia’s population.
However, I have found the theory does not work in practice. Amazon in Australia does not seem to evenly populate stock at each fulfilment centre as it does in the USA.
By all means, check for yourself. You need to know where your stock is. And, as mentioned, if an ASIN sells a decent amount and there is no stock in BWU2 or MEL1 - you are going to lose sales if Amazon has to fulfil from PER3.
Check this reports:
Go to: Amazon Fulfillment Reports
Look up: Inventory Ledger
Aggregate report by location by “Fulfilment centre”.

So long as you have at least one unit of any decent-selling ASIN at MEL1 and BWU2 - you are fine. If you don’t you will be losing sales.

PS: You can’t transfer stock from one centre to another. That is simply not possible. You can request to send in new inventory to another centre though.

During 2021, BWU1 (the old Sydney default centre) was getting constantly closed due to health reasons locking down the centre. I switched a lot of my inbounds to BNE1 and MEL1.

PS: You can request via SeSu to change your default centre for inbound inventory in AU (at least this is correct unless Amazon has changed recently).

Hope this helps.

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In reply to: Seller_NIXVGFFTTwtLA’s post

Hi, just wondering if you had any success in having your stock relocated? I am in the same predicament with all stock in Perth.

Thanks

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Hi, just wondering if you had any success in having your stock relocated? I am in the same predicament with all stock in Perth.

Thanks

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