Amazon FBA Aged Inventory Surcharge Report
This report provides itemized details of your most recent aged inventory surcharge charges to allow you to identify which of your products in Amazon fulfillment centers were charged the aged inventory surcharge and review the amounts charged.
Aged inventory surcharge (previously known as the Amazon Long-Term Storage Fee) is charged on inventory units stored in Amazon fulfillment network for 181 days and above. This report includes product details, quantity, per-unit volume and the total amount charged for each SKU to which the aged inventory surcharge was applied.
The aged inventory surcharge is charged based on the total volume in cubic feet of units that have been stored in Amazon fulfillment centers for more than 180 days. Per SKU amounts are calculated using the following columns in the report: (amount-charged) = (rate-surcharge) x (qty-charged). The rate-surcharge column is the per-unit rate calculated as (per-unit-volume) x (surcharge rate). Surcharge rates vary by surcharge-age-tier according to the rates shown in Aged inventory surcharge. To calculate the total aged inventory surcharge charged across all inventory, download the report and add up the charges in the amount-charged column.
Aged inventory surcharges are assessed using an inventory snapshot on the 15th day of each month and is in addition to the monthly inventory storage fee.
How can I avoid the aged inventory surcharge?
Active management of older inventory can help you avoid the aged inventory surcharge. To remove older inventory before the next inventory cleanup date, consider one of the options below.
Mark down and sell through Amazon Outlet: Setting up a deal through Amazon Outlet can help you sell through older inventory. An Outlet deal is a promotional offer with a minimum discount of 20%. To learn more, go to About Amazon Outlet.
Submit a removal or disposal order: If you submit a removal or disposal order for inventory before the cleanup date, that inventory won’t incur an aged inventory surcharge, even if it isn’t physically removed before the cleanup date. The deadline for submitting a removal order is 11:59 p.m. (PT) on the 14th of the month.
Another option for removals or disposals is to set up automated removals.
When can you replenish your inventory?
If you remove units of an ASIN that would be subject to the aged inventory surcharge at the next inventory cleanup date, you won’t be able to send us more units of that ASIN for three months after that date. There is an exception to this policy if your inventory levels for the removed ASIN fall below our running eight-week sales projections.
Three months after the inventory cleanup date: Restrictions based on removals are lifted at this point. For example, if you remove inventory before the February 15 inventory cleanup between January 16 and 11:59 p.m. (PT) on February 14, you’ll be able to send more units of that ASIN to fulfillment centers starting on May 15, unless your ability to send units of that ASIN has been restricted for another reason.
Inventory level falls below sales projection: We base our projection of your sales of an ASIN for the next eight weeks on your average sales rate for that ASIN during the preceding 90 days. At any point that your inventory level for that ASIN falls below eight weeks of cover, the removal-based restriction is lifted and you can send more units to fulfillment centers.
Your inventory utilization for that ASIN may not exceed the preceding 90 days of sales, or about 13 weeks of cover. Inventory utilization consists of your in-stock inventory plus any inventory on its way to a fulfillment center, from creation of a shipment order to receiving at the fulfillment center.
How much new inventory can you send?
For example, if the ASIN you removed sold 180 units in the preceding 90 days, we would project your sales for the next eight weeks as 112 units based on this calculation: 180/90 (units sold/day) x 7 (days/week) x 8 (weeks).
If your inventory utilization fell below projected sales (112), you could send more units of that ASIN to an Amazon fulfillment center, up to the number sold in the previous 90 days (180). So if your inventory utilization fell to 111 units, you could send up to 69 more units to the fulfillment center (180 – 111 = 69).
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