Amazon Warehousing and Distribution (AWD)

SoStocked now has an API integration into AWD. This allows us to pull the following reports on a daily basis:

AWD warehouse inventory levels
ASDN shipments (AWD to FBA)

This integration will allow you to sync your AWD inventory levels which is automatically updated through the API feed daily. It will also pull in new AWD to FBA (ASDN) shipments and SoStocked will auto-reconcile those FBA shipments so you do not have to do anything. All inbound inventory will be counted as inbound with a 20-day inbound lead time. The FBA (ASDN) shipments will behave exactly as other reconciled FBA shipments as covered in that tutorial.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Before fully transitioning over from manual to automatic, please check the reports for discrepancies. Amazon's API reports can, in some instances, vary from their Seller Central reports. We are investigating this. If you have any concerns, you can choose to continue manually uploading your AWD levels by turning the AWD feature off in the Forecast Settings area. If you need any assist, reach out to Support.

Please watch this short introduction video to ensure your AWD integration is set up:

How to Transition From the Old AWD Workaround to the New Integration

Start on your Forecast Settings page and turn on the "Active AWD integration" option, then save.
Give the system a few minutes to update the data.
Go to your Inventory Page, and open any product that is fulfilled by AWD, then scroll down to the Warehouse Levels section. Check to make sure the new vendor is active and inventory levels are displayed. If the inventory quantities do not match, you can download your AWD report from Seller Central to ensure the API report is accurate. NOTE: These reports are pulled around 12:00 am midnight PST so the numbers may be off a bit since the last API call. They will update again on the next API call.
If you are not seeing the AWD reports or data come through, then you will need to reauthorize your API through SoStocked. Simply go to your Connected Amazon Stores page and click the yellow Reconnect button to authorize the new AWD API. Do not disconnect the API or you will delete data in your account!
If you are using an old AWD vendor (manual entry) then your forecasts will now show two AWD levels. This means we need to archive the old vendor so we are only using the new API data.

Go to your Vendors Page and archive the old AWD warehouse. Make sure you select the purple button option to Archive and Unassign. This will erase all manually-entered inventory from this old vendor and hide it from view. Now you only have one AWD warehouse and it's the one coming from Amazon's API. These inventory numbers will automatically update daily between 12-3 am PST.

AWD Workflow Best Practices

Set your FBA transfer schedule to As Needed with a minimum of 30 and a max of 35 days. This will mimic the auto replenishment from AWD to FBA. If you are 100% using AWD auto replenishment then you will not be creating transfers or FBA shipments, as Amazon does that for you. So this transfer schedule is merely uses to create an estimate of what Amazon will send from AWD to FBA, ensuring that you place POs that are sufficient for that future demand.
All FBA shipments created from AWD (ASDN) will be automatically reconciled as a one-time shipment. The system will display these as inbound on your Forecast Inventory Timeline with a 20 day inbound lead time (worst case scenario). But as soon as FBA scans the barcode on the FBA shipment it will display as being checked in "tomorrow".
Set up your default lead time from supplier to vendor, "Amazon AWD".
NOTE: We do not yet have STAR integration but that is coming very soon. That means the inventory from your supplier to AWD (not FBA) will not yet be auto-reconciled. The workaround is to create your inbound-to-AWD shipments as POs so we can see the inbound inventory to AWD. When the inventory arrives to AWD, make sure you close the PO when the inventory lands at AWD so we are not counting inbound STAR shipments after the AWD inventory API update
Input existing purchase orders to AWD (STAR shipments)
Order schedule set to how often customer wants to order. e.g. if you want to order monthly then AWD max should be 30 days larger than minimum.

AWD Advanced Workflow (using multiple warehouses)

From Amazon:

Auto-Replenishment uses a proprietary data science model to trigger replenishment to the FBA network. When the combined quantity of Available inventory in FBA network and Inventory in transit to FBA network falls below the Optimum level of supply for a specific ASIN, the Auto-Replenishment will be triggered during the next scheduled replenishment cycle to ensure the ASIN does not go out-of-stock.

Currently, the science model runs 3 times a week to monitor inventory in the FBA network and determine if an Auto-Replenishment shipment needs to be triggered.

The replenishments take up to an average of 14 days to move from an AWD center to the FBA network.

Further details regarding Replenishments from AWD are provided in help page : https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/GKH7ASMAL93YECBF

Currently there are no long term storage fees present at AWD.

Details regarding AWD fees are provided in help page : https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/GAYG62Q3MPE6STFS