The Amazon connector allows you to connect your Amazon warehouses to Inventory Planner, so you can sync your inventory, revenue and competitive price information to use for forecasting and replenishment decisions.

Inventory Planner supports both Fulfilled by Merchant (FBM) and Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) workflows. It can sync inbound FBA shipments from Amazon as purchase orders or transfer orders to help improve the accuracy of your replenishment recommendations. Alternatively, you can sync purchase orders or transfer orders created in Inventory Planner to Amazon Seller Central to save time creating inbound shipment plans.

The Amazon connector is compatible with other connectors, and can be configured to support workflows that use non-Amazon warehouses (such as listing FBM products on Amazon and fulfilling from a Shopify warehouse), or Amazon warehouses to fulfill non-Amazon orders (such as MCF, or multi-channel fulfilment).

Inventory Planner allows you to combine listings for the same variant from multiple platforms (e.g. Amazon and Shopify), or multiple times on the same platform (e.g. FBA and FBM) to improve your forecasting and replenishment data.

Sales orders are synced from Amazon to use in forecasting.

By default, the Amazon connector excludes all non-Amazon marketplace orders with no price and an unshipped status as they don’t represent sales demand from this channel, such as removal orders and manual orders. The connector may also exclude multi-channel fulfillment (MCF) orders until they ship.

Inbound shipments from Amazon Seller Central can be automatically created as purchase orders or transfer orders in Inventory Planner. Once they’re created in Inventory Planner, any updates to the shipments in Amazon Seller Central will sync from Amazon to Inventory Planner, including changes to dates and the receipt of stock. You can also choose to sync Partner Carrier shipping and handling fees.

Purchase orders and transfer orders created in Inventory Planner with an Amazon FBA location set as the destination warehouse can also be sent from Inventory Planner to Amazon. After creating the order, you’ll see an option to save the order to Amazon. Clicking the button initiates a Send to Amazon workflow in Amazon, which can be managed and completed in Seller Central.

Inventory changes in Amazon are synced during the nightly sync, or on a manual trigger. FBA inventory is updated when Amazon receives an inbound shipment.

The stock level is calculated as the stock in Amazon plus stock reserved due to fulfillment center transfers (as it’s available for sale). This figure excludes both “FC Processing” stock and stock reserved for customer orders. If you would like to include “FC Processing” stock, contact Inventory Planner support.

FBA stock is matched by ASIN (instead of matched by SKU). Contact Inventory Planner support to discuss matching by SKU instead.

New listings are downloaded into Inventory Planner with the nightly sync, and updates to listings are synced weekly. Inventory Planner support can change the timing of update syncs, though it may result in longer sync times.

If you sell on multiple platforms, including multiple Amazon marketplaces, Inventory Planner will attempt to link your listings based on matching product information. Learn more about listings here.

Inventory Planner supports all the marketplaces available via SP-API as of July 2024. The supported marketplaces are listed below, grouped into their Amazon region, with Inventory Planner’s ID for those regions in brackets.