Amazon Vendor Central Glossary

Fast Track Buy Box rate is an Amazon Vendor Central metric that measures vendor performance and product availability, taking into account the in-stock percentage, pricing, and selection of your available items, and it tracks how often those items carry a Fast Track offer.

Total cost of the units, Amazon received from you during the selected time period.

Total shipped cost of goods sold by Amazon during the selected time period. / Cost of goods sold to customers.

Total shipped cost of goods sold by Amazon during the selected time period. Cost of goods sold to customers.

A chargeback on Amazon Vendor Central is a fee Amazon deducts from your remittance when an order or shipment misses one of its compliance requirements.

Percentage of Items Confirmed as ‘Accepted’ during PO confirmation.

Percentage of Quantity Confirmed as ‘Back Ordered’ during PO confirmation.

LBB (Lost Buy Box) due to price is the Vendor Central metric for the percentage of an ASIN's page views during which Amazon had the item in replenishable state and lost the buy box to a third-party merchant due to uncompetitive price.

Monthly Estimated Net Received is a calculated value using the weekly "Net Received" value from the "InventoryHealth" report. Currently, Amazon ARA doesn't provide a Monthly Net Received so this is used as an alternative.

Total shipped cost of goods sold by Amazon during the selected time period. Cost of goods sold to customers.

Net amount received by Amazon after subtracting the amount returned to the supplier in the selected time frame.

On Hand Revenue is the estimated amount of revenue that amazon would generate if it sold off it's current inventory. On Hand Revenue is calculated by multiplying On Hand Units by Retail Price.

Listing out of stock items with a Replenishment Code of 'Planned Replenishment (PR)' or 'New Product (NP)'. All other items are not listed.

Rep OOS (Replenishable Out of Stock) is the percentage of customer glance views during which the item was Out of Stock but Replenishable, measured over the total customer glance views the item had.

Shipped Revenue is InsightLeap's estimate to what Amazon's Shipped revenue is for a given period. We calculate this value by multiplying Shipped Units by Retail Price.

Top products shipped this month (units)

Unit Cost is the price that amazon purchased the product. It is calculated by dividing Shipped COGS by Shipped Units. If Shipped COGS is not available we divide On Hand Cost by On Hand Units to determine the Unit Cost.

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Fast Track Buy Box rate is an Amazon Vendor Central metric that measures vendor performance and product availability, taking into account the in-stock percentage, pricing, and selection of your available items, and it tracks how often those items carry a Fast Track offer.

Total cost of the units, Amazon received from you during the selected time period.

Total shipped cost of goods sold by Amazon during the selected time period. / Cost of goods sold to customers.

Total shipped cost of goods sold by Amazon during the selected time period. Cost of goods sold to customers.

On Amazon, an Andon Cord is a hold that suspends a single ASIN from sale after customer complaints point to a physical or functional defect, or to a mismatch between the item and its product page, until the vendor responds and the complaints are resolved.

An ASN (Advance Shipment Notice) is the electronic notice a vendor sends Amazon before a shipment reaches the fulfillment center, declaring what is on the truck, in which cartons, and against which PO.

AVS (Amazon Vendor Services) is Amazon's paid, invitation-only account-management program for 1P vendors, distinct from Alexa Voice Service, the unrelated Amazon developer platform that shares the same abbreviation.

Carrier Central is Amazon's appointment portal at carriercentral.amazon.com, where a vendor or its carrier books, tracks, and reschedules delivery appointments for inbound freight arriving at an Amazon fulfillment center.

A chargeback on Amazon Vendor Central is a fee Amazon deducts from your remittance when an order or shipment misses one of its compliance requirements.

Contra-COGS is Amazon's accounting term for the vendor-funded allowances that get netted against Shipped COGS, lowering the cost of goods sold Amazon books on the products it buys from you.

Co-op, short for cooperative marketing agreement, is a vendor-funded share of your Amazon business that Amazon deducts from what it pays you, covering the marketing, freight, and damage terms your vendor agreement commits you to.

Direct Fulfillment is Amazon's vendor dropship program: Amazon still buys the unit from you, but you ship it straight to the customer from your own warehouse, where it stays until Amazon has a customer order for it.

FFP (Frustration-Free Packaging) is Amazon's Tier 1 packaging certification, the highest of its three tiers, confirming that a vendor's retail packaging is fully recyclable, easy to open, and free of excess protective material.

Percentage of Items Confirmed as ‘Accepted’ during PO confirmation.

Percentage of Quantity Confirmed as ‘Back Ordered’ during PO confirmation.

LBB (Lost Buy Box) due to price is the Vendor Central metric for the percentage of an ASIN's page views during which Amazon had the item in replenishable state and lost the buy box to a third-party merchant due to uncompetitive price.

Monthly Estimated Net Received is a calculated value using the weekly "Net Received" value from the "InventoryHealth" report. Currently, Amazon ARA doesn't provide a Monthly Net Received so this is used as an alternative.

Total shipped cost of goods sold by Amazon during the selected time period. Cost of goods sold to customers.

Net PPM (Net Pure Product Margin) is Amazon's product-level margin metric for vendors: pure product margin after cost of goods and services are deducted, shown as a percentage against the prior period and year over year.

Net amount received by Amazon after subtracting the amount returned to the supplier in the selected time frame.

On Hand Revenue is the estimated amount of revenue that amazon would generate if it sold off it's current inventory. On Hand Revenue is calculated by multiplying On Hand Units by Retail Price.

Listing out of stock items with a Replenishment Code of 'Planned Replenishment (PR)' or 'New Product (NP)'. All other items are not listed.

Rep OOS (Replenishable Out of Stock) is the percentage of customer glance views during which the item was Out of Stock but Replenishable, measured over the total customer glance views the item had.

PO (Purchase Order) On-Time Accuracy is the Amazon Vendor Central chargeback category that measures whether a vendor ships or delivers confirmed units within the ship or delivery window named on the purchase order.

Procurable Product OOS (also called Retail OOS or ROOS) is the Vendor Central metric for the share of an ASIN's glance views that arrived while the item was out of stock, measured across every ASIN Amazon can procure from the vendor.

A purchase order (PO) on Amazon Vendor Central is the order Amazon issues to a vendor against its own demand forecast, naming the items and quantities Amazon wants shipped and the window it wants them in.

Remittance advice is the statement Amazon sends a vendor showing what it paid against invoiced purchase orders, what it deducted from that payment, and why.

Shipped Revenue is InsightLeap's estimate to what Amazon's Shipped revenue is for a given period. We calculate this value by multiplying Shipped Units by Retail Price.

A shortage claim is Amazon's claim that a vendor invoiced for more units than Amazon's receiving process recorded, and the difference comes off the payment on that invoice.

SIOC (Ships in Own Container) is Amazon's Tier 2 packaging certification, confirming that a product's own packaging can travel through Amazon's fulfillment network to the customer without an overbox or any added Amazon packaging.

SIPP (Ships in Product Packaging) is Amazon's current name for the packaging certification previously called SIOC (Ships in Own Container): the same program with the same certification standards, renamed.

SoROOS (Sourceable Replenishable Out of Stock) is the Vendor Central metric for the share of an ASIN's customer glance views that landed while the item was out of stock even though Amazon's systems showed it could still be sourced and reordered from the vendor.

An SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code) label is the GS1-128 barcode that carries the 18-digit number identifying a single carton or pallet in a vendor shipment to Amazon.

Top products shipped this month (units)

Unapplied cash (also called unapplied credit) is a payment or credit that has reached a vendor's Amazon account but has not been matched to the specific invoice or purchase order it was meant to settle.

Unit Cost is the price that amazon purchased the product. It is calculated by dividing Shipped COGS by Shipped Units. If Shipped COGS is not available we divide On Hand Cost by On Hand Units to determine the Unit Cost.

A vendor return, or Return to Vendor (RTV), is inventory Amazon sends back to a vendor's own warehouse on Amazon's initiative, with the cost deducted from what Amazon pays the vendor.

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