Demand planning

Demand planning for Amazon Vendors

Sudden PO cuts, stockouts, and excess inventory are daily risks for Amazon 1P vendors. Demand planning gives you the foresight to align supply with real demand. Thus, protecting revenue, margins, and vendor performance.

Planning your Amazon demand based on where it’s needed

For Amazon Vendors, accurate demand planning is critical to maintaining Buy Box availability, healthy inventory, and consistent profitability. Our demand planning features give vendors full visibility into inventory management, forecasting, and stock monitoring, while combining your own business data with Amazon’s signals for maximum accuracy.

Amazon inventory management

Spot inventory discrepancies before they damage your listing:

  • Real-time inventory visibility across ASINs
  • Replenishment recommendations to avoid stock-outs or excess
  • Sell-through and aging analysis for better cash flow
  • Automated alerts for low or overstock conditions

Your AMVisor advantage: With the AMVisor Power BI application you easily connect Amazon’s retail analytics with your internal logistics insights. This way you are set up for precise, balanced inventory management, on all ends.

Amazon stock monitoring

Track every item, everywhere, in real time.

  • Real-time tracking across multiple locations
  • Alerts for out-of-stock or excess inventory
  • Performance KPIs: sell-through rate, OOS %, PO fill rate
  • Identify supply chain gaps before they become problems

AMVisor USP: Our transparent, customizable dashboards allow instant adjustments and better decision-making no excel spreadsheets needed.

Amazon sales and inventory forecasting

Anticipate demand with confidence by leveraging the following action points:

  • Predict future POs based on Amazon demand patterns
  • Transparent, visual reports with Sell-In/Sell-Out comparison
  • Capture seasonality and promotion impacts

How are you benefitting with AMVisor? Stop relying on unreliable P70/P80 figures. Start forecasting based on real, blended insights tailored to your product performance.

What is demand planning?

Demand Planning integrates sales forecasting, inventory control, and supply chain alignment.
It helps vendors anticipate future product needs, manage purchase orders efficiently, and prevent out-of-stock or overstock situations.

Core benefits

  • Predict demand with higher accuracy
  • Align supply with real-time sales trends
  • Reduce Amazon chargebacks and lost sales due to optimized inventory planning
  • Strengthen collaboration between logistics, finance, and sales teams
  • Improve overall vendor performance metrics

The demand planning process

  1. Data Collection Combine historical sales, seasonality, and marketing data.
  2. Forecasting Apply statistical or AI-driven models to predict demand.
  3. Reconciliation Align forecasts with supply and promotional plans.
  4. Monitoring & Adjustment Continuously update insights with live data.

With AMVisor, each step is automated, visualized, and based on real Amazon Vendor Central data turning complexity into clarity.

Why choose AMVisor for demand planning?

  • Built specifically for Amazon 1P Vendors

  • Combines Amazon retail + vendor data for reliable data

  • Visual Sell-In and Sell-Out comparison
  • Insights from 600+ ASIN data points

  • Transparent and actionable dashboards

  • Trusted by over 150 vendors across Europe, UK and US

What can AMVisor do for 1P Vendors?

Read for yourself how AMVisor supports its partners in overcoming Amazon profitability issues.

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What should we do if Amazon isn’t ordering certain ASINs?

Use Stock Monitoring to track non-moving ASINs and their order history. AMVisor helps you:

  • Detect when an ASIN hasn’t received a PO in an unusual time frame
  • Cross-check sales potential versus Amazon ordering behavior
  • Highlight underperforming SKUs or suppressed listings

Result: You can investigate why an ASIN isn’t being ordered and take action. Whether it’s fixing content, adjusting pricing, or raising a case with Amazon.

How can we improve inventory forecasting?

AMVisor’s Forecasting feature uses real-time sales performance data from Vendor Central to generate accurate demand forecasts.
You get:

  • ASIN-level forecast accuracy
  • Sell-In and Sell-Out data comparison
  • Tops- and Flops on your daily Dashboard

Result: Better planning, fewer stockouts, and optimized replenishment cycles.

How can we better balance FBA and vendor stock positions?

Use AMVisor’s Inventory management feature to get full visibility into both FBA and vendor inventory levels. The platform helps you:

  • Track inventory positions across channels in real time
  • Identify slow-moving or excess inventory in FBA
  • Detect gaps in vendor inventory that could lead to missed POs

Result: You can proactively shift supply strategies, prevent duplication, and align fulfillment between FBA and 1P vendor channels.

What should we do if Amazon keeps purchasing outdated product versions?

Leverage AMVisor’s Stock Monitoring to track purchase order trends and ASIN-level sales. The platform flags suspicious ASINs Amazon and helps you:

  • Identify which product versions are being repeatedly purchased
  • Spot missed transitions to updated ASINs or product generations
  • Provide clear data to your Amazon contact or support team to update catalog listings

Result: You can push Amazon to transition to the correct SKUs and phase out obsolete versions with data-backed insights.

Ready to enhance your Amazon demand planning?

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