Amazon is screwing you some more with FBA this January. This is a blatant push to support their vendor program or to get critical supply chain or COGS information from you.
Plan your exit strategy if your margins on Amazon do not outweigh your privacy concerns for your COGS or supply chain.
" Hello,
We’re updating our Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) inventory reimbursement policy to help provide you greater transparency and more predictability in how reimbursements are calculated for items that are lost or damaged before a customer order. This will help drive a more consistent approach that works as we support sellers with supply chain services across their sales channels.
Effective March 10, 2025, we’ll reimburse you based on the product manufacturing cost of the affected inventory. To help provide you greater control and accuracy, you can choose how we determine the manufacturing cost for your products:
• We’ll provide a manufacturing cost estimate for you. This estimate is based on a comprehensive evaluation of comparable products sold by Amazon, by other sellers, and through wholesale channels.
• You can provide your manufacturing costs directly. If you don’t provide your own costs, we’ll automatically apply our estimate which you can change when you’re ready.
…"
We will be using a sister company or DBA to invoice ourselves to protect our supply chain information.
You can read the details logged in HERE.