New Connector: FBA Manage Inventory Health Report
Answered1. Business Use Case for This Report
This report is crucial for proactive inventory management and financial risk mitigation within our Amazon operations. Our current Fivetran extracts do not provide the necessary health metrics, forcing us to rely on manual downloads and updates, which introduces significant risk and delay.
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Primary Goal: To build an automated inventory planning dashboard (in BigQuery/Looker Studio) that allows us to proactively manage our Reorder Points (ROP) and Days of Inventory (DOI).
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Risk Mitigation: The data is essential for preventing costly Out-of-Stock (OOS) situations and calculating future aged inventory fees or low inventory fees in advance.
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Automated Decision-Making: This report is the core source for creating operational alerts required by our Operations and Finance teams.
2. The Data Fields We Need from the Report
We need access to the full column schema of the "FBA Manage Inventory Health Report,"
3. Timeline Considerations
We consider this feature High Priority (Critical).
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Deadline: We urgently require this connector prior to Q1 2026 (our peak season ramp-up).
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Impact: Without this automated data, our inventory planning for the volatile Q1 period will be based on inaccurate, delayed information, significantly increasing our risk of both stockouts and excess inventory fees.
Link to AMZ API: https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/docs/report-type-values-fba#fba-manage-inventory-health-report
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Official comment
Hi Alvaro,
Thanks for submitting this request, we've added this to the backlog for our Amazon Selling Partner connector. We'll scope this out and get back to you if we have questions.
Progress updates will be shared on this thread as we evaluate and prioritize this request.
Thanks,
Shiva
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