Overview

Amazon provides a comprehensive suite of inventory reports within Seller Central that give FBA sellers visibility into their stock levels, movements, and potential issues across fulfillment centers. These reports are essential tools for maintaining accurate inventory records, avoiding unexpected fees, and making informed restocking decisions.

Key Points / What Sellers Need to Know

• Multiple report types are available — Amazon offers over a dozen distinct inventory reports, each designed for a specific aspect of inventory management, from real-time snapshots to historical event logs.
• Time-based reporting varies — Some reports provide near-real-time data, while others offer daily or monthly snapshots, giving sellers flexibility in how they monitor stock.
• Reconciliation support — Detailed event history reports allow sellers to track inventory movements over periods of up to 18 months, which is critical for identifying discrepancies.
• Long-term storage fee alerts — Specific reports flag inventory that is at risk of incurring long-term storage fees at the next cleanup date, helping sellers take action before charges hit.
• Archived vs. active listings — Some reports include archived listings while others do not, so sellers need to choose the right report depending on whether they need a complete or current-only view.

Available Report Types

Amazon's FBA inventory reports fall into several categories. Snapshot reports capture your inventory state at a specific moment — either in near-real-time, daily, or monthly intervals — and include details such as quantity, location, and disposition of your products across fulfillment centers. These are ideal for quickly assessing current stock levels and identifying where your inventory is physically located. The daily and monthly versions are particularly useful for tracking trends over time and catching gradual shifts in inventory distribution.

Event-based reports provide a chronological history of inventory activities such as receipts, shipments, adjustments, and transfers, broken down by SKU and fulfillment center. These reports are invaluable when you need to investigate why your inventory counts have changed, trace a specific unit's journey through the fulfillment network, or reconcile your records against Amazon's data. Sellers can pull detailed event data covering up to 18 months.