MOQ, Incoterms, reorder points, FBA and warehouse terms — plain definitions for ecommerce sellers.
Units reserved for open orders or transfers.
Caps on how much inventory you can send into FBA.
Amazon Standard Identification Number — Amazon’s catalogue ID for a product.
Advance Shipping Notice — electronic heads-up of a delivery.
Units you can still sell after allocations and holds.
How many sellable units are in one supplier carton.
Cost, Insurance and Freight — seller pays freight and minimum insurance to the destination port.
Delivered at Place — seller delivers ready for unloading at the named place; buyer clears import.
How many days current (or planned) stock will last at expected demand.
Inventory expressed as days of sales — a turnover-style view of stock.
Delivered Duty Paid — seller delivers cleared for import with duties paid, ready for unloading.
Inventory with little or no realistic demand left.
Estimating future sales so you can buy and transfer stock in time.
Customs duty charged on imported goods (separate from VAT rules).
Economic Order Quantity — order size that minimises ordering plus holding cost.
Ex Works — seller makes goods available at their premises; buyer does the rest.
Fulfilment by Amazon — Amazon stores and ships your inventory.
Fulfilment by Merchant — you ship Amazon orders yourself or via your 3PL.
Free Carrier — seller delivers to the buyer’s carrier at a named place.
Amazon’s fulfilment network barcode for FBA inventory of your offer.
Free On Board — seller delivers when goods are on board the vessel at origin.
Partner who arranges international carriage, docs and often customs brokerage.
A planned delivery of stock into FBA (or a warehouse).
ICC rules that split shipping cost, risk and duties between buyer and seller.
Amazon Inventory Performance Index — a 0–1000 score of FBA inventory health.
True per-unit cost after product, freight, duty and related charges.
Days from deciding to order until stock is sellable again.
Minimum Order Quantity — the smallest order a supplier will accept.
Units physically in the warehouse right now.
The calendar date by which you should place the next PO.
More inventory than you reasonably need for demand and cover targets.
A formal order to a supplier for agreed SKUs, quantities and dates.
Stock level that should trigger your next purchase order.
Extra units held to cover demand or lead-time surprises.
Percentage of stock received (or available) that sold in a period.
Stock Keeping Unit — the unique code you use to track one sellable item.
Moving owned inventory between warehouses or into FBA.
When sellable stock hits zero and you cannot fulfil demand.
A stock location you plan and forecast as one pool.
Third-party logistics provider that stores and fulfils for you.
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Short definitions of replenishment, Amazon FBA, warehousing and Incoterms terms sellers hit when planning stock.
No. Incoterms and duty pages are educational. Confirm contracts and filings with your adviser or forwarder.
Four categories — Replenishment, Amazon, Warehousing and Importing/Incoterms — plus A–Z and search.
Yes for the common rules we document (EXW, FCA, FOB, CIF, DAP, DDP). DDU is legacy; use DAP or DPU.
Yes — start with these ~40 and expand from search demand and customer questions.
Where a term maps to a real product behaviour we say so. Otherwise we omit product claims.