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What’s Amazon’s coverage for on-time supply with out promise extensions?

Efficient September 25, 2024, you will need to keep a minimal 90% on-time supply fee (OTDR) with out promise extensions to have seller-fulfilled merchandise listed on Amazon.com. An OTDR beneath 90% may end up in restriction of your capability to have seller-fulfilled merchandise listed. For an excellent buyer expertise, we advocate that you simply keep a 95% or higher OTDR for all seller-fulfilled orders.

What’s altering?

Our up to date coverage requires a minimal 90% OTDR with out promise extensions to have seller-fulfilled merchandise listed on Amazon.com. An OTDR beneath 90% may end up in restriction of your capability to have seller-fulfilled merchandise listed. To assist present a optimistic buyer expertise, we advocate that you simply keep a 95% or higher OTDR for all seller-fulfilled orders. 

We’re additionally altering the best way we measure OTDR to now measure the share of your tracked seller-fulfilled gadgets that had been delivered on or earlier than the seller-promised “Ship by” date previous to promise extensions being added. Earlier than this alteration, OTDR was measured after promise extensions had been added. Promise extensions are further days that we might add to the supply date to account for logistical components that will delay a supply equivalent to excessive climate, transportation community constraints, or current historical past of a vendor delivering shipments after their set supply date. This coverage doesn’t apply to presents utilizing the Success by Amazon (FBA) service as a result of sellers should not liable for on-time supply guarantees for FBA orders.

Word: We’ll talk as we roll out the OTDR coverage, and any modifications from the coverage because it stands right this moment, that will have an effect on you.

What’s going to occur to my account if my OTDR falls beneath the 90% minimal requirement?
An OTDR beneath 90% may end up in restriction of your capability to have seller-fulfilled merchandise listed. If that occurs, we’ll notify you of the coverage violation and you’ll enchantment by clicking the Submit enchantment button on the prime of your Account Well being dashboard to request reinstatement of your capabilities to record seller-fulfilled merchandise. 

The request shall be reviewed inside 72 hours and will embody the next data:
The problems that led to a low on-time supply fee
The actions that you simply’ll take to enhance your on-time supply fee
The steps that you simply’ve taken to stop future points relating to on-time supply

On subsequent coverage violations, in case your OTDR continues to be beneath 90%, you may enchantment by clicking Submit enchantment on the prime of your Account Well being dashboard. 

To get reinstated:

Sellers on Particular person promoting plans or sellers on a Skilled promoting plan however delivery from outdoors the US should submit an enchantment request indicating how they are going to enhance their OTDR. Skilled sellers that ship domestically throughout the US shall be required to fulfill the 90% OTDR requirement by utilizing the next Amazon free-to-use success and delivery instruments for his or her seller-fulfilled orders for the following 180 days:

Transport Settings Automation (SSA) to set correct supply dates by means of automated transit time calculations of your most popular ship strategies.

Automated dealing with time to set correct dealing with occasions per SKU, based mostly on how lengthy it often takes you to move every SKU to carriers. For brand spanking new SKUs, the default dealing with time will apply till there are sufficient shipments in your automated dealing with time to be calculated. 

Amazon Purchase Transport to purchase delivery labels that use extremely dependable delivery strategies for each Skilled and Particular person promoting plans. You need to use Amazon Purchase Transport by means of Handle Orders, Transport API, Veeqo, or choose multi-channel integrators with entry to Amazon Purchase Transport. 

How is OTDR calculated?

OTDR measures the share of your tracked seller-fulfilled gadgets that had been delivered on or earlier than the seller-promised “Ship by” date. OTDR is the typical of your whole tracked shipped gadgets, not only a particular SKU or cargo. 

To calculate OTDR with out promise extensions, we’ll think about a 14-day window of time. We’ll pull knowledge from shipments that had a promised supply date within the final 21 days, and exclude the newest 7 days because the shipments from final 7 days should still be within the technique of being delivered. For instance, for those who had 130 orders with a promised supply date within the final 21 days, and 30 of these has a promised supply date within the final 7 days, OTDR shall be calculated excluding the 30 orders from the final 7 days (130 – 30 =100). Of these 100 orders delivered, if 90 had been delivered on or earlier than the promised “Ship by” date, your OTDR can be 90%.

Vendor’s promised “Ship by” date is calculated utilizing seller-set dealing with and transit time, previous to the addition of promise extensions. This date could also be completely different than the supply date proven to clients if promise extensions had been added.

For instance, for a vendor with a set dealing with time of 1 day and set transit time of two days:
The promised “Ship by” date shall be in 3 enterprise days.

So, if an order is acquired on a Monday, this order would must be delivered by Thursday (seller-promised “Ship by” date) to be thought-about delivered on time.

Nevertheless, if 1 day of promise extensions was added to that provide, the promised supply date the client noticed whereas buying would have been Friday. No matter the date proven to the client (Friday), sellers should ship by their set “Ship by” date (Thursday) for the cargo to be thought-about delivered on-time.

Shipped items shall be thought-about as OTDR compliant if both the supply occurred on or earlier than the “Ship by” date proven on Vendor Central, or the next 3 situations had been met: 

The shipped SKU was assigned to a delivery template with Transport Settings Automation (SSA) enabled.
Your account has automated dealing with time enabled.
To procure an “OTDR Protected” delivery label on Amazon Purchase Transport.

Word: OTDR Safety is barely relevant to Skilled sellers delivery from the US, as all the required instruments are at the moment not accessible on Particular person promoting plans or to Skilled sellers which can be delivery from outdoors of the US.

Does Amazon provide instruments that may assist me enhance my OTDR and meet the Amazon’s OTDR necessities?

Sure. You possibly can handle your supply dates utilizing the instruments we’ve offered, or you may manually alter your Transit time and Dealing with time settings. We designed these instruments to set correct supply dates, scale back late deliveries, and to fulfill or exceed the minimal OTDR requirement. And since Amazon is making calculations in your behalf that have an effect on OTDR, you’ll get OTDR safety from late deliveries on gadgets shipped by means of customary delivery for those who use all three instruments as follows:

Transport Settings Automation (SSA), for Skilled promoting plans, units correct supply dates by means of automated transit time calculations of your most popular delivery companies. You could select one of many most popular ship strategies within the SSA templates, which can mark the transit time on the delivery template as “Managed by Amazon”.

Automated dealing with time, for Skilled promoting plans, units correct dealing with occasions per SKU based mostly on how lengthy it often takes you to move every SKU to carriers. You could be certain that automated dealing with time is enabled in your delivery settings.

Amazon Purchase Transport, for each Skilled and Particular person promoting plans, sells delivery labels that use highly-reliable ship strategies. You need to use Amazon Purchase Transport by means of Handle Orders, Transport API, Veeqo, or choose multi-channel integrators with entry to Amazon Purchase Transport. You could select delivery labels marked as “OTDR Protected” when utilizing Amazon Purchase Transport or Veeqo.

Word: OTDR Safety is barely accessible for gadgets shipped by means of Normal Transport, gadgets shipped by means of different delivery choices equivalent to Free Financial system, Normal Prime, or Premium Transport, should not eligible for OTDR safety.

For instance, if a vendor shipped 100 orders and 15 had been delivered late:

Situation A: If a vendor didn’t use all three of Amazon’s free success and delivery instruments for any of these 15 late deliveries, all 15 of their late deliveries will negatively affect their OTDR. In consequence, their OTDR shall be (100-15/100) = 85%.

Situation B: If a vendor used all three of Amazon’s free success and delivery instruments for five of these 15 late deliveries, solely the ten late shipments that weren’t utilizing Amazon’s instruments will negatively affect OTDR. In consequence, the vendor’s OTDR shall be (100-10/100) = 90%.

Word: OTDR Safety is barely relevant to Skilled sellers delivery from the US, as all the required instruments are at the moment not accessible on Particular person promoting plans or to Skilled sellers which can be delivery from outdoors of the US.

Can I be exempted from the OTDR requirement if supply delays are attributable to climate or provider community points past my management?

Sellers should meet the 90% OTDR requirement with out promise extensions. Nevertheless, if there’s a main disruption occasion that impacts all sellers delivery to a particular area, Amazon is not going to depend deliveries which can be late because of this in your OTDR. Whether or not a disruption is taken into account to be main is a discretionary choice made by Amazon.
What modifications are you making to dealing with time and transit time settings?

Transit time modifications: As of August 25, 2024, transit time necessities shall be up to date to additional align with the supply capabilities of delivery companies. In the event you’re delivery throughout the contiguous United States (excluding Hawaii, Alaska, and US territories), you may set a most transit time of 5 days for traditional delivery (beforehand 8 days) and eight days without spending a dime economic system delivery (beforehand 10 days). To study extra, go to Default transit time. In the event you’re delivery internationally to the US, there are at the moment no modifications to the transit occasions you could configure.

Dealing with time automation: As of September 25, 2024, to enhance dealing with time accuracy, automated dealing with time shall be enabled for sellers who’ve a dealing with time hole of two days or extra between their set dealing with time and their precise dealing with time. That will help you hold in good standing with different account well being metrics associated to dealing with time, if in case you have automated dealing with time enabled, your seller-fulfilled listings is not going to be deactivated in case your late cargo fee (LSR) doesn’t meet the LSR coverage requirement. To see your dealing with time hole, evaluation your Success Perception dashboard.

How can I view my on-time supply (OTD) metric and report?

To view your OTD metrics and report on Vendor Central:

On the Efficiency menu, choose Account Well being.
Find the Transport Efficiency part and choose On-time supply fee.
You possibly can see your OTDR metric on the Transport Efficiency web page. Solely orders included within the present OTD defect report depend towards the OTDR metric. If the report accommodates no orders, it means both all the orders had been delivered on time or they fulfilled utilizing Amazon’s free success instruments.
To obtain the OTD defect report, click on View particulars after which Obtain report.

Vital: Enable 72 hours for the report and metrics to replicate any updates or edits.
How can I keep a wholesome OTDR?

To maintain a wholesome OTDR with out promise extensions we advocate that you simply do the next:

Assessment your OTDR with out promise extensions metric in your Account Well being dashboard. You can even obtain a report of which orders had been delivered after the supply date with out promise extensions.

Assessment the “Ship by” date for each order. This date corresponds to the anticipated supply date with out promise extensions. Word that the precise supply date that clients see could also be longer due to promise extensions. 

If you’re a Skilled vendor, use automated dealing with time to set correct dealing with time per SKU based mostly on how lengthy it has taken you traditionally handy off every SKU to carriers. Moreover, with automated dealing with time enabled, your seller-fulfilled listings is not going to be deactivated in case your late cargo fee (LSR) doesn’t meet the LSR coverage requirement.
If you’re a Skilled vendor, allow Transport Settings Automation (SSA), which units correct supply dates in your orders by routinely calculating transit occasions of your most popular ship strategies out of your warehouse to every buyer’s location.

Choose a ship methodology with a excessive reliability to ship your order on time. You can even use Amazon Purchase Transportto purchase delivery labels which have been recognized to have a excessive reliability for On-time supply based mostly on Amazon’s knowledge from hundreds of thousands of shipments. These ship strategies have a protect icon subsequent to them, marked as OTDR Protected. You need to use Amazon Purchase Transport by means of Handle Orders, Transport API, Veeqo, or choose multi-channel integrators with entry to Amazon Purchase Transport. To study extra about buying OTDR protected delivery labels, go to Amazon Purchase Transport.