Amazon Upgrades Inventory Management and Global Selling Tools for Sellers

Amazon sellers may soon have an easier way to manage their businesses. Amazon recently upgraded its AI tools, consolidated cross-border sales data, and expanded the reach of its warehousing and fulfillment services.

In the future, sellers may be able to use AI to better understand demand across different countries. They can also store inventory closer to production sites through Amazon Global Warehousing and Distribution (GWD), then replenish each market based on actual demand. (Amazon)

1. Seller Assistant Adds AI Inventory Management

Seller Assistant helps Amazon sellers identify potential stockouts and slow-moving inventory earlier. This can reduce out-of-stock situations and help sellers avoid continuing to invest in products that are not selling.

The new Inbound Planning and Aged Inventory features will proactively alert sellers and provide recommendations. Sellers can review SKUs that may soon run out of stock, products with slowing sales, and inventory that has remained in storage for an extended period. They can then decide whether to place additional purchase orders, adjust replenishment quantities, or clear slow-moving inventory.

Amazon sellers can now set conditions and approval requirements, allowing Seller Assistant to continuously monitor inventory, pricing, and account health. The tool provides recommendations based on those rules and, once the seller approves, carries out the relevant tasks. This could significantly reduce repetitive work for operations teams. (About Amazon)

2. Amazon Consolidates Global Seller Tools and Shipment Tracking

Amazon’s unified global seller system allows sellers to compare sales opportunities across markets in one place. The first version of its global view displays product demand, potential sales returns and costs in the United States, Europe, and Japan, along with the remaining steps required to enter each market.

Amazon also plans to add cross-border listing, inventory, and order management, reducing the repetitive work of managing each marketplace separately.

Over the coming weeks, Amazon will also begin consolidating shipment tracking into a single interface.

Sellers currently need to use different pages and reports to check shipments in transit, warehouse receiving progress, and inventory changes. Once shipment tracking is unified, sellers will be able to view the status of Amazon-managed shipments and reconciled receiving quantities in one place. This will reduce the time spent switching between pages and compiling data.

Amazon is also consolidating product compliance requirements across different countries. Sellers will be able to review testing, labeling, and packaging requirements for target markets through the same interface. The system will also identify certifications that sellers already hold.

The feature currently applies only to toys. Amazon plans to expand it to electronics and baby products by the end of 2026.

3. Amazon Expands GWD Replenishment Coverage

Amazon Global Warehousing and Distribution is a supply chain service that allows sellers to consolidate inventory near the point of production and replenish overseas markets in batches based on demand. Sellers can place inventory in GWD facilities, then send products to overseas FBA fulfillment centers according to actual sales across Amazon marketplaces.

As of September 2026, Amazon operates three GWD facilities in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Ningbo. All three currently support replenishment to FBA fulfillment centers in the United States.

Through December 31, 2026, every shipment sent to a GWD facility in Shenzhen, Shanghai, or Ningbo is eligible for 30 days of free storage, with no limit on the number of shipments or SKUs.

Under the plan Amazon announced in September, GWD will add seven replenishment destinations by the end of 2026: the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Canada. Together with the United States, which is already available, the service will cover eight countries.

For Amazon sellers, this could help reduce some of the pressure to send inventory to multiple countries too early.

Amazon says GWD storage costs can be up to 45% lower than those at Amazon Warehousing and Distribution (AWD) facilities in the United States. The company also says GWD can shorten FBA replenishment times by up to five days. (About Amazon)