Amazon FBA expiration-date tracking, before it becomes a write-off
We are evaluating a workflow for Amazon sellers who manage supplements, food, cosmetics, pet products, and other date-sensitive inventory. The idea: connect seller-entered lot dates to demand forecasts so risky stock surfaces while there is still time to act.
An important Amazon limitation
Amazon does not expose an authoritative lot-level depletion feed after FBA receives inventory. Any pilot would use seller-entered lot data and clearly labeled forecasts, without pretending Amazon identifies the exact lot that sold.
Two-minute pilot survey
Help shape what we explore
We are looking for operators with a real expiration-loss problem, not collecting a generic waitlist. Your answers help us judge whether this is worth building.
Proposed workflow
From inbound lot to early warning
This is the workflow we are evaluating, not a description of a feature available today.
Record the lot at inbound
Associate a lot code, expiration date, and quantity with an FBA inbound shipment before the units leave your warehouse.
Estimate sell-through risk
Combine demand forecasts, inbound timing, and known lot quantities to estimate whether date-sensitive stock is likely to sell in time.
Act before value disappears
Surface proposed alerts for lots that may need a promotion, removal order, replenishment adjustment, or closer review.
Why we are testing demand first
Date tracking sounds simple until lots are split across inbound shipments, FBA receiving changes quantities, and Amazon reports sales without authoritative lot depletion.
Before committing engineering time, we want to know which sellers feel the pain, how they handle it today, what expiration losses cost, and which alert would change an operating decision.
If the evidence is strong, qualified operators will be the first people we contact about a focused pilot.