Unlock the Power of OPI’s Reporting Capabilities

Managing inventory and sales data is one of the most critical challenges faced by multi-channel eCommerce sellers. Without the right insights, businesses risk stockouts, overstocks, or missing key growth opportunities. OPI’s advanced reporting feature provides a solution by offering a suite of reports designed to help sellers maintain control over their inventory, financials, and operations. In this blog, we’ll explore each report in detail and explain how it can benefit your eCommerce business.

1. Data Dump Report

The Data Dump Report in OPI provides a comprehensive view of your inventory, offering key insights into product information, warehouse data, marketplace-specific metrics, and financials. It includes details like Product SKU, ASIN, title, and custom tags, delivering a thorough breakdown of each product. This report aggregates manufacturer quantity-to-order, helping you understand overall replenishment needs. Additionally, it includes warehouse data on inbound and outbound transfers and Amazon-specific metrics like FBA units, sales velocity, stock status, and replenishment needs. Financial metrics such as COGS, FBA fees, referral fees, and gross profit further assist sellers in making informed decisions about inventory and profitability.

Why it’s useful:
The Data Dump Report is indispensable for those who want to perform custom analyses or track granular inventory details. By providing a raw yet organized dataset, sellers can better understand sales trends, stock needs, and financial performance, optimizing overall inventory management and streamlining operations.

2. Financial Report

The Financial Report in OPI offers a complete view of your business’s financial health, tracking key metrics such as sales, expenses, and profit margins across all sales channels. This report allows filtering by product and sales channel, enabling customization and export for further analysis.

Key features include detailed insights on stock status, inbound orders, and potential gross sales, with specific data on Amazon sales price, additional product costs (including shipping and handling), platform fees, and storage costs. It calculates potential profit per unit after all expenses, outlines total cost of goods sold, total sales fees, and overall potential profit, and suggests quantities to replenish.

Why it’s useful:
This Financial Report empowers sellers to track expenses, analyze profitability, and make data-driven decisions to optimize pricing and reduce costs. By offering a granular view of financial metrics, it helps streamline operations and ensure sustained profitability across all sales channels.

3. Inventory Status Report

The Inventory Status Report in OPI provides a comprehensive view of your stock levels across various Amazon marketplaces. This report helps you manage inventory effectively, avoiding stockouts or overstocking, and offers detailed insights into available inventory, inbound stock, and inventory transfers between fulfillment centers.

Key features include metrics like available Inventory, which ensures you have enough stock to meet customer demand, and Inbound Inventory, which helps you anticipate when new stock will be available for sale. The report also tracks Fulfillment Center Transfers and Processing, ensuring efficient stock distribution. Additionally, it monitors Customer Orders to keep you informed about units ordered but not yet fulfilled, as well as insights into FBA Sales Velocity and 30-Day Sales Performance.

Why it’s useful:
This report is essential for eCommerce sellers managing inventory across multiple marketplaces. By providing real-time data on stock levels, sales velocity, and replenishment needs, the Inventory Status Report ensures you have the right amount of stock available to meet demand, streamline fulfillment, and maximize sales opportunities.

4. Replenishment Report

The Replenishment Report in OPI is crucial for effective inventory management, designed to help you maintain optimal stock levels, minimize storage costs, and capitalize on sales opportunities.

This report offers insights into total Inventory and inbound Stock, tracking FBA Sales Velocity and 30-Day Sales to forecast demand. The Suggested Replenishment Amount feature uses sales trends and stock levels to recommend how much inventory to reorder, while the Days Remaining metric estimates how long your current stock will last.

Why it’s useful:
By providing insights into sales velocity and stock levels, the Replenishment Report helps prevent stockouts and excess inventory, allowing you to streamline replenishment, meet demand, and optimize profitability.

5. Inbound Shipments Report

The Inbound Shipment Report is essential for effective inventory planning, offering a comprehensive overview of all incoming shipments. This report enables you to manage stock levels efficiently, prevent stockouts, and ensure a smooth flow of goods to your warehouses or fulfillment centers.

It includes crucial information such as Amazon ID for tracking SKUs, Shipment Name for easier organization, and a Status feature that provides real-time updates on each shipment’s progress. Additionally, SKU and FNSKU details clarify the products on their way, while Quantity Shipped and Quantity Received columns help identify discrepancies. The Sent Date and Received Date track transit times, and the Expected Receipt Date offers insight into when stock will be available.

Why it’s useful:
By utilizing the Inbound Shipment Report, you can effectively track and manage incoming stock, ensuring your inventory is always current and ready for sale. This proactive approach helps maintain optimal stock levels and improves overall inventory management.

6. Sales Summary Report

The Sales Summary Report in OPI offers a detailed overview of your sales performance, enabling you to analyze trends, identify top-selling products, and refine business strategies. Insights from this report allow you to make informed decisions that drive growth and optimize sales channels.

Key features include Start Date and End Date columns to define the sales data timeframe, SKU and ASIN for unique product identification, and a Description column for quick product identification. Other features of the report include, price, country, currency and a total consilidated colum showing revenue generated from the sale of each item.

Why it’s useful:
By utilizing the Sales Summary Report, you gain valuable insights into sales performance, allowing you to identify trends and make data-driven decisions that enhance your overall business strategy.

7. Forecasting Report

The Forecasting Report in OPI is crucial for effective sales strategy and inventory management. It helps you anticipate demand, ensuring optimal stock levels to avoid overstocking or understocking. By analyzing future sales trends, you can make informed, data-driven decisions that drive growth and efficiency.

This report is exported in .csv format, allowing for easy analysis in Excel or Google Sheets. You can customize it with product filters and choose to view projections by individual months or in aggregate for long-term trends.

Key features include Product (SKU for accurate projections), ASIN and Title for cross-referencing, and 3, 6, and 12-Month Projections for sales forecasts, either total or marketplace-specific.

Why it’s useful:
By utilizing the Forecasting Report, you gain valuable insights into future sales, ensuring your inventory aligns with market demand.