Supply Chain Connect has turned up in Vendor Central. Here’s what’s actually in it
2 August 2026
Pete Davis – Senior eCommerce Acceleration Manager
It’s live in the UK and Europe. Most of it is reports you’ve seen before, gathered in one place. One tab is more useful than the rest.
Amazon has added Supply Chain Connect to Vendor Central, without much announcement beyond an email. It puts five reports under one menu – Performance Overview, Inventory Health, Packaging Opportunities, In-Full Delivery and Receive Accuracy – with an Action Centre at the top that sets tasks weekly.
If the name sounds familiar, Seller Central has had a Supply Chain Connect for years, doing more or less the opposite job: it lets you give your own suppliers access to build FBA shipments. Here you’re the supplier, and this is Amazon showing you its version of your performance.
Most of what’s in it you’ll recognise. Confirmation rates, out-of-stock risk, PO fill rates, ASN and label defects. It’s a tidier way of looking at things you could already find.
The Receive Accuracy tab is the exception
There’s a note on that page explaining why its defect rate doesn’t match the one on the Operational Performance Dashboard. The dashboard only counts defects that turned into a chargeback, and that’s the number that sets your rate card. This one counts every defect Amazon has attributed to you at receive, charged or not.
So you can see defects Amazon has recorded against you but hasn’t billed you for, and pick up a problem at receive before it turns into a cost. The detail goes down to defect type and unit numbers, so you can usually work out which shipments caused it.
Where it falls short
The refresh is weekly, but the data runs behind that. Receive Accuracy updated on 26 July was still showing the week to 4 July as its most recent complete period. The Performance Overview scorecard puts July inventory numbers next to delivery defect rates from March on the same screen. It’s fine for trends, less useful if you want to know what happened last week.
One reason to look at the overstock flag
Inventory Health includes a count of ASINs at risk of overstock, which matters more than it did a month ago. The EU ban on destroying unsold clothing, accessories and footwear took effect in July for large companies, so excess stock now has to be sold, donated or prepared for reuse.
Knowing early gives you time to find a route for it – off-price, another market, an outlet. Knowing late leaves you discounting. The tool will tell you what you’re holding. Where it goes is still your problem to solve.
Worth a look, not a rebuild
None of this changes how Vendor Central works. It’s a better front end on data Amazon already held, and in places the lag makes it less useful than the reports it draws from.
If you do one thing with it, open Receive Accuracy and compare its defect rate against the chargeback figure on your Operational Performance Dashboard. The difference between the two is the only genuinely new information here.