Glossary Table

Description and location of different metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs)

 

Vendor KPIs

 

KPI

Description

Where to find

Average price

Average price per unit for corresponding time range

Ordered Revenue / Shipped Revenue / Shipped COGS Drill-Down (Vendor)

Company Margin (Vendor)

The Company Margin is a percentage number and describes the relative amount of profit the company is earning by selling the products. It is calculated as follows: (Net Received Revenue - Fixed Cost) /Net Received Revenue

Net Pure Profit Margin (Vendor)

ASIN Focus (Vendor)

Net Profit Margin or Amazon Margin


 

(Total Revenue - Net Received Revenue) / Total Revenue

 

Margin (Vendor)

ASIN Focus (Vendor)

Net Pure Profit Margin


 

The percentage of profit generated from Revenue after accounted for all expenses, costs, and open cash flow items. Calculated like this: (Product Revenue - Product COGS - Vendor Funded Coop) / Product Revenue

 

Margin (Vendor)

ASIN Focus (Vendor)

Net Pure Profit Margin for current period, prior period and last year

The percentage of profit generated from Revenue after accounted for all expenses, costs, and open cash flow items. Calculated like this: (Product Revenue - Product COGS - Vendor Funded Coop) / Product Revenue

Margin (Vendor)

Net Received Revenue


 

 

Net Received Revenue is a measure of the vendor's profit on Amazon. Net Revenue is the revenue a company earns in a given period after any discounts or allowances are factored.

 

 

Net Received Revenue and Units (Vendor)

ASIN Focus Overview (Vendor)

Vendor Business Summary 

Net Received Trend

Sales trend for a given period of time

Net Received Revenue and Units (Vendor)

ASIN Focus (Vendor)

Vendor Business Summary 

Net Received Units


 

Sales of units which are released for sale and are not returned

 

Net Received Revenue (Vendor)

ASIN Focus (Vendor)

Open Purchase Order Quantity

Represents the number of units currently on order

Inventory (Vendor)

 

 

Ordered Revenue Amount


 

 

 

 

 

The Ordered Revenue is the revenue that Amazon generates with your products. "Ordered" refers to the fact that the goods have been ordered but not yet shipped by Amazon.

 

 

 

Ordered Revenue / Shipped Revenue / Shipped COGS Drill-Down (Vendor)

Vendor Business Report Overview

Vendor Business Summary 

ASIN Focus (Vendor)

Ordered Revenue Trend


 

Trend compared to the previous week

 

Vendor Business Summary 

ASIN Focus (Vendor)

Prior Period


 

The difference in revenue between the selected period and the previous period

 

Net Received Revenue (Vendor)

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor)

Sellable On Hand Units / Quantity

The number of items in stock

Inventory (Vendor)

Shipped COGS Amount


 

The Shipped COGS is the Cost Of Goods Shipped incurred by Amazon when purchasing the item from the vendor.

 

Ordered Revenue / Shipped Revenue / Shipped COGS Drill-Down (Vendor)

Business Summary (Vendor)

Shipped Revenue Amount

The Shipped Revenue is the revenue that Amazon generates with your products, however, at a different point in time. It is based on Amazon's selling price to the customer and the time the product was shipped to the customer

Ordered Revenue / Shipped Revenue / Shipped COGS Drill-Down (Vendor)

Business Summary (Vendor)

Shipped Units

Number of Units Shipped

Ordered Revenue / Shipped Revenue / Shipped COGS Drill-Down (Vendor)

Unique Visitors

Displays the change in Unique Visitors compared to the previous period

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor)

 

 

 

 

Seller KPIs

 

KPI

Description

Where to find

Buy Box Percentage

A metric that shows how often your product shows up in the Amazon Buy Box. If a product is viewed 100 times and your product shows up in the Buy Box 50 of those times, then your Buy Box percentage is 50%

Sales, Units Ordered Page Views (Seller)

Company Margin (Seller)

The Company Margin is a percentage number and describes the relative amount of profit the company is earning by selling the products. It is calculated as follows: (Net Received Price - Fixed Cost - Variable Cost) / Net Received Price

 

Margin (Seller)

ASIN Focus (Seller)

Page Views


 

 

 

 

 

Number of times a Product Detail Page is viewed

 

 

 

 

 

Sales, Units Ordered & Page Views (Seller)

Business Summary (Seller)

Portfolio Analyzer (Seller)

Traffic Diagnostic (Seller)

Sales


 

 

The sales that were achieved in the timeframe

 

 

Business Summary (Seller)

Sales, Units Ordered & Page Views (Seller)

ASIN Focus (Seller)

Sales Trend

Sales trend compared to the previous period

ASIN Focus (Seller)

Sales, Units Ordered & Page Views (Seller)

Business Summary (Seller)

Total Ordered Product Sales


 

The amount of Ordered Product Sales, calculated by multiplying the price of ordered items and the number of units sold for the selected time period.

 

Sales, Units Ordered Page Views (Seller)

Business Summary (Seller)

Trend Page Views

Displays the difference of Page Views between the selected time period and the previous time period

Sales, Units Ordered Page Views (Seller)

Units Ordered

The number of individual units or items ordered. For example, 3 copies of Book A and 4 copies of Book B is 7 units ordered

Sales, Units Ordered Page Views (Seller)

Business Summary (Seller)

Units Ordered Trend

Trend compared to the previous period

Seller Business Summary 

Units Trend

Displays the difference of Units Ordered between the selected time period and the previous time period

Sales, Units Ordered Page Views (Seller)

 

 

 

 

General KPIs

 

KPI

Description

Where to find

AAGR


 

 

 

 

Average Annual Growth Rate - The measure of an average annual growth rate over time.

 

 

 

 

Ordered Revenue & Units (Vendor)

Net Received Revenue and Units (Vendor)

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

A+/A+ premium


 

 

Indicates whether A+ or A+ Premium Tool is used to create the content

 

 

Content Dashboard (Vendor/Seller)

Content Monitor (Vendor/Seller)

ACoS


 

Advertising Cost of Sales: indicates the ratio of ad spend to targeted sales and is calculated by this formula: ACoS = Ad Spend ÷ Sales

 

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

Ad Sales

Revenue on advertising

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

ASIN Focus (Vendor/Seller)

Ad Spend


 

Advertising expenditure

 

 

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Paid and Organic Visibility (Vendor/Seller)

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

ASIN Focus (Vendor/Seller)

Ad Spend / Sell out

The ratio between advertisement cost and sales to end customers

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Portfolio Analyzer (Vendor/Seller)

 

Ad Sales Share

 

Revenue earned with promoted products (last 14 days) divided by the total revenue earned

ASIN Focus  (Vendor/Seller)

Ad Spend Trend

Indicates how much was spent on advertisement in comparison to the previous period

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

Aged 90+ Days

The number of sellable units that have been in the fulfillment center for the last 0–90 days

Net Received Revenue & Units (Vendor)

Inventory (Vendor/Seller)

 

Amazon Margin


 

 

 

(Total Revenue - Net Received Revenue) / Total Revenue

 

 

Vendor Business Report Overview

ASIN Focus (Vendor/Seller)

Margin (Vendor/Seller)

AMGR/AWGR

Average Monthly/Weekly Growth Rate - The measure of an average monthly/weekly growth rate over time.

Ordered Revenue & Units (Vendor)

Net Received Revenue and Units (Vendor)

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

 

Attributed Units Ordered


 

Units that were ordered due to advertising

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

Average PDP Ad Score

Average Product Detail Page Advertising Score per ASIN over selected period of time

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

Avg. SFR


 

Average Search Frequency Rank: A relative ranking metric by Amazon which indicates the popularity of a search term in the Amazon search on a scale from 1 - 600.000 (1 = most popular; 600.000 = less popular; > 600.000 = not tracked, least popular)

Paid and Organic Visibility (Vendor/Seller)

Bullet points

 

How many bullet points are there in the description?

Content Score (Vendor/Seller)

CAGR

Compound Annual Growth Rate - The measure of an annual growth rate over time.

 

Advertising Vendor/Seller)

Net Received Revenue and Units  (Vendor)

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

Clicks

The amount of clicks on your product

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller) 

CMGR/CWGR

Compound Annual Growth Rate - The measure of an monthly/weekly growth rate over time.

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Net Received Revenue and Units (Vendor)

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

Content Score

A numerical value that ranges from 0 to 100, representing the quality of the content and its relevance to a given keyword

Content Score (Vendor/Seller)

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

Conversion Rate


 

Percentage of glance views that have sold a product as a result.

CVR = Total Orders / Total Clicks x 100%

 

Sales, Units Ordered Page Views (Seller)

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

Portfolio Analyzer (Vendor/Seller)

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

ASIN Focus (Vendor/Seller)

Conversion Rate Trend


 

 

 

 

Displays the difference of the Conversion Rate between the selected time period and the previous time period.

CVR Trend (%)  = CVR in period 2 / CVR in period 1 - 1

 

 

 

 

Sales, Units Ordered Page Views (Seller)

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor)

Portfolio Analyzer (Vendor/Seller)

ASIN Focus (Vendor/Seller)

CPC

Cost-per-Click: The amount you have to pay in advertising for one click on your product

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

CTR

Click-Through Rate: measures the number of clicks advertisers receive on their ads per number of impression.

CTR = Number of Klicks / Number of Impressions x 100%

 

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

Demand Side Platform

Programmatic Advertising on Third Party Website

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

ECPM

Effective Cost per Mille is how much an advertiser pays for an ad space per unit of 1,000 ad impressions

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Glance Views


 

Number of times a product detail page is viewed

 

Inventory (Vendor/Seller)

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

Business Summary  (Vendor/Seller)

Vendor Portfolio Analyser (Vendor/Seller)

ASIN Focus (Vendor/Seller)

Glance Views Trend


 

 

Displays the difference of Glance Views between the selected time period and the previous time period.

 

 

 

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

Vendor Portfolio Analyser (Vendor/Seller)

ASIN Focus (Vendor/Seller)

Images


 

How many images are uploaded?

 

Content Score (Vendor/Seller)

Content Monitor (Vendor/Seller)

Inventory Level (Units)


 

Optimal inventory levels are the ideal quantities of products that should be in a fulfillment center at any given time. By optimizing inventory levels, you can reduce the risk of common inventory issues, from high storage costs to out-of-stock items.

 

Net Received Revenue and Units (Vendor)

Inventory Dashboard (Vendor/Seller)

Inventory Level / Quantity 
Stock Units


 

The number of items in stock

 

Inventory (Vendor/Seller)

ASIN Focus (Vendor/Seller)

Keyword Segmentation

Focuses on taking large lists of keywords and organizing them into targeted groups to create great landing pages for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or PPC

Paid and Organic Visibility (Vendor/Seller)

New-To-Brand Purchases

Number of Purchases by customers, who haven't bought a product from a certain brand.

360° DSP Report

New-To-Brand of Total Purchases

The Ratio between Purchases made by new customers and Purchases made by already existing customers.

360° DSP Report

New-To-Brand Ad Sales

Number of Purchases by new customers, resulting from your Ads.

360° DSP Report

Ordered Units


 

 

 

Number of Units Ordered

 

 

 

Inventory (Vendor/Seller)

Ordered Revenue & Units (Vendor)

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

Organic Visibility


 

“Organic” means visibility of products that are the result of an Amazon search through the Amazon algorithm.

 

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

Visibility (Vendor/Seller)

Overall Vendor Lead Time Days


 

The time from when a purchase order is placed until the goods are ready and available to sell or ship off the shelf

 

Inventory (Vendor/Seller)

Paid Visibility


 

Paid means visibility of products that appear above organic listings and are marked with “sponsored”.

 

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

Visibility (Seller/Vendor)

PDP Ad Score

 

Product Detail Page Advertising Score per ASIN over selected period of time

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

Product description


 

How many characters does the description have and how does it compare to the benchmark?

 

Content (Vendor/Seller)

Content Monitor (Vendor/Seller)

ROAS

Return on Advertising Spend: Amount of revenue the business earns for each Dollar/Euro it spends on advertising: ROAS = Ad Sales ÷ Cost

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

Sponsored Brands

Brand Advertising on Amazon

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Sponsored Display

Display Advertising on Amazon

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Sponsored Product

Product Advertising on Amazon

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Sponsored Video

Brand Video Advertising on Amazon

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Target ACoS

Target ACoS number we would like to achieve in order to run  profitable campaigns. If the ACoS is less than the product margin, the campaign is profitabl

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Target ROAS


 

The average conversion value (for example Revenue) the company would like to get for each dollar spent on ads

Advertising (Vendor/Seller)

Title length (Benchmark)


 

How many characters does the title have and how does it compare to the benchmark?

 

Content (Vendor/Seller)

Traffic from Advertising


 

 

Number of clicks over period of time per specific sponsored brand, campaign, product, video or Demand Side platform (DSP)

 

 

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

Business Summary (Vendor/Seller)

Trend PDP Ad Score


 

Trend of Product Detail Page Advertising Score per ASIN over selected period of time in comparison with previous time period

 

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor/Seller)

Unhealthy Units


 

Excess inventory on the last day of the selected period based on forecast demand

 

Net Received Revenue and Units (Vendor)

Inventory (Vendor/Seller)

Unique Visitors

Displays the change in Unique Visitors compared to the previous period

Traffic Diagnostic (Vendor)

Visibility Share

Number of company ASINs divided by the total number of ASINs

Paid and Organic Visibility  (Vendor/Seller)