Amazon India: Sales change by -2.8% [113L-→110L]
Weekday DRR change -2.8%[3.58L DRR→3.48L DRR]
Weekend DRR change -2.1%[3.81L DRR→3.72L DRR]
Conclusion: No Impact of days or weekday/weekend effect
Sufficient-Inventory SKUs Sales Unchanged [~85L]
Organic Sales change by -2%[49L→48L]
Ad Sales change by +3%[36L→37L]
Conclusion: No overall change in 191 SKUs where there was no OOS situation (< 1 day) at RK World
Low Inventory SKUs Sales change by -12% [28L→24.6L]
Organic Sales change by -16.6% [14.8L →12.3L] Vendor Organic Sales change by -28% [13.7L→9.8L] Page Views change of -33% [65K→44K]
CVR change of 3%[7.6%→7.8%]
ASP change of 3%[279→288]
Seller Organic Sales change by +140% [1.1L→2.5L] Page Views change of 58%[14.7K→23.2K] Reason: Buybox shifting to Seller for OOS SKUs [20% → 35%]
Why did it not cover all the product views lost? Hypothesis: Seller listed product has higher price and longer delivery rates, thus likely having poorer CTRs, hence lesser page views
CVR change of 135%[1.24%→2.91%] Hypothesis: Lack of option of RK world, forces buyers to buy from Seller
ASP change of -35%[570→370]* Ad Sales change by -7%[13.2L→12.3L] Vendor Ads Sales change by -18% [11.4L→9.4L] Impressions change of -23%[55L→42L] Reason: Buybox shifting to Seller for OOS SKUs [20% → 35%]
CVR change of +12%[0.08%→0.09%] Hypothesis: Likely SKU mix shift effect ASP change of -4%[263→253] Seller Ads Sales change by +56% [1.9L→2.9L] Impressions change of +27% [19.2L→24.5L] Reason: Buybox shifting to Seller for OOS SKUs [20% → 35%]
Why did it not cover the vendor impression gap? Likely same bidding but lesser relevance score of seller central buybox pushing it down the ranks
CVR change of +25%[0.033%→0.042%] Hypothesis: Lack of option of RK world, forces buyers to buy from Seller
ASP change of -2%[290→285] TLDR: All Sales (-)change is driven by RK World Low-Inventory situation in Jan (41 SKUs). Seller tried to compensate for it(+2.5L) but couldn’t offset vendor loss (-6L) completely.