We are selling in Europe under the Pan-EU program, with Germany as our main location. From there, Amazon distributes to other countries. We encountered the following situation: In Multi-Country Inventory, all stock is displayed in Italy, but in Manage Inventory for Germany, we see all stock there. Interestingly, the report shows stock only in Italy, but the sales are happening in Germany. This raises the following questions:
How can we know exactly where and how much stock we have? This information would help us understand where and how to push the goods.
If I disconnect BIL and the program from Italy, will the stock there be moved back to Germany?
What you are seeing is a common Pan-EU reporting inconsistency where different Seller Central views reflect different “ownership” and “fulfilment” logic rather than the physical reality in real time, so the most accurate way to see exactly where your units are physically stored is to use the Inventory Event Detail report and the FBA Inventory Age or Daily Inventory History reports, which break stock down by fulfillment center country rather than by marketplace, whereas Manage Inventory often shows sellable quantity allocated to a marketplace like Germany even if the units are physically sitting in Italy and being cross-border fulfilled.
Under Pan-EU, Amazon freely redistributes inventory based on demand forecasting, and sales in Germany can be fulfilled from Italian FCs without you seeing a clean one-to-one mapping in standard views, so pushing goods is generally done via pricing, ads, and demand signals at the marketplace level rather than by trying to target a specific country’s physical stock.
If you disconnect Italy from Pan-EU or disable BIL for Italy, Amazon does not automatically move stock back to Germany, as removal or rebalancing decisions are entirely at Amazon’s discretion, and existing inventory usually remains where it is and may still be used for cross-border fulfillment unless you explicitly create removal or transfer orders, which can be costly and slow.
In practice, sellers should assume Amazon will keep inventory where it optimizes network costs, use detailed inventory reports to understand physical placement, and focus on marketplace-level demand generation rather than trying to manually control country-level stock movement within Pan-EU.