Case Study Details

Managing Stockouts & Driving Consistent Growth for a Soft Drink Brand

Overview

A leading Soft Drink brand on Amazon Vendor Central partnered with us in early 2025. While their products enjoyed strong demand and brand recognition, inconsistent stock availability and increasing competition caused fluctuations in sales performance.

Challenge

In June 2025, the brand’s top-selling ASINs went out of stock, creating a sharp risk to revenue.
Stockouts threatened both sales momentum and ad efficiency, with the potential to inflate ACOS and TACOS.
The brand needed a strategy to protect revenue, stabilize ad spend, and shift focus to alternative SKUs until inventory was replenished.
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Our Strategy

✅ Budget Reallocation During Stockouts

Paused campaigns on out-of-stock ASINs.

Redirected ad budgets to secondary SKUs to sustain category visibility and sales.

✅ PPC Optimization

Strengthened Sponsored Products campaigns for in-stock ASINs.

Harvested converting customer search terms and launched new targeted campaigns.

Applied bid controls to maintain ACOS in a competitive soft drink category.

✅ Balanced Growth & Profitability

Protected ACOS and TACOS from inflation during the OOS period.

Optimized placements and focused on conversion-driving traffic sources.

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Performance Results (Jan–Aug 2025)

Total Sales: $444,981

Ad Spend: $63,263

ACOS: 14.2%

Orders: 18,986

Even during the June stockout, sales held at $155K with ACOS just 12.2%.

By July, sales rebounded to $184K+ while maintaining ACOS under 16%.


Key Wins

📉 Kept ACOS under control despite stockouts (14.2% overall).

📈 Sales quickly rebounded post-stockout, hitting $184K in July.

💰 TACOS consistently stayed under 8%, ensuring profitability.

🚀 Successfully shifted ad spend to secondary SKUs to maintain growth momentum.


Conclusion

By proactively reallocating budgets and optimizing PPC campaigns, we helped the Soft Drink brand minimize the impact of out of Stock, protect profitability, and sustain sales growth. With consistent inventory, the brand is now positioned for long-term scaling and category leadership on Amazon.