Short, practical notes on excess inventory and working capital: how it builds, why it stays hidden, and how the right level of stock is set from your own demand.
A buffer set once during an uncertain patch, then never lowered, quietly ties up cash across every SKU. The cost of a one-time setting nobody comes back to.
Read →Two companies can sit on exactly the same industry average and be in opposite positions. The right stock level comes from your own business, not an average of others.
Read →Why excess drifts back after every clean-out, and the three ordinary planning mechanisms that keep refilling the shelf.
Read →The extra days are not dead stock. They are a few days of cover spread thin across the range, quietly tying up cash.
Read →Most of what sits on the shelf is cycle stock, set by how often you order, not how long delivery takes.
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