The right time for inventory optimisation is now.

The key points

  • Excess stock costs every month: tied-up capital, warehouse space, write-downs. Waiting makes none of it cheaper.
  • Example: €5m inventory, of which 20% excess stock, 10% cost of capital rate. That's €100,000 per year, just for holding it.
  • The usual reasons for postponing (ERP project, data quality, no time) argue, on closer inspection, for starting.
  • The entry point is a potential analysis on your real data, not a big project.

What does waiting cost you?

Excess stock isn't a resting asset, but a running item. The tied-up capital costs your cost of capital rate, the goods cost space and handling, and with every month the risk grows that the excess stock becomes a write-down case. At €5m inventory, 20% excess stock and 10% cost of capital, that's €100,000 a year, before a single pallet is scrapped. How to quantify your own excess stock is shown by the article on stock types.

Why do most people wait anyway?

How do you get started without a big project?

In three stages, each with its own insight value: first the working capital calculator with your key figures, ten minutes, a rough ballpark. Then the potential analysis at article level, which turns the ballpark into solid figures. Only after that do you decide on a project, with numbers instead of guesses on the table.

How much liquidity is tied up in your warehouse?

30 minutes, your numbers, concrete answers. No pitch deck, no sales pressure.

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