Expiry and dead stock
Find the money already sitting on the shelf and about to vanish
A write-off costs twice: first the purchase, then the disposal. This is about seeing the risk early enough to act.
- who it fits
- Retail · Distribution
- how often
- weekly; more often for short-dated groups
- roles
- category manager, warehouse director, finance
- what it moves
- Inventory · Cash
How it works today
- The problem surfaces at stocktake, or at the till when a customer refuses.
- Goods expire in one location while another is short of them.
- Cash in dead stock is nowhere counted, so nobody discusses it.
How it runs here
- 1Compute the cash frozen in items with no movement
- 2Estimate what will not sell in time at the current rate
- 3Propose a transfer to where the item does sell
- 4If a transfer does not save it — markdown or return to the supplier
- 5Block further purchasing of the item
What data is needed
- Stock and movement per location
- Item cost
- Batches and expiry dates, where the accounting holds them
Who decides
Markdowns and returns are commercial decisions confirmed by a person. The system prepares the numbers and the document.
How it is measured
Through a prevented-loss ledger: what was at risk, what was done, how it ended.
Show us one critical process. We will show how it runs here.
We look at your cycle: how an order is assembled today, who decides, where time leaks and what the system takes over.