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Dead Stock Exposure Calculator

Three numbers most multi-branch distributors have never seen calculated simultaneously — monthly capital drag, cross-branch recovery potential, and the cost of doing nothing for 90 days.

Your inventory profile

$28M
2300
14%
050
8%
030
4%
015
12
2150
1.2%/mo
0.53
18%
040

Inventory health breakdown

Active inventory
$20.7M74.0%
Slow-moving (90 days+)
$3.9M14.0%
At-risk (180 days+)
$2.2M8.0%
Dead stock (24 months+)
$1.1M4.0%

Your three numbers

Number 1 — Current Capital Drag

$108K / month

Your dead and aging stock is costing you $108K per month in holding costs, depreciation, and opportunity cost — capital that could be redeployed into fast-moving inventory. Annualised: $1.3M/yr.

Holding cost

$58K/mo

Depreciation

$22K/mo

Opportunity

$11K/mo

Number 2 — Cross-Branch Recovery Estimate

$2.2M$2.0M

Based on distributor benchmarks for 12-branch networks, an estimated $2.2M$2.0M of your aging inventory is likely transfer-eligible — stock sitting idle in one branch that another branch could sell today. Not dead. Just misplaced.

Transfer-eligible (90–180d)

$2.2M$2.0M

Liquidation value (24mo+)

$392K at 35¢

Number 3 — The 90-Day Inaction Cost

$96K

If current patterns continue unchanged for 90 days, an additional $1.3M moves from at-risk into fully dead stock based on your aging velocity — adding $96K in unrecoverable cost on top of your current drag.

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These are benchmark-based estimates. Aztela connects to your ERP and WMS and produces the same three numbers from your actual inventory data — per SKU, per branch, per aging bucket. No commitment. No cost to see it.

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