Stock and working capital

Find the stock that is costing you money

Position, coverage, committed versus available, and the slow-moving lines nobody has looked at in a year.

What you will be able to see

The numbers you can finally trust

Each one exists in your systems today. None of them is currently something you would bet a decision on.

Inventory position: On hand, committed and available, on one definition across every location.
Dead and slow stock: Value sitting still, aged by how long since it last moved.
Coverage: How long current stock lasts at current demand.
Location spread: Where stock is against where it is needed.

What changes

Nothing here is a new metric. It is the one you already care about, made trustworthy.

Why you cannot trust it today

Committed means different things
Whether an open order counts against available stock depends on which system you ask, and the answer changes what anyone thinks they can sell.
Slow stock hides in the total
A healthy aggregate can conceal a long tail of lines that have not moved in a year, and that tail is where the cash is trapped.
Multiple locations, no single view
Warehouses and third-party sites each report their own way, and rolling them up by hand costs more attention than the answer is worth.

What we do about it

One definition of available
One meaning, used by every screen and every overnight check, so what the sales team can promise matches what the warehouse can ship.
Age the stock, not just the value
A screen that ranks lines by how long since they last moved makes the trapped cash visible in a way a total never does.
Sweep it on a schedule
A workflow that raises newly stalled lines each week, so the list stays short enough to act on.

It is the normal case. Each is connected separately and reconciled in the warehouse, which is where the single definition lives.
The engagement focuses on making the current position and its history reliable first. Forecasting sits naturally in the forward roadmap once that foundation exists.

Other measures