How Much Is Dead Stock Costing You? Calculate the Carrying Cost
What is the dollar value of inventory in your warehouse right now that hasn't moved in 90+ days — and what is the carrying cost (storage, capital, insurance, depreciation) on that pile every month?
Why this question earns its place.
Inventory is cash sitting on shelves. Dead stock, slow-moving SKUs, and the items you keep reordering out of habit rather than data consume working capital and warehouse space that could be deployed on winners. This diagnostic calculates the true carrying cost of your inventory and identifies the SKUs dragging down your return on invested capital.
Inside your deliverable.
A direct answer, in the first paragraph.
No buildup, no throat-clearing. The verdict is on page one, stated the way an experienced operator would state it — number-grounded and specific to the business.
The math, worked out in public.
Back-of-envelope calculations with the assumptions labelled so you can stress-test them. Revenue, margin, and risk magnitudes stated in dollar terms — not hand-wavy percentages.
Evidence cited from the public web.
Claims are grounded in the business's homepage, product pages, reviews, pricing, social proof, and anything else publicly visible. No hallucinated internals.
A "take to your team this week" close.
Every report ends with one concrete experiment or conversation you can run in the next 7 days — the kind of low-cost test that converts opinion into data.
What an answer looks like.
Excerpt · gigdataserv.com
"You're leaving 15-25% of revenue on the table by pricing like a commodity seller when you're actually selling insurance against downtime…
… multiply this across 55,000 items sold over 23 years … $550,000 in cumulative revenue left on the table."
- 01 · Specific, not generic.
- 02 · Number-grounded in dollar terms.
- 03 · Cites public evidence — no fabricated internals.
- 04 · Ends with a 7-day experiment.
- 05 · $5. One report. No subscription.