It never announces itself. It just sits there, at full cost, until a markdown does the announcing. How to catch dead stock by sell-through, not by age.
Age tells you what's old. Sell-through tells you what's dead. Finding the SKUs that quietly stopped selling, before they age into a discount.
Volume flatters, sell-through grades. The best-seller in this assortment moved only 44% of what was bought. How to read the number that says whether a buy actually worked.
A tiny head of the assortment earns most of the sales, and it's the stock you're most likely to run out of. Find the vital few, by units and by value, and protect them.
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