Dead Stock Cost Calculator
Quantify the full cost of unsold inventory: carrying cost, opportunity cost, markdown erosion, and liquidation loss. Dead stock is silent margin destruction, put a number on it.
The real cost of inventory sitting still
Quantify the full cost of unsold inventory: carrying cost, opportunity cost, markdown erosion, and liquidation loss. Dead stock is silent margin destruction, put a number on it.
How it is calculated
- Carrying cost = units x COGS x annual holding rate (storage, capital, insurance) / 12, per month held.
- Opportunity cost = units x COGS x the annual return you could earn if the capital were freed / 12, per month.
- Total cost of inaction = carrying plus opportunity cost over the full expected hold.
- Disposal options compare what each exit recovers against the stock's COGS, and whether that loss is smaller than the cost of holding.
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