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Excess and dead stock

Free up working capital from excess stock

Axyo warns you about excess before it arrives and slow stock while it still has value, without hurting service.

Get your free Excess Inventory AssessmentHow it works
One business, one yearIllustrative

An electrical distributor with about $250M in revenue

Today
$0tied up in excess stock last year
$2.1Mworking capital freed up with Axyo

 

What caused it
24%of excess stock is now dead stock1
45%of distributors are stocking up against tariffs2
+15 daysmore inventory than before the pandemic3
$616Bof excess inventory at North America’s largest companies6
The life of a purchase

Where stock turns into excess, and how Axyo catches it

Sample business · illustrative
What Axyo does at each stage
When do you find out?

The later you find excess, the less you get back

Where do you usually find it today?

Illustrative
See today’s cases for a sample business
Estimate

Estimate what’s at stake for your business

Set your revenue and adjust the assumptions. Your free assessment uses your real numbers.

$250M
$20M$2B
Assumptions

We use a 10% carrying cost, well below the usual 25%. Working capital and yearly savings are shown separately, not added together.

Tied up in stock you won't need$3.0M8% of your inventory
Working capital freed up with Axyo$2.1M70% of that excess, one time
Carrying cost saved$210K0.9% of operating profit, every year
Why it happensGet your own numbers, free
Why it happens

Every dollar of excess has a cause

It builds a little each week, across thousands of items. One in five smaller businesses has the wrong stock in the wrong places.7

Why you hold extra

You hold extra because you can’t see what’s coming

Every blind spot adds safety stock. Turn each one on to see what you no longer need.

Extra stock held just in caseIllustrative

Sample business: a slipping supplier meant $750K of extra stock. With an early warning, $310K.

What your current tools miss

Each one helps. None shows the full picture in time to act.

Sees itPartlyMisses it

More than working capital

More room on your credit line

Banks lend little against stock unsold for a year,5 and borrowing costs more since September.4

Service protected

Your best-selling items stay in stock.

Space in the warehouse

Space is allocated to whatever sells.

What Axyo doesSee a sample assessment
What Axyo does

A warning with the fix, at every stage of a purchase

Axyo watches every item, order, supplier and site continuously. When a risk starts to build, the right person gets the fix and what it’s worth.

Your rules, your call

Axyo recommends, and your team accepts or overrides. Or put it on autopilot, and Axyo acts on its own within your rules.

SettingsExample
ActionHow it runsApplies to
Update reorder pointsRecommendAutopilotAll itemsAll sites
Push out or cancel ordersRecommendAutopilotAll suppliers
Move stock between sitesRecommendAutopilotPhoenix, Dallas, Denver
Sell slow stock earlyRecommendAutopilotExcept contract customers
Warn me above$50,000
Never go below97% fill rate
Buy ahead up to8 weeks
Who gets which warningPurchasingOperationsFinance
How it worksSee a sample assessment
See it work

A sample Excess Inventory Assessment

Three answers, about a week after you send five files. Illustrative

Last 12 months$3.0Mtied up in excess stockBiggest cause: unreliable suppliers, $820KSee where and when Next 12 months$2.1Mof working capital you can keep free, about 70% of last year’s excessMost preventable: unreliable suppliers, $575KSee what you can prevent As of today4 cases$2.34M at risk, most urgent firstAct first on: the main supplier, within 5 daysSee today's cases
The same assessment also found $980K in sales lost to stockouts and $590K in lost margin. See Stockouts and lost sales and Margin leakage.
How it works

From your data to a warning with the fix

Each layer builds on the one before it.

Next: Get started
Get started

Start with a free Excess Inventory Assessment

Results in about a week, live warnings from week two.

Day 1Files

Send five spreadsheet exports. See the list

Week 1Results

Excess by item, with the cause, and today’s early warning cases.

Week 2Review

Go over the results with Axyo and agree on first actions.

Week 2 onWarnings

Ongoing warnings start, and a direct ERP connection replaces the spreadsheets.

To agree on in the first meeting
  • Which sites and product lines to start with
  • Your dollar threshold for warnings
  • Who gets which warnings: purchasing, operations, finance
  • Which actions run on autopilot, and for which items, sites, suppliers and customers
  • Which ERP connection to set up after the spreadsheets

Annual subscription, billed monthly, cancel anytime. The assessment shows the payback before you commit.

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Who benefits

Each team gets what it needs from the same warnings.

Frequently asked questions

We’ve built this before, at enterprise scale

Fortune 100payments company where our founders built the risk, data and customer 360 platforms
1,000+key risk indicators monitored there
Hoursfrom signal to alert
30+data and AI patents held by our founders

See it in your business.

Send five files. In about a week, see how much got tied up last year, where, why, and what you can prevent.

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Sources and notes
  1. 1
    Supply Chain Dive, on Netstock's 2026 survey of more than 150 small and mid-size business customers: dead stock rose from 12% of excess stock in 2024 to 17% in 2025 and 24% in 2026, Oct 1, 2026. Source
  2. 2
    Phocas Software, 2026 Inventory Trends in Wholesale Distribution, a survey of 100+ distribution professionals: 45% are building excess inventory as a protective measure against tariff uncertainty and supply disruption. Source
  3. 3
    PwC Working Capital Study 25/26, Oct 7, 2025: days inventory outstanding at medium-sized listed companies worldwide up 15.0 days (24.2%) since before the pandemic. Source
  4. 4
    Federal Reserve, FOMC statement, Sep 16, 2026: the target range for the federal funds rate was raised by a quarter point, to 3.75% to 4%. Source
  5. 5
    Secured Finance Network glossary: the typical time frame lenders use to define excess inventory is 12 months unsold. Source. ABF Journal, Mar 21, 2024: slow-moving and obsolete inventory is deemed non-lendable and ineligible for the borrowing base. Source
  6. 6
    The Hackett Group, 2026 North American Working Capital Survey, Oct 5, 2026: the 1,000 largest nonfinancial companies headquartered in North America (FY2025 results) have a $616B inventory opportunity, up 6%, measured against top-quartile performance in each industry. Source
  7. 7
    Netstock 2024 Inventory Management Benchmark Report, small and mid-size businesses under $250M in revenue: 20% have the wrong mix of inventory and excessive stock in the wrong locations. Source
  8. 8
    The sample business in Axyo’s value model: about $250M in revenue, $37.5M of inventory, and $3.0M (8% of inventory) tied up in excess stock. About 70% of that can be kept from building up.
  9. 9
    U.S. Census Bureau, Monthly Wholesale Trade: durable-goods merchant wholesalers hold about 1.6 to 1.7 months of sales in inventory (2025), or about 13 to 14% of annual sales. The estimate uses 15%, from the sample business in Axyo’s value model; change it to match your business. Source
  10. 10
    Lokad, "Inventory Costs": annual carrying cost as a share of inventory value, commonly about 25%. Source
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    The sample business, its sites, items, cases and amounts are illustrative: fictional, with realistic patterns. Your assessment uses your own data and external signals.
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