Identify excess inventory, measure cash tied up above target, estimate annual carrying cost and recovery value, and prioritize the inventory items requiring attention.
Find the inventory tying up the most cash and determine where to act first.
The Industrial Netware Inventory Investment & Overstock Reduction Planner is a self-contained offline browser tool for reviewing excess, slow-moving and inactive inventory.
Enter up to 20 inventory items and establish your preferred days of supply, dead-stock threshold, annual carrying-cost rate and expected recovery rate. The planner calculates inventory exposure and ranks the items requiring attention.
Use the planner to:
- Calculate average daily demand and days of supply
- Determine target inventory quantities
- Identify units held above the selected target
- Measure total on-hand inventory investment
- Calculate cash tied up in excess inventory
- Estimate annual inventory carrying cost
- Estimate potential cash recovery
- Identify possible inventory write-down exposure
- Flag overstock, inactive and dead inventory
- Prioritize items by inventory condition and financial impact
- Record recommended actions and management notes
- Save and reopen inventory plans
- Download a professionally formatted Excel report
- Print or save a management-ready PDF report
Clear guidance is included
The planner contains expandable field instructions, sample inventory data, calculation explanations, inventory-status definitions, and a detailed Quick Start & Field Reference.
Private and self-contained
The planner operates locally in a current desktop browser. No installation, subscription or online account is required. Information entered into the planner is not uploaded to Industrial Netware.
What you receive
- Password-protected customer ZIP
- Inventory Investment & Overstock Reduction Planner
- Quick Start & Field Reference PDF
- Single-Business License PDF
- READ FIRST access and password PDF
Compatibility
Designed for current desktop versions of Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and Firefox. Excel report generation is included. The protected ZIP must be extracted before opening the planner.
Planning notice: Results depend on user inputs and are estimates for planning purposes. Review unusual demand, seasonality, supplier requirements, lead times, open purchase orders and strategic-stock requirements before making inventory decisions.
