Identify stock risk earlier, understand what is driving it and coordinate the commercial actions needed to improve sell-through without sacrificing margin unnecessarily.
They are still not selling. You need to know whether to move them, mark them down, or hold them. Every option needs a different team to approve, and the discussion starts from the symptom, not the cause.
You need to turn ageing risk into action while there is still margin to save — not just a markdown to manage.
“By the time we agree on the cause of slow stock, the best commercial option is already gone.”
Availability and stock productivity are not opposing goals to be traded blindly. Your mandate is to hold both, and to make the trade explicit whenever it has to be made.
Stock where demand is, without buying service level with capital that never converts.
Turns, cover and cash released — measured at the level where interventions actually happen.
Risk recognised while price, transfer and visibility are still viable options.
Inventory actions that need another team's approval, sequenced rather than negotiated ad hoc.
By the time a line appears in a static ageing report, the commercially attractive interventions have usually expired.
Emerging inventory risk
Stock, velocity, margin, lifecycle
By financial exposure
Transfer, price or promotion
Routed to the right owner
Within value thresholds
Orders and prices written back
Sell-through and exposure
The indicators that show whether risk is falling and whether interventions are landing early enough to matter.
Tinkery reads the operational stack and coordinates the commercial teams whose approval an inventory action needs.
The same commercial context, translated into the decisions each function owns.
Bring a category with ageing exposure and we will walk through detection, diagnosis and intervention.