Built for hardware, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and industrial distributors.
How do distributors get rid of excess inventory? If your dead stock shows up on a P21 or Epicor aging report, you're exactly who this was built for. One shared reality runs across every line of the business, the 365+ column exists in every install, but the stuck stock inside it is different for each of you, and this page names it in your own words.
Distributor inventory only, not sneakers, not vintage fabric. Different internet, same word.
- 0–90 DAYS
- TURNING
- 91–180 DAYS
- SLOWING
- 181–365 DAYS
- STALLED
- 365+ DAYS
- THIS IS YOU
The shared reality
Different racks. The same last column.
Whatever you distribute, the report is the same. Somewhere in your ERP is an aging bucket for stock that hasn't moved in roughly 12 to 18 months, and everyone reading this knows their own turnover math well enough to feel that number in their gut. Industry studies put dead stock at 20–30% of a typical distributor's inventory, a share large enough that no line of the trade is exempt from it.
What changes from one distributor to the next isn't whether the column exists. It's what's sitting in it, and why. The four blocks below name the stuck stock the way you'd name it on your own floor.
Who this is for
Four kinds of distributor. Four kinds of stuck stock.
The discontinued-SKU shelf
A vendor changes a finish, sunsets a line, or reworks a whole catalog, and overnight your clean inventory becomes last-generation stock the counter stopped asking for. Add the seasonal overbuys and the special-order items a customer never came back for, and you've got aisles of perfectly good product nobody is ordering anymore.
Your stuck stock: discontinued SKUs and finish-change leftovers
The spec-change corner
Specs move, codes update, and a fitting or unit that was standard last year is suddenly the wrong one to quote. Then there's the copper-line and fixture stock left over from a job that changed scope, and the model-year units that got superseded before they ever left the rack. It's high-value inventory that quietly aged out of the current spec sheet.
Your stuck stock: spec-change fittings and copper-line leftovers
The code-cycle backlog
Every code cycle quietly obsoletes a category. Devices, breakers, and fixtures that were compliant on the last cycle become the ones an electrician won't pull, and the switch to the current standard leaves the prior generation stranded on your shelves. It's stock that didn't go bad, the rulebook moved out from under it.
Your stuck stock: code-cycle obsolete devices and fixtures
The minimum-order overhang
MRO runs on minimums: you buy the case to serve the one, and the rest sits. Add safety-dated stock inching toward its window, the abrasives and consumables bought for a contract that ended, and the odd-spec parts stocked for a customer who switched suppliers, and the surplus builds a shelf of its own, real money in small, slow-moving lots.
Your stuck stock: minimum-order overhang and safety-date inventory
The test isn't your vertical, it's your aging report. If your dead stock shows up in the 365+ column, in any of these lines, you're who this is for. What ships out is the same across all four: you palletize what's stuck, no manifest, no itemized list, we arrange the truck, and the floor space is back the day it leaves.
The next step
See your shelf on the list? Start with one pallet.
You don't have to be certain it's worth it to find out. Distributors working with us typically recover 3–5× what liquidators pay, but every lot is different, and the honest way to know yours is to send a single pallet and see what comes back. A 15-minute call tells you whether it's worth shipping.