ABC Turnover and Aging
Three related reports answer "which items really matter, and which are just sitting there?" — so you can focus attention (and money) where it counts.
Where to find it: the Reports screen (Advanced analytics).
ABC analysis ranks your items into classes by value/importance — the A items (the vital few that account for most of the value), B (the middle), and C (the trivial many). It's the classic "80/20" lens: a small number of items usually dominate, and they deserve the most careful stock control.
💡 Tip Tighten reorder points and cycle counts on your A items, and relax them on C items — that's where the effort pays off.
Turnover measures how fast stock moves — how often it's used and replaced. High turnover is healthy; very low turnover points at overstocking or things you don't really need.
Aging buckets stock by how long it's sat untouched, and dead-stock detection surfaces the items that haven't moved at all — the candidates to use up, sell, or write off.
Dead-stock reporting is opt-in. Nothing appears on the report until you ask for it, so the list stays a short, meaningful set rather than every item you happen to own.
You can switch it on in two places:
- On a location — open a location and set Dead-stock reporting to Report. Everything stored there, including in its sub-locations, is watched from then on. This is usually the quickest way in: point it at the cupboard or shelf you actually want to keep lean.
- On an individual item — open the item's Dead-stock reporting panel and choose Report.
Both offer the same three choices:
| Choice | What it does |
|---|---|
| Inherit | Follow the location above. This is the default; if nothing above opts in, the item isn't reported. |
| Report | Always watch it, whatever the location says. |
| Ignore | Never watch it, even if its location reports everything stored there. |
An item's own choice always beats its location's, so you can watch a whole cupboard and still exempt the one thing that's meant to sit there untouched.
An item counts as dead once it has gone unmoved for the idle threshold. The default lives in Settings → Reports → Dead-stock threshold (90 days out of the box).
Individual locations can override it: open a location and set its own Idle threshold. That applies to everything inside it, sub-locations included, unless one of those sets its own. Leave it blank to use the value from above. This is what lets deep storage only raise a flag after a year while a workbench goes stale in a month.
ℹ️ Note The threshold and the opt-in are independent — a location can set a house threshold for its contents without switching reporting on for them.
💡 Tip A regular glance at dead stock keeps your inventory honest — it's easy to accumulate things you no longer need, and this is how you find them.
- Reports overview — the full suite.
- Valuation & spend — the value behind ABC.
- Sales & disposals — clearing dead stock.