Inventory isn’t just stock. It’s cash sitting on your shelves A distribution center I heard about last year was sitting on 11 weeks of a particular SKU because their cycle counts kept coming back clean. Clean on paper. In reality, a slotting change six months earlier had split the product across two locations, and nobody had reconciled it. Eleven weeks of carrying cost, tied up in units they thought they needed to reorder. They didn't. This is the part that doesn't show up in