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Inventory is the most seductive way for a new product business to run out of money while looking busy. Boxes of stock feel like progress and behave like a leak: cash sits inside them until it sells, storage and insurance quietly add up, and dead stock eventually sells at a loss or not at all. The classic new-business mistake is ordering months of stock for a product nobody has bought yet. The sane alternative is small test batches, fast reorders, and one simple number — stock turn, or how many times a year your inventory sells through — watched the way a pilot watches fuel.
How much stock to actually buy when you are new — the cash-trap of over-ordering, the maths of stock turns, and a sane first inventory system.
Enough to test and reorder fast — not enough to fill a garage. Bulk discounts only save money if the stock sells; a fast reorder at a slightly higher price beats a cheap pile that sits for six months.
Retail businesses typically aim for 4-12 turns a year — that is, your average inventory sells through every 1-3 months. Single-digit turns mean cash is stuck in boxes, and the holding costs (storage, insurance, markdowns) often run 20-30% of inventory value a year.
Every item tracked in and out, a reorder point ('when stock hits X, order Y'), and a review date for anything unsold after 90 days. A spreadsheet beats no system; the goal is knowing what you own and what it is worth.
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