Capital is trapped
Value sits in stock that no longer supports current demand, and it stays there until someone builds a way to release it.
INDUSTRIAL INVENTORY RECOVERY
Turn idle inventory into working capital.
Dead Stock connects ERP and warehouse data with qualified B2B demand. It helps manufacturers and distributors detect recoverable surplus, turn incomplete records into approved, market-ready offers, control price and visibility over time, and move a confirmed sale back into the warehouse workflow.
Pilot
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For manufacturers, distributors, industrial buyers and ERP partners.
Illustration of the Dead Stock workflow: an ERP inventory record becomes a flagged candidate, then a complete product identity, then an approved offer with a price floor, then a matched buyer request, and finally a warehouse task with the stock event returned to the seller's system.
THE INVENTORY IS USABLE. THE PROCESS ISN'T.
Valuable stock becomes invisible inside operational systems.
A cancelled project, a changed specification or a procurement buffer can leave usable items without an internal purpose. The intent to sell them is rarely the problem. The absence of a process is.
ERP data is not buyer-ready
Records written for warehouse operations rarely carry the manufacturer, identifier, condition and attributes an external buyer needs to decide.
Manual listing does not scale
Preparing thousands of low-volume items by hand costs more attention than the recovered value justifies.
Bulk liquidation destroys value
Selling a mixed pallet clears the space and recovers a fraction of what the individual items were worth.
Nobody owns the problem
Procurement knows the stock. Finance carries it. Warehouse stores it. Sales is measured on new products. The surplus belongs to no one.
The gap is not the stock. It is the record.
The same item, described two ways. On the left, what the ERP holds. On the right, what a buyer needs before they will commit a purchase order.
Pilot
Internal ERP record
- MAT-004821
- VALVE ASSY 3/4 GREY
- QTY 148 · LOC A-14-3
- Last movement 2024-11-02
- No manufacturer field
- No documentation attached
Market-ready product identity
- Manufacturer and manufacturer part number
- Normalised category and product type
- Technical attributes: size, material, pressure rating, connection
- Condition and packaging state
- Datasheet and photograph attached
- Confidence score, seller-reviewed before publication
Illustrative data
Two panels comparing an internal inventory record with missing manufacturer and identifier fields against the same item after enrichment, with manufacturer, part number, attributes, condition, documents and a seller-reviewed confidence score.
HOW IT WORKS
A controlled path from inventory signal to recovered value.
Seven steps. Every release point is a seller decision, not an automated one.
PilotIn development
- 01
Connect source data
Start from an approved export, a scheduled file drop or an API feed. A controlled data sample is enough.
- 02
Detect recoverable inventory
Apply ageing, movement, safety-stock and demand rules agreed with you to shortlist what could be released.
- 03
Complete product identity
Turn an incomplete record into structured product information a buyer can evaluate, with a confidence score.
- 04
Approve quantity and visibility
You confirm the product identity, the releasable quantity, who can see it and through which channel.
- 05
Price over time
A pricing policy moves the price on your cadence and never below your floor. You can override at any point.
- 06
Match demand
Approved offers are matched against captured buyer requests by normalised identifier and product attributes.
- 07
Fulfil and synchronise
A confirmed sale becomes a warehouse task, and the resulting stock event returns to your system of record.
A seven-step horizontal workflow: connect, detect, enrich, approve, price, match and fulfil, with the approve step highlighted as the seller's decision.
Three ways into the network.
Pilot
You hold surplus inventory
Recover capital from stock that no longer supports demand, without building a second sales operation.
- Start with one category or a controlled data sample
- Keep price floors, visibility and buyer restrictions under your control
- Fits procurement, finance and warehouse rather than cutting across them
You are looking for a specific part
Tell the network exactly what you need, by manufacturer, part number, legacy identifier or BOM.
- Discontinued, obsolete and hard-to-source industrial items
- Verified business sellers, approved product data
- An alert when a matching approved offer appears
You implement ERP systems
The surplus is already in your client's ERP. What is missing is a recovery workflow around it.
- A new use case on data you already map
- A first client pilot can run from a CSV export
- Referral, implementation and technology partner models
PROOF
Pilot in progress
Built inside a working factory, not a slide deck.
Dead Stock is being validated inside EcoReadyBath, an operating manufacturing company, using real ERP and warehouse records under the constraints of live production. The pilot has a defined measurement framework. Results are published when they are verified, and not before.
- Real inventory records, not a demo dataset
- Active production is protected: nothing is released without approval
- A measurement framework is defined and agreed in advance
Eight pilot workflow steps under a Pilot in progress badge, from ingesting controlled records through eligibility analysis, enrichment, identity review, pricing policy, approved offers, buyer flow testing and fulfilment, with a note that no pilot result is shown.
CONTROL
Nothing leaves your warehouse because a model suggested it.
Automated suggestions are suggestions. Every release point is a human decision, and every decision is recorded.
Pilot
Verified businesses only
Participation is limited to verified business entities. There is no consumer side to this network.
Seller approval before publication
Product identity, releasable quantity, visibility and channel are approved by you before anything is published.
Price floors that hold
A pricing policy moves within your floor and your cadence. Nothing prices below the floor, ever.
Controlled visibility
Offers can stay private, be restricted to approved buyers, or be opened to verified businesses. Your choice, per item.
Confidential by default
Cost, book value, price floor and exact warehouse location are never published.
Traceable decisions
Who approved what, at which price, and when, is recorded in an audit log.
CONSEQUENCE
Reuse is the outcome, not the pitch.
When a usable industrial product goes back into service instead of into a write-off, that is a circular outcome. It is the direct consequence of a completed recovery, so it needs no separate campaign. Dead Stock reports the recovery activity that actually happened. It does not estimate an environmental result.
No environmental figure is published without a documented methodology and review.
A commercial model tied to what you recover.
A success-based commercial model. Terms are defined after a short inventory and integration assessment.
Questions we get in the first meeting.
What counts as surplus inventory?
Anything usable that no longer supports current demand: excess from a cancelled or changed project, overbought minimum order quantities, spare parts after a machine upgrade, components from a discontinued bill of materials, or stock that has simply stopped moving. It is defined per company, using rules you agree in advance, not by a fixed formula.
Do we need to clean up our ERP data first?
No. Incomplete and inconsistent records are the normal starting point and the reason the enrichment step exists. Dead Stock proposes a complete product identity from what your record contains plus manufacturer sources, attaches a confidence score, and gives it to you for review before anything is published.
Does Dead Stock publish our entire inventory?
No. Nothing is published without your approval. You decide which categories are eligible, which items are released, in what quantity, and who can see them. Offers can remain private or be restricted to approved buyers.
Who sets the price?
You do. You set a starting price and a minimum price. A pricing policy adjusts within that band on a cadence you define, and you can override any price at any time. Nothing prices below your floor.
Is Dead Stock a broker, an auction or a marketplace?
Dead Stock is a recovery workflow. It prepares your inventory for sale, controls how it is exposed, and connects it to captured demand. A public browsable catalogue is on the roadmap and is labelled Planned wherever it appears. Nothing is bundled into a lot and nothing is auctioned without a floor.
Where does the inventory stay?
In your warehouse, under your control, until a sale is confirmed. Dead Stock does not take custody of stock. A confirmed sale creates a task in your warehouse workflow.
Which ERP systems are supported?
The honest answer is that Dead Stock works from data, not from a vendor badge. It accepts CSV and XLSX exports, scheduled file drops and API feeds, and an ERP partner can map your fields. Named vendor connectors will be listed only once each has been verified in a live deployment.
Does Dead Stock guarantee a sale?
No, and any platform that guarantees one is selling something else. Demand for a specific industrial item is real but uneven. What Dead Stock commits to is that eligible stock is properly identified, correctly described, priced within your rules, exposed to the right buyers, and measured so you can see whether it is working.
Put your surplus inventory back to work.
An inventory review is a short, structured conversation about one category of your stock: what is in it, what is recoverable, and what a controlled pilot would look like. No integration is required to have it.