Mixed data quality
Records entered over many years by different people, with different conventions and different levels of completeness.
INDUSTRIAL PILOT
Pilot in progress
From factory inventory records to market-ready recovery candidates.
Dead Stock is being validated inside EcoReadyBath, an operating manufacturing company, using real ERP and warehouse records under the constraints of live production. This page describes what the pilot does and how it is measured. It does not describe results, because the results are not verified yet.
Status: pilot in progress. No results published.
CONTEXT
Manufacturing produces surplus as a matter of course.
A factory that builds to specification will always end up holding material that the specification no longer needs. A production series completes and leaves components behind. A supplier minimum arrives larger than the requirement. A machine is modernised and its spares become inventory for equipment nobody runs any more. None of this is mismanagement. It is what operating looks like. The items stay usable, and they stay recorded, but the record was written to find them in a rack rather than to sell them to somebody outside the building.
This is the environment the product was designed inside, rather than an environment it was later adapted to.
THE CHALLENGE
Seven constraints the pilot had to work inside.
These are the conditions a real factory imposes. A product that cannot satisfy them does not survive contact with an operations team.
Incomplete product identity
Abbreviated internal descriptions, missing manufacturer fields, no external identifiers on a significant share of items.
Many low-volume items
A long tail where the individual value never justified the manual effort of preparing a sale.
No external category
Internal categories organise a warehouse. They do not tell an outside buyer what an item is.
Active production must be protected
Nothing that supports current or planned production may become releasable, under any circumstances.
Pricing must be auditable
Finance has to be able to reconstruct why an item was offered at a given price on a given date.
The warehouse owns fulfilment
A sale that does not become a normal warehouse task is a sale that creates work instead of value.
PILOT WORKFLOW
Eight steps, run on real records.
The same workflow described on the product pages, executed inside a working plant rather than on a demo dataset.
PilotIn development
- 01
Ingest controlled records
A defined subset of inventory records, exported under the plant's own approval, with no access to production systems.
- 02
Analyse movement and eligibility
Ageing, movement history and safety-stock rules applied to separate what may be released from what may not.
- 03
Classify and enrich
Product identity resolved: manufacturer, identifiers, category and technical attributes, each with a confidence score.
- 04
Review product identity
Plant staff check the enrichment output against the physical item. This is where the accuracy of the whole approach is decided.
- 05
Define quantity and price policy
Releasable quantity per item, price floor and the cadence at which a price may move.
- 06
Generate approved offers
Approved records become offers at the visibility level the plant selected.
- 07
Test buyer and channel flow
Captured demand is matched against approved offers to test whether the identifiers actually meet.
- 08
Connect fulfilment and reporting
A confirmed sale becomes a warehouse task, and the outcome is measured against the agreed baseline.
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.
MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK
Eleven measures, agreed before the first record was processed.
Agreeing the measures in advance is the difference between a pilot and a demonstration. Each one is being collected. None is published here, because none has been verified and signed off yet.
In development
- Records processed
- Records classified correctly on human review
- Required fields completed after enrichment
- Time per approved listing
- Eligible inventory value in scope
- Published-to-match conversion
- Recovery value against the approved baseline
- Time to sale
- Fulfilment accuracy
- Manual hours spent by plant staff
- Stock and warehouse space released
No figure from this pilot is published on this website. When results are verified and released, they will appear here with the method used to obtain them, the period they cover and the baseline they are measured against. Until then, the absence of numbers on this page is deliberate and is the honest state of the evidence.
Eleven measurement cards for the pilot, each showing the measure name and the words not published with an em dash instead of a value, under a statement that values are published only after verification.
WHY THIS PILOT
The product came out of the problem, not the other way round.
Dead Stock did not start as a marketplace idea looking for a category. It started inside an operation where the surplus was visible in the system every month, where procurement could name the items, where finance could see the carrying value, and where the honest answer to why nothing happened was that no process existed and building one by hand was not worth anyone's week. Running the pilot in that same environment means the constraints are real: production comes first, the warehouse team has a day job, and a workflow that adds effort will simply be ignored.
A named quote and photographs from the site require written permission and are not published. GATE-PILOT-001.
WHAT IS AND IS NOT PUBLISHED
The state of the evidence, stated plainly.
Published on this page: the environment, the constraints, the workflow being run, and the measures being collected. Not published: pilot results, recovered value, processed volumes, photographs of the site, the client logo and any named quote. Those require verification and written permission, and neither is complete. A case study that quietly implies results it does not have is worth less than one that says what it knows.
Run a controlled inventory recovery pilot in your own operation.
The pilot method on this page is the method Dead Stock runs with every seller: one category, a controlled sample, a measurement baseline agreed before anything starts.