Inventory is cash sitting on shelves. Every unit of inventory represents cash you've spent that you can't use for anything else until that unit sells. For many businesses, inventory is the largest trap of working capital - and the hardest to optimize.

The goal isn't minimum inventory - it's right-sized inventory. Enough to meet demand without stockouts, but not so much that cash is trapped in slow-moving products. This requires understanding your turns by SKU, identifying what's not selling, and making hard decisions about product mix.

In this topic, you'll learn to analyze inventory turns, identify slow-moving and obsolete inventory, implement right-sizing strategies, and free cash that's currently trapped on shelves.