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

Growth succeeds when every supply chain process scales together. Growth exposes things. A process that works fine when you're shipping 500 orders a day starts showing cracks at 2,000, and by 5,000 it's actively costing you. The companies that scale well aren't the ones with the best software. They're the ones who figured out what was actually fragile before volume made it catastrophic. Inventory accuracy is usually the first thing to go. When you're small, a weekly cycle coun