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Excess stock has a way of creeping up on you. It's rarely one big obvious event and more likely a slow build of small decisions that eventually add up to a warehouse problem and a cash flow problem at the same time- often slipping under the radar. Here are five signs it's worth taking a proper look. You're paying to store stock that isn't moving This is the clearest sign, and often the one that gets ignored longest. If you've got pallets sitting in a warehouse for months with

A supplier came to No Waste Australia with a problem that will sound familiar to anyone who has worked in supply chain: 12 pallets of a product, no confirmed buyer, and roughly two weeks of shelf life remaining. What happened next became one of the clearest examples yet of why our business model exists. The Challenge The supplier was sitting on 12 pallets of yoghurt with no home and a shrinking window to sell it. With roughly two weeks of shelf life left, every day the stock

If you work in FMCG, you've probably had this conversation before. A promotional run gets overproduced, a retailer changes an order at the last minute, or a line gets discontinued and suddenly you've got pallets of good, sellable stock with nowhere obvious to go. The instinct is often to panic-discount it through whatever channel is closest. But that can quietly do more damage than the excess stock itself, especially if it ends up undercutting your own pricing on shelf. What'

At No Waste Australia , I see the same challenges every week: excess inventory, short-dated product, missed promotional windows. And one thing has become clear- sales teams can influence supply chain performance just as much as logistics or procurement.