Description
Every dollar sitting on a storeroom shelf is a dollar not paying down debt, not funding a fix, and not earning anything. Yet MRO inventory rarely gets challenged, because it hides on the balance sheet where the income statement crowd never looks. This worksheet drags it into the light and puts a cash number on it.
You enter your total MRO value, then split the idle portion into the four buckets that actually free cash: obsolete stock with no movement in years, parts for equipment you no longer run, duplicate part numbers, and convenience stock you hold out of habit. Each bucket has a realistic recovery rate, because a write-off is not a full refund. The tool returns three numbers that matter to whoever controls the budget: the cash you get back within twelve months, the carrying cost you stop paying every year after, and the share of your stockroom that turns back into cash. It also shows your inventory turns and days on hand against clear benchmarks, so you can see how much capital is trapped for the output you run.
Then it hands you the script. A board-ready summary states the case in your own numbers, in the order that lands: here is what we carry, here is what is idle, here is the cash a cleanup returns, and here is the carrying cost it ends. The honest, disarming line is built in, the income statement barely moves, and that is exactly why finance says yes. The balance sheet and the cash position move, and cash is the language that frees a budget.
What you get:
- A four-bucket breakdown of idle MRO with realistic recovery rates
- Cash returned within 12 months and the carrying cost you stop paying
- First-year total benefit and the share of your stockroom freed
- Inventory turns and days on hand against MRO benchmarks
- A board-ready cash summary written in your own numbers
- Built on working-capital logic, in the ReliabilityX brand
- Runs in Excel, instant download, recalculates as you change inputs
Built for the maintenance, storeroom, and reliability leaders sitting on trapped cash, and for the finance leaders who will free the budget once they see it in cash.
Your storeroom is a bank account you forgot you had. For $49.99, find out the balance.
