Nobody wakes up and decides to let stock sit for three years. Purchasing sources new parts. Logistics manages the space. Accounting wrote it off long ago.
The stock belongs to no department, so nobody decides.
We wrote about this on Evertiq - DACH this week. One thing I say in it: we do not take goods without traceable origin, or parts with no market left.
Telling someone at our first meeting that a third of their list is scrap is never a nice moment. It goes quiet for a second... But so far, every single one of them has thanked me for it later.
The full piece is in German, including the four moments when a component quietly loses its value: https://lnkd.in/ex6s5MQ4
Who owns excess inventory in your organisation?