After how many days is wine considered dead stock?

The usual criteria is 90 days without sale for slow rotation and 180 days for dead stock.

What can I do with dead stock wines?

Offer them by the glass at a special price, include them in tasting menus, negotiate returns with the supplier, sell at clearance events or donate.

How much stock should a restaurant hold?

Stock should be able to rotate completely within 60-90 days.

Is any data sent to a server?

No. All calculations are performed in your browser.

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Dead stock calculator

Estimate how much capital you have tied up in non-rotating wines. Identify which references need immediate action.

Detecting dead stock is just the beginning

Winerim helps quantify tied-up capital, obsolescence risk and opportunity cost to make better rotation and purchasing decisions.

What it decides

Which references to remove from the list due to lack of rotation
How much real capital you have tied up and its opportunity cost
Which wines to boost, serve by the glass, remove or stop restocking

What it prevents

Continuing to buy references that don't sell
Tying up capital without visibility of the real cost
Making purchasing decisions without rotation data or priority

Potential impact

Release of capital blocked in non-rotating stock
Reduction of sleeping stock percentage below 15%
Objective criteria for renegotiating, removing or converting references

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This tool simulates one of the purchasing intelligence capabilities that Winerim Supply automates with real-time connected data.

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References with low or no rotation

Wine name

Units

Cost/unit (€)

Days without sale

How to interpret the results

When to use this calculator

Before placing a distributor order
During quarterly cellar review
When stock investment grows without sales growth
When preparing year-end accounts

Common mistakes

Not accounting for dead stock as a real cost
Buying more without moving accumulated stock
Waiting for a wine to sell itself
Not setting stock limits per reference

Frequently asked questions

Winerim Core

Automatic obsolescence detection

Winerim Core monitors the rotation of every reference, automatically detects dead stock and generates alerts before capital is tied up.

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Data-driven purchasing decisions

Winerim Supply helps decide what not to restock, what to renegotiate with distributors and which references to replace to free capital and improve rotation.