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the silent ledger that decides whether your business is genius or just hoarding with spreadsheets
means A complete list of the goods, materials, or items a business or person has on hand, or the act of counting them.
from From Medieval Latin 'inventorium,' a list of things found, built on Latin 'invenire' meaning 'to come upon, to find' (literally 'to come into,' from 'in-' plus 'venire,' to come). The same 'invenire' gives us 'invent' — so an inventory is, at root, a record of everything you've found, while invention is the act of finding something new. It reached English through Old French 'inventoire.'
dead capitalUnsold stock is cash you can't spend
shrinkageTheft and error erase billions yearly, invisibly
just-in-timeToyota made owning less a competitive weapon
word originFrom Latin for a list of found things
ghost stockRecords often show items that physically vanished