Dead Stock Analysis
Application component: Fiori UI for Stock and Goods Movements
App type: Analytical
Line of business: Supply Chain
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Goods Movement (S/4)|Inventory Analytics and Control (S/4)
Scope items: Core Inventory Management
Description:  With this app, you can monitor and make time-dependent investigations of your dead stock. Dead stock represents a combination of locations and materials where the stock value has increased over a defined analysis period despite existing consumption postings within that period. The analysis of the dead stock identifies materials that could potentially have a negative impact on the company’s cash flow and profitability. Based on these results, you can react immediately with follow-on activities and decide whether a material should, for example, be discontinued, discounted, or transferred to a different location.  The Dead Stock Analysis app supports you in your daily work, for example, as an inventory manager, to achieve maximum inventory accuracy and subsequently to optimize the inventory situation in your stock. 
With this app, you can monitor and make time-dependent investigations of your dead stock. 
A dead stock represents a combination of list of locations and materials where the stock is greater than zero and no goods issues exist for a defined period of time in the past.  The analysis of the dead stock determines materials, that have a negative impact to the company’s cash flow and profitability. Based on these results you can react immediately with follow-on activities such as deciding whether a material should be discontinued, be discounted or removed from a location. 
This app supports you in your daily work, for example, as an inventory manager, to achieve maximum inventory accuracy and subsequently to optimize the inventory situation in your stock.
Key features:    Monitor the dead stock with a focus on, for example, plants for which you are responsible.   Select a display currency and track dead stock for several plants in different countries.   Monitor how much capital is tied up by dead stock.   Monitor important key performance indicators (KPIs) and key figures, such as the number of occurrences of dead stock (displayed as a value).   Define follow-up actions such as scrapping or stock transfers, or inform colleagues about the stock situation.   Save variants of the app with regard to the dead stock for which you are responsible. Note The app is predefined as follows:  The app considers materials that have a higher inventory values at the end of the analysis period than at the beginning.   The app only considers materials that have at least one consumption posting in the selected analysis period.   The app does not consider negative stock.     Note The app calculates the stock values based on the stock quantity of the selected reporting date multiplied by the current material price. This means that the app always calculates using the current material price, irrespective of the reporting date you have selected. This calculation method for the stock value is common to all Fiori apps in Inventory Management. Note Depending on your authorization settings, the app might only display zero in all the stock value columns in the results table. This type of financial information is often only available to a specific group of users. If only zero is displayed, you can hide these irrelevant value columns in the table display or get in contact with your administrator to clarify what you are authorized to display. In addition, the app supports the following technical features and options:  This app includes SAP CoPilot. This digital assistant in the SAP S/4HANA system supports you with features such as business context awareness or quick actions to manage follow-on activities directly from the app.   
Business roles: Inventory Manager| Shipping Specialist| Shipping Specialist - Just-In-Time Supply| Warehouse Clerk| Receiving Specialist| Inventory Manager (Retail)
Receiving Specialist : 
Processes inbound deliveries.

Inventory Manager (Retail) : 
Manages inventory with respect to quantity and value.

Inventory Manager : 
Manages inventory with respect to quantity and value.

Shipping Specialist - Just-In-Time Supply : 
Processes outbound deliveries for Just-In-Time calls.

Inventory Analyst : 
Analyzes stock figures and historical stock information.

Warehouse Clerk : 
Executes daily warehouse operations, such as carrying out stock transfers, analyzing stock-out situations, reverse material documents, etc.

Shipping Specialist : 
Processes outbound deliveries.