--- title: "Identify slow movers: which products don't earn their shelf space? | byrd" description: Which products barely or never sell, how much capital do they tie up and what do you do with them? 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Products that were a good idea two years ago, have sat on the shelf ever since and do three things: rack up storage costs, tie up capital and eat time at every stocktake. The problem with slow movers is not that they exist. The problem is that they are invisible: no dashboard raises an alarm for a product that simply does nothing. The slow-mover report from [byrdAI](https://www.getbyrd.com/uk/byrd-ai) makes exactly these silent products visible, sorted by the capital they tie up. And it answers the question that comes next: what to do with them? ## **The problem: nobody notices doing nothing** **Slow movers set off no alarm.** A stockout hurts straight away, a wave of returns too. A product that has not been ordered in 14 months does nothing at all, and that is exactly why nobody deals with it. **The costs are hidden but real.** Every occupied storage location costs you money every month. On top of that comes the tied-up capital: goods you have paid for that never turn back into revenue while they sit there. **Gut feeling deceives.** Asked about their slow movers, most merchants name two or three suspects. The report regularly shows considerably more, up to several times as many. That often includes products that have never seen a single order. **How to find your slow movers with byrdAI** Once connected, a question like this is all it takes in Claude or ChatGPT: "Which products have not moved in the last 90 days?" byrdAI pulls your live data from byrd and returns every affected product with status, stock, last dispatch date and tied-up stock value. With the ready-made dashboard prompt from the [byrdAI page](https://www.getbyrd.com/uk/byrd-ai), that becomes a live dashboard that splits your silent products into three honest categories: - **Never sold:** not a single order since it was created. The hardest cases and usually the clearest decisions. - **Not sold for a long time:** ordered in the past, dead for months. Here it is worth looking at the cause: price, visibility, season? - **Slow:** it trickles. Five sales in six months rarely justifies its own storage location. ![Ladenhüter Report byrd AI](https://blog.getbyrd.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-07-21%20at%2017.29.46.png?width=1087&height=767&name=Screenshot%202026-07-21%20at%2017.29.46.png) ![byrdAI Ladenhüter](https://blog.getbyrd.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-07-21%20at%2017.30.11.png?width=1086&height=897&name=Screenshot%202026-07-21%20at%2017.30.11.png) ## **Which decisions to draw from it** **Never-sellers: out.** Back to the supplier, donate, write off or use as a free add-on. Anything beats another twelve months of storage costs for a product without a single buyer. **High-value slow movers: activate rather than write off.** Products with a meaningful stock value belong in a bundle with a bestseller, a discount campaign or a marketplace deal. Your [ABC analysis](https://blog.getbyrd.com/en-gb/abc-analysis-inventory-byrdai?hsLang=en-gb) shows you which A-items are suitable as the workhorse for the bundle. **Clear out the rest decisively.** Range cleanup is not an admission, it is hygiene: fewer SKUs mean fewer storage locations, less counting effort and more focus on the products that carry your business. **Expert tip:** Before every delisting decision, check two things: seasonality (the jacket almost never sells in July) and product age. The report deliberately excludes freshly created products so that new arrivals do not wrongly appear as slow movers. Even so: understand the cause first, then decide.  From dead stock report to routine **The quarterly review.** "On the first Monday of every quarter, create the slow-mover list for me, sorted by tied-up capital, with a recommendation per product: sell off, bundle or delist." An unpleasant ad-hoc project becomes a 20-minute routine. **The bundle suggestion.** "For my 10 most valuable slow movers, suggest a bundle each with a matching bestseller, including a price suggestion." The assistant combines the slow-mover report and top-mover data in one answer. **The new-product watchdog.** "Let me know when a product still has fewer than 5 sales 120 days after being created." That is how you spot flops early, while the stock is still small and the problem still cheap. **The sell-off campaign.** With a follow-up prompt, the list turns straight into a campaign draft: affected products, remaining stock, recommended discount, copy block for the newsletter. ## **Make the silent products visible** As a byrd customer, you connect byrdAI to Claude or ChatGPT in around 5 minutes and copy the slow-mover prompt from our [byrdAI page](https://www.getbyrd.com/uk/byrd-ai) or below this section. Not a byrd customer yet? byrdAI comes only with byrd fulfilment, as the first European 3PL with an MCP server. [Talk to us](https://www.getbyrd.com/uk/byrd-ai#byrdai-cta). ### **Example prompt for the slow-mover report (adjust it however you like).** Build a live, persisted HTML dashboard artifact that shows the products I rarely or never sell, pulling fresh data from byrd every time it opens. Single self-contained HTML file, light mode only. ## Data source - Tool: report\_slow\_movers (byrd MCP). - On first load and whenever the sales window changes, call it with { days: <90 | 180 | 365, default 180>, max\_units\_sold: 5, min\_stock: 0, created\_before: }. - Row fields: product\_name, sku, movement\_status ("never\_sold" | "no\_recent\_sales" | "slow"), current\_stock, units\_sold, last\_outbound\_date, days\_since\_last\_outbound, created\_date, stock\_value (nullable, EUR at purchase cost). Cache per window so switching back is instant. ## Tech & style - Chart.js v4 and Grid.js v5 from the allowed CDN, no other libraries, system font stack. - Accent turquoise #62C2AF (#2F7A68 for links), text #293141, secondary #4E5664, borders #E5EAEE, page #FAFAFA, cards #fff. - Status colours: never sold = red #FD5C63, no recent sales = amber #F2A03D, slow = grey #9CA0A8. ## Layout (top to bottom) 1. Header: uppercase eyebrow "Inventory health - slow & never-moving stock", H1 "Products you rarely or never sell", short turquoise accent rule, subtitle with active window + last-updated time. No logo. 2. Controls card: sales-window buttons 90 days / 180 days / 12 months (re-fetches); status filter All / Never sold / No recent / Slow; min-stock-value select (Any / EUR 100+ / 500+ / 1,000+); "In-stock only" and "Hide test SKUs" checkboxes. 3. Four KPI cards reflecting the filters: Products shown (of N), Tied-up stock value, Never sold count, Units on shelf. 4. Two charts stacked vertically: "Where the stock value sits" (bar of value per status, custom legend with counts) and "Biggest tied-up capital (top 12)" (horizontal bars coloured by status, SKU on axis, product details in tooltip). 5. Recommended actions: data-driven cards - delist/return never-sold stock, review items stalled >365 days, bundle high-value slow movers (value >= 500), clean up test SKUs, add missing cost prices. Each with icon, headline and impact numbers. 6. Grid.js table (sortable, searchable, 12 rows/page) sorted by stock value desc: SKU (with hover copy-SKU button and open-in-byrd link to https://app.getbyrd.com/inventory/products/all?q=&fields=sku), Product, Status icon with tooltip, Stock, Sold, Last shipped ("Never" if never), Value. Above it: "Showing N products" plus a "Copy N SKUs" button (newline-separated). 7. Footer explaining the definition (shipped <= 5 units in the window) and that stock value is a floor when cost prices are missing. ## Details - EUR whole numbers, thousands separators. Escape all dynamic HTML. - Use a custom positioned tooltip div driven by data-tip attributes (native title tooltips don't work in the sandbox). - Handle a missing connector gracefully; show loading and error states. Finish by verifying the rows load and charts render without console errors. ## **Häufige Fragen zum Ladenhüter-Report mit byrdAI** When does a product count as a slow mover? The report uses as its default: at most 5 units sold in the chosen period (90, 180 or 365 days). You can freely adjust the threshold by prompt. What is the difference from the overstock report? The slow-mover report finds products that barely or never sell, a demand problem. The overstock report finds products that sell well but of which far too much is in the warehouse, a purchasing problem. Together, both show you all of your tied-up capital. What does byrdAI cost? 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