Wholesale and Industrial Inventories

Understanding the distribution and manufacturing processes of countless industries, our highly specialized associates cover an extensive assortment of inventories, including chemicals and plastics, building materials, automotive parts and accessories, paper and pulp, food processing, and industrial supplies.

Industrial Specialization

The following lists detail selected factors that are utilized in the determination of recovery values:

Wholesale

• Breadth of sales channels and customers
• Ease of substitution
• Level of open sales orders
• Customer base and concentration
• Customers’ ability to buy and store goods
• Nature of the inventory (i.e., commodity, specialized)
• Inventory location
• Weeks of supply
• Market prices
• Inventory composition
• Level of aged goods

Industrial

• Proportion of raw materials, work in process, and finished goods as a percentage of total inventory
• Finished goods weeks of supply
• Likelihood of a conversion process
• Competitive products in marketplace
• Time and/or expense to replicate manufacturing ability
• Inventory location
• Nature of the inventory (i.e., commodity, specialized)
• Customer base
• Open sales orders
• Market prices
• Level of aged goods

The typical liquidation strategy for wholesale and industrial inventories is an orderly liquidation sale. For the liquidation of wholesale inventory, open sales orders are filled, and the remaining inventory is sold to existing customers, as well as to new customers and competitors. For the liquidation of industrial inventory, the opportunity to convert raw materials and work in process into finished goods is evaluated.

The finished goods are then sold to existing customers, as well as to new customers and competitors. Any inventories remained unsold after these primary channels are typically sold to dealers and brokers at significant discounts.

 

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