Inventory policy
- Gross Headroom
- €8–12M
- Confidence
- High
- Realizability
- Medium–High
- Cross-domain effect
- Service + · Capacity 0
- Recommended next step
- Parameter optimization
VALUE SIGNAL · UNREALIZED VALUE MADE MEASURABLE
Find the value your business is leaving unrealized.
Most businesses contain more realizable economic value than conventional functional reporting reveals. We call it Headroom — and Value Signal finds it, quantifies it and helps you capture it. We start with your data and the people who run the business — the economics, not the technology.
Enterprise HeadroomAvailable now
Current performance
Headroom
Inventory & Working Capital
Available now · provenFuture coverage
Evidence + expertise
Your operating data, read together with the knowledge of the people who run the process.
A value case your team owns
Prioritized and confidence-tiered, built with the people who must deliver it — so governance and adoption are set from the outset.
Capability that captures it
A curated set of specialist capabilities turns the case into measurable outcomes.
Evidence · Inventory & Working Capital
Working-capital Headroom can be measured.
10+years, OnTarget in major enterprise environments
15–30%typical working-capital release at SKU / location level
95→98%availability improvement, Life Sciences deployment
6–8 wksconfiguration to first run
- Multi-sector deployment history — FMCG beverages, Life Sciences, OTC pharma
- 98.5% service with ~30% cash reduction, FMCG beverages
- 75%+ recommended safety-stock targets accepted / deployed
Illustrative outcomes from separate Inventory & Working-Capital deployments powered by OnTarget. Historical results predate Value Signal and are presented as evidence of the underlying technology capability. Each case was validated against its own baseline. Results vary by business context and are not a forecast or guarantee.
The concept
Unrealized economic value. We call it Headroom.
Headroom is the realizable economic gap between how your business performs today and what it could reasonably achieve.
Value Signal separates theoretical opportunity from value that can realistically be captured — given the business context, data, constraints, dependencies and path to execution.
01Current performance
02Identified Headroom
03Realized value
Opportunity qualification
Not every gap is worth pursuing.
Data surfaces where value may be trapped. The people who run the process explain what is real — their tacit knowledge, captured through a structured, increasingly AI-assisted method, becomes part of the evidence.
Each opportunity is then assessed on gross Headroom, confidence, realizability and cross-domain effect. The card shows the shape of that logic. It is illustrative — not a live Headroom Index or automated score.
How it works
From signal to realized value.
The value case is built with the people who must deliver it, so ownership, governance and adoption are set from the outset. Only then is technology selected — a curated specialist capability, deployed where the economics justify it.
01
Diagnose
Read operating and financial data alongside the expertise of the people who run the process, to expose where value is trapped.
02
Quantify
Translate operational opportunity into economic impact.
03
Prioritize
Separate interesting ideas from material, realizable opportunities.
04
Enable
Set owners, KPIs and governance with the people who must deliver — so adoption is built in before any technology is selected.
05
Realize
Track whether the value is actually captured.
Technology follows the value case.
Enterprise Headroom
The ambition is broad. The claim is narrow.
Value Signal looks across domains because economic value rarely follows organizational boundaries.
Inventory & Working Capital
Economic qualification and inventory optimization supported by OnTarget.
Capability gate
Evidence before expansion.
A domain becomes active only when we can quantify its Headroom and connect it to a credible path to realization — through a proven method, technology or specialist capability.
Wider enterprise Headroom
The same value-first logic can extend across manufacturing, procurement, commercial, risk, regulatory and sustainability once each domain passes the capability gate.
Available now · proven engine
Turn inventory into Headroom.
Inventory is often one of the largest immediately addressable pools of trapped capital in manufacturing and distribution businesses — without assuming that less stock must mean less service.
Technology capability: OnTarget
Proven in major enterprise environments for 10+ years.
The OnTarget optimization engine has a long deployment history in blue-chip organizations. Value Signal brings that established capability into a value-first model: quantify the Headroom first, test whether it is realizable, and deploy the technology where the economics justify it.
Safety stockExcess & obsoleteSegmentationService-level policyPlanning parametersForecast variabilityPortfolio complexityService / cash trade-offs
VALUE SIGNAL
A value-first model built around evidence.
The brand is deliberately broader than any single technology. The first engine is proven; the wider model expands only where evidence, method and capability justify the claim.
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Where is the Headroom in your business?
For Working Capital, start with a focused, data-informed review that quantifies where inventory Headroom exists and what it would take to capture it.