Slow moving inventory solutions

This article has an interested statement, though in the end we think we have a better solution for some slow moving inventory.

As a rule of thumb, we figure that the expense of maintaining goods in inventory averages about 2 percent of the cost of those goods each month. If you carry an item in stock on the shelves or in a warehouse for a year, you're down 24 percent. There aren't many businesses that can overcome this kind of a cost handicap even in the best of times. When business is bad, a slow moving inventory can be a killer.

Dispose of Wholesale Surplus Inventory and Slow Moving Inventory

http://www.morebusiness.com/running_your_business/profitability/tip15.brc

The article then talks about junking inventory and selling it at a distress sale. I think that might apply to some goods, but any sort of industrial parts that may be needed in the future by customers should not be sold at a loss or junked, it should be put into an inventory bank.