Cash Tied Up in Slow‑Moving and Obsolete Contact Lens Inventory

$1,000–$5,000 per corporate contract period in leftover promotional or employer-specific lens stock that ends up discounted or expired. • $1,000–$6,000 per year in pediatric contact lens stock wasted or discounted, along with time spent doing seasonal counts and reshuffling inventory. • $1,000–$7,000 in contact lens boxes that expire or must be discounted each year in Medicare/Medicaid-heavy practices, eroding already thin margins.

Ad-hoc notes and memory about which pediatric-related SKUs are outdated, with occasional suggestions to the office manager to clear out or donate older boxes. • Browsing shelves visually, relying on memory of what has been sitting the longest, and using mental notes or sticky notes on boxes to remind themselves to ‘use these up’ before ordering newer designs. • Exporting past order history for a corporate account to Excel, trying to correlate what was stocked to what was actually dispensed, and then doing a one‑time cleanout of unused stock tied to that contract.