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Metrics type: Supporting Metrics • Category: Ecommerce Platform
COGS divided by average inventory value. Below 2x annualised signals slow-moving stock.

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At a glance

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Calculation

Calculated automatically from your Microsoft Dynamics 365 data. See the At a glance summary above for what the metric tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.

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Worked example

US distributor, annualised COGS 58M,avginventory58M, avg inventory 5.4M = 10.7x turnover. Healthy for electronics (benchmark 8-12x). Apparel typically 4-6x; food 12-20x.

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Sibling cards merchants should reference together

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Reconciling against the vendor’s own dashboard

Where to look in Business Central:
Power BI > Inventory Performance > Turnover tile Manual: Income Statement COGS / Inventory Valuation report
Why may differ: Cross-connector reconciliation: No commerce-side counterpart.

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Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Industry benchmarks? Apparel 4-6x. Electronics 8-12x. Food 12-20x. Industrial 6-10x. Days of inventory? 365 / Turnover. So 10.7x = 34 days of inventory on hand. Per-Item turnover? Available via drill-down.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

Inventory Turnover Ratio is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English. Start for free or book a demo to see this metric running on your own data.