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Metrics type: Card

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At a glance

Top 10 Items by current Inventory Value. Pareto check: typically 5% of SKUs hold 60% of inventory value.

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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 on BC, snapshot 14 Apr 26.

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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:
Item List > Sort by Inventory Value descending Reports > Inventory > ABC Analysis
Why may differ: Cross-connector reconciliation: shopify.top_inventory_skus for retail price view (different denominator).

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Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Healthy concentration? ABC analysis: A (top 5%) holds 60-80% of value, B (next 15%) holds 15-25%, C (bottom 80%) holds 5-15%. Top 10 vs Top 25? Default 10; configurable. Multi-Location: per-Location ranking? Aggregated by Item No. across Locations by default; per-Location available.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

Top SKUs by Inventory Value 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.