Why Your Excess Inventory Is Costing You Millions and How to Fix It | Purpose-driven logistics

What if the inventory sitting unused in your warehouses could become a source of revenue, reduce waste, and create new opportunities across your supply chain?

Stephanie Benedetto, CEO and co-founder of Aloqia, is working to make that possible. A recognized leader in circular fashion and climate technology, Stephanie is helping businesses rethink excess inventory and unlock the value of materials that might otherwise end up collecting dust, being burned, or sent to landfills.

In this conversation, Stephanie explains how a problem she witnessed firsthand while building a sustainable materials business led her to tackle a much bigger challenge. Across industries, companies are holding valuable excess inventory, often without the data, visibility, or connections needed to put those assets back to work. She describes the scale of the opportunity and discusses the estimated $2 trillion in lost economic value tied to excess inventory globally.

Stephanie also shares how her family’s generations-long history in manufacturing, textiles, and material reuse shaped her approach to business. Her great-grandfather repurposed discarded fabrics into garments, while her grandfather found new uses for surplus military goods. Their example reflects a simple but powerful idea: waste is not waste until you waste it.

The discussion explores how technology can connect physical inventory with digital information, helping businesses identify, value, and move excess materials to new buyers. Stephanie explains why addressing this challenge is not just a sustainability initiative. It is also a business opportunity that can support profitability, improve supply chain efficiency, and deliver benefits for people and the planet.

From the role of AI and digital twins to the importance of measuring economic impact, Stephanie offers a practical perspective on how companies can build more circular supply chains. She also shares her vision for the future, including the development of an industry standard for defining and valuing excess inventory, and why collaboration across industries will be essential to making progress.