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Carrying Costs

 
Carrying costs, also known as holding costs, are the costs of holding inventory including other costs like Insurance and other indirect expenses, such as opportunity costs, and losses from theft. Within the inventory carrying costs category there are 4 main sub-categories including: capital costs, storage costs, handling costs and risk costs. Typically this makes up between 20-25% of inventory value on hand.
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