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FOR CATEGORY MANAGERS

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Put category economics into every load review

See category mix, comparable value, recovery expectations, and concentration risk before inventory enters the assortment.

Account sign-up first — your manifest upload comes right after.

A tactile miniature category station of shelved and boxed inventory.
Decision handoff Where the recovery really lives
You bring
A load with an uneven category mix
You leave with
Recovery read by category and condition

Published load evidence

The same retail dollar does not recover equally across categories

Liquidata’s Expected Resale model uses the approved recovery schedule by category and condition. Category managers can evaluate the load mix instead of assuming one recovery rate across every product.

Decision to make

Does this category and condition mix support the recovery case?

DECISION REVIEW

Move from category composition to concentration review

One blanket rate hides risk; the schedule reads category and condition separately.

  1. 01

    Review category composition

    See which categories — electronics, home goods, apparel, toys — drive item count, quantity, and supported Fair Value.

  2. 02

    Apply category and condition recovery

    Use the approved schedule only where category, condition — new through salvage — and value coverage support it.

  3. 03

    Challenge concentration

    Identify when one category determines too much of the load’s recovery case.

ROLE OUTPUT

Use recovery by category and condition, not one blanket rate

Mix clarity

Understand what the load adds to the assortment.

Recovery discipline

Avoid applying one blanket percentage to unrelated categories.

Concentration awareness

See when a narrow mix raises sell-through and markdown risk.

Read the mix on a load you are considering.

Questions

Questions this role should resolve

Where do recovery rates come from?

Liquidata uses one approved category and condition recovery schedule so public and application calculations share the same source.

What happens when category lineage is missing?

Expected Resale Revenue is withheld when required category support is absent.

Can managers override the published estimate?

Teams can model their own channel assumptions separately, but the published Liquidata estimate retains its canonical basis.

THE NEXT MIX REVIEW

Test the next load against category and condition recovery.