# Stock Rotation

Skill · Business and Management

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/stock-rotation

Stock rotation is an inventory management practice, often summarized by the FIFO (first in, first out) principle, where older inventory is sold or used before newer stock to minimize spoilage, obsolescence, and waste. It's especially critical in retail and grocery settings for perishable goods like food and pharmaceuticals. Store employees and warehouse managers implement stock rotation by placing older items at the front of shelves and restocking new items behind them.

Related skills: [Inventory Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/inventory-management), [Merchandising](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/merchandising), [Stock Control](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/stock-control), [Stocking Merchandise](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/stocking-merchandise), [Warehouse Operations](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/warehouse-operations)

## Open roles requiring Stock Rotation (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.