Ruffin Trading Company
contracts with building supply
distributors to take inventories that
they cannot sell in exchange for
productive inventories.

Based on our specific quantitative
research on non-productive
inventories of building supply
distributors, the average dead stocks
accounted for 15-20% of total
inventories. Our definition of
non-productive stock extends to sku's
that have not sold one time in a twelve
month period.

Our research set included fourty five
separate building supply locations in
eight states across the US.

The economic analysis shows that
there is an "opportunity cost" to
holding non-productive inventories. A
way to quantify this lost profit
opportunity is to take the standard
industry margin on the cost value of
the non-productive inventory and
multiply by the average annual turns.
Given that most distributors have
limited warehouse, yard, and retail
space, dead stock can cost a minimum
of twice the value of the
non-productive stock per year (based
on a bare minimum of six turns).

Ruffin Trading Company has made a
science of analyzing and consulting on
non-productive inventories for the
building supply industry. We consult
with companies and then contract to
take away the problem inventories in
trade for their choice of new
inventories or other pre-allocated cash
expenditures.

Ruffin Trading contracts to return full
value in trade back to the distributor.

Our clients trade directly with Ruffin,
however, Ruffin Trading sources some
trade requests through barter houses
in the barter industry. Ruffin has
worked with the former BXI Exchange,
ITEX, Active International, NuBarter,
and others.

Barter is reported to the IRS on a
1099B form. Ruffin Trading Company
provides professionals to consult in
barter accounting with our clients.

The non-productive building materials
that we acquire become productive in
new economies. These building
materials are our leverage to build
trade bridges to other countries.
Jamaican girl in Kingston at
our warehousing site
Payment for dead stock sent
off to customer site in Virginia
Our Contracts Below:
This form is the actual purchase
agreement, with details on how Ruffin
pays back.  Signature on this
document happens before lists of
inventory are finalized because often
customers do not know exactly what
stock they have.
This first form is used as each
truckload of inventory leaves. If a
customer does not have a computer
record then the lists can be
hand-written from best available
information.