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inventory.abc-classification

ABC classes by annual consumption value (Pareto), with configurable cut-offs such as 80/15/5 and deterministic ties.

1.0.0 · published 2026-10-03 by charlie · Anterra

Pinned by 17 tests, run in TypeScript, Python and Rust.

What it does

ABC analysis ranks stock items by annual consumption value (annual quantity x unit cost) and splits the ranking into classes by cumulative share of the total, on the Pareto observation that a few items carry most of the value. Class A items get the tightest control and most frequent counts (see `inventory.cycle-count-schedule`).

**Cut-offs** are cumulative basis points, ascending, each from 1 to 9999: `[8000, 9500]` is the usual 80/15/5 split into A, B and C. Pass more to get more classes, lettered A, B, C, D ... (up to 25 cut-offs).

For example

  • abcClassification(items ×10, 80%, 95%) → ×10 80/15/5 over ten items: P3 ends exactly on 80% and is A, P4 starts on 80% and is B, P6 starts at 94.5% and is still B; P6 and P7 tie and rank by sku
  • abcClassification(items ×10, 50%, 80%, 95%) → ×10 four classes from three cut-offs: P6 starts at 94.5%, so C, and P7 at 96.5%, so D
  • abcClassification(items ×2, 80%, 95%) → ×2 one item holding 90% is A, not B, and the next starts at 90% so it is B

The function

The same function in TypeScript, Python and Rust, pinned by the same tests. Pick your language; the choice follows you around the registry.

export function abcClassification(items: readonly ConsumptionItem[], cutoffBasisPoints: readonly number[]): readonly AbcItem[]
itemsConsumptionItem[]every stock item, with its annual usage and unit cost
cutoffBasisPointsint[]cumulative shares where each class ends, ascending: [8000, 9500] is A to 80%, B to 95%, C the rest
returnsAbcItem[]every item, highest annual value first

The types it declares, generated into your project

/** One stock item and a year's usage of it. */
export interface ConsumptionItem {
  /** unique */
  readonly sku: string;
  /** units used in the year, not negative */
  readonly annualQuantity: number;
  /** not negative; every item in one currency */
  readonly unitCost: Money;
}

/** One item's place in the ranking. */
export interface AbcItem {
  readonly sku: string;
  /** annualQuantity x unitCost */
  readonly annualValue: Money;
  /** 1 for the highest annual value */
  readonly rank: number;
  /** share of the total value up to and including this item, rounded half-up */
  readonly cumulativeBasisPoints: number;
  /** "A", "B", "C" ... one letter per class */
  readonly abcClass: string;
}

Your code names it in one line, in the file that uses it

import { abcClassification } from "#fune/inventory.abc-classification@^1";
impl/typescript.ts · 54 lines · open · raw

Imports name this capability’s declared dependencies, which fune builds next to it in your project; each one links to its page.

import { roundDiv } from "./math_round_div.ts";  ← from math.round-div ^1.0.0 · built alongside by fune
import { assertSameCurrency, money } from "./money_amount.ts";  ← from money.amount ^1.0.0 · built alongside by fune
import { type AbcItem, type ConsumptionItem } from "./inventory_abc_classification_types.ts";

const LETTERS = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";

/**
 * Rank items by annual consumption value and class them by the band of the
 * cumulative share each one starts in, so the item that crosses a cut-off
 * stays in the higher class.
 */
export function abcClassification(items: readonly ConsumptionItem[], cutoffBasisPoints: readonly number[]): readonly AbcItem[] {
  if (cutoffBasisPoints.length === 0 || cutoffBasisPoints.length > 25) {
    throw new RangeError(`cutoffBasisPoints needs 1 to 25 cut-offs, received ${cutoffBasisPoints.length}`);
  }
  let previous = 0;
  for (const cutoff of cutoffBasisPoints) {
    if (!Number.isInteger(cutoff) || cutoff <= previous || cutoff >= 10000) {
      throw new RangeError(`cutoffBasisPoints must ascend strictly within 1..9999: received ${cutoff} after ${previous}`);
    }
    previous = cutoff;
  }
  const seen = new Set<string>();
  const valued = items.map((item) => {
    if (seen.has(item.sku)) throw new RangeError(`duplicate sku "${item.sku}"`);
    seen.add(item.sku);
    if (!Number.isInteger(item.annualQuantity) || item.annualQuantity < 0) {
      throw new RangeError(`annualQuantity must be a whole number, not negative, received ${item.annualQuantity} for "${item.sku}"`);
    }
    if (item.unitCost.minor < 0) {
      throw new RangeError(`unitCost must not be negative, received ${item.unitCost.minor} for "${item.sku}"`);
    }
    assertSameCurrency(items[0].unitCost, item.unitCost);
    return { sku: item.sku, value: item.annualQuantity * item.unitCost.minor, currency: item.unitCost.currency };
  });
  const total = valued.reduce((sum, item) => sum + item.value, 0);
  if (!Number.isSafeInteger(total * 10000)) {
    throw new RangeError("the total annual value is too large: it must stay within (2^53 - 1) / 10000 minor units");
  }
  valued.sort((a, b) => (b.value !== a.value ? b.value - a.value : a.sku < b.sku ? -1 : a.sku > b.sku ? 1 : 0));
  let before = 0;
  return valued.map((item, index) => {
    let band = cutoffBasisPoints.findIndex((cutoff) => before * 10000 < cutoff * total);
    if (band < 0) band = cutoffBasisPoints.length;
    before += item.value;
    return {
      sku: item.sku,
      annualValue: money(item.value, item.currency),
      rank: index + 1,
      cumulativeBasisPoints: total === 0 ? 0 : roundDiv(before * 10000, total, "half-up"),
      abcClass: LETTERS[band],
    };
  });
}

Install

fune build

With that line in your source, in a TypeScript project (language typescript in fune.project), fune build resolves it and its 2 dependencies, pins them in fune.lock, downloads only the TypeScript package of each, and builds the code above into your project’s .fune/build, one readable file per capability with a header linking back here. Or pin a range in fune.project and build in one step:

fune add inventory.abc-classification
Download for TypeScript inventory.abc-classification-1.0.0-typescript.fune · 18,535 bytes sha256 000f6c263805a5fe09dd13465eea51faeaaa2ae56ae6cadec6a28f97dab14900

The manifest, vectors and README with only the TypeScript implementation. Install it without the registry with fune add ./inventory.abc-classification-1.0.0-typescript.fune, or fetch it from a terminal with fune pull inventory.abc-classification@1.0.0:typescript.

The whole function, every language, is one file too: inventory.abc-classification-1.0.0.fune, 26,098 bytes, sha256 90bb26438e7d1b6baed85d767cb3ab5755635015364d1fea9ec3bfcb4a987677. It installs into a project of any language.

Customise it in your app

The seams this capability offers. Put a marker directly above a function of your own and fune build wires it into the built code; the package on the registry is not changed, the built file’s header lists it under CUSTOMISED, and fune hooks lists every hook in the project. How hooks work.

before — your function gets the arguments and returns them, changed or not, or throws to refuse the call.

// fune: before inventory.abc-classification

after — your function gets the result and the arguments, and returns the final result.

// fune: after inventory.abc-classification

replace — inside this capability’s code only, calls to a dependency go to your function, with the same signature. Other capabilities that use it are unaffected; write in * to replace it everywhere.

// fune: replace math.round-div in inventory.abc-classification
// fune: replace money.amount in inventory.abc-classification

step — your function runs at a numbered point inside the function’s body, receives the in-scope values it names as parameters, and may return replacements. List the points with fune show inventory.abc-classification --steps.

// fune: step inventory.abc-classification after <n|label>

Tests

A version published now needs at least 8 tests for every function, and one that expects the error for each function that throws; the registry refuses it otherwise. fune verify --all runs each case in TypeScript, Python and Rust, and a project runs them again with fune verify. This page lists the cases; it does not run them. The exact JSON is vectors.json.

CaseArgumentsExpected
80/15/5 over ten items: P3 ends exactly on 80% and is A, P4 starts on 80% and is B, P6 starts at 94.5% and is still B; P6 and P7 tie and rank by sku items ×10, 80%, 95% → ×10
four classes from three cut-offs: P6 starts at 94.5%, so C, and P7 at 96.5%, so D items ×10, 50%, 80%, 95% → ×10
one item holding 90% is A, not B, and the next starts at 90% so it is B items ×2, 80%, 95% → ×2
a single item is A with the whole value items ×1, 80%, 95% → ×1
items with no value fall in the last class, ranked by sku items ×3, 80%, 95% → ×3
when nothing has value everything is in the last class items ×2, 80%, 95% → ×2
cumulative share rounds half-up for display (3333, 6667); the class uses the exact share, and C starts at 2/3, past 60% items ×3, 60% → ×3
an empty list is an empty ranking , 80%, 95% →
a duplicate sku is an error items ×2, 80%, 95% → error: duplicate sku "A"
cut-offs out of order are an error items ×1, 95%, 80% → error: cutoffBasisPoints must ascend strictly within 1..9999
Show the other 7 tests
CaseArgumentsExpected
a cut-off of 100% is an error items ×1, 80%, 100% → error: cutoffBasisPoints must ascend strictly within 1..9999
no cut-offs is an error items ×1, → error: cutoffBasisPoints needs 1 to 25 cut-offs
a negative quantity is an error items ×1, 80% → error: annualQuantity must be a whole number, not negative
a fractional quantity is an error items ×1, 80% → error: annualQuantity must be a whole number, not negative
a negative unit cost is an error items ×1, 80% → error: unitCost must not be negative
items in two currencies are an error items ×2, 80% → error: currency mismatch
a total too large to scale is an error items ×1, 80% → error: the total annual value is too large

More from the author

**Which class an item on a boundary falls in.** An item belongs to the class whose band its value *starts* in: it is in class A when the items ranked above it hold less than 80% of the total. So the item that carries the ranking across 80% is still an A item, the top item is always an A item, and an item that starts exactly at 80% is a B. (The other common rule, "cumulative share including the item is at most 80%", can leave class A empty when one item is most of the value.) Every comparison is on whole minor units, never on a rounded percentage; `cumulativeBasisPoints` is reported rounded half-up, for display.

**Ties are deterministic.** Items of equal value are ranked by SKU, ascending (by character code; keep SKUs ASCII for the same order in every language). Items with no value fall in the last class. The result lists every item, highest value first.

Errors: a duplicate SKU, a negative quantity or cost, items in more than one currency, cut-offs that are empty, out of order or outside 1..9999, and totals too large to multiply by 10000 within 2^53 - 1.

Source: the method as described in APICS Dictionary ("ABC classification") and Silver, Pyke and Thomas, *Inventory and Production Management in Supply Chains*, 4th ed., section 2.3.

Files

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