diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/inventory/inventory-cleanup.bb b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/inventory/inventory-cleanup.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cdb146c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/inventory/inventory-cleanup.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+SUMMARY = "Copy Witherspoon inventory cleanup yaml for inventory manager"
+PR = "r1"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${IBMBASE}/COPYING.apache-2.0;md5=34400b68072d710fecd0a2940a0d1658"
+
+inherit allarch
+inherit phosphor-inventory-manager
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}"
+
+SRC_URI = "file://inventory-cleanup.yaml"
+
+do_install() {
+        install -D inventory-cleanup.yaml ${D}${base_datadir}/events.d/inventory-cleanup.yaml
+}
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${base_datadir}/events.d/inventory-cleanup.yaml"
diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/inventory/phosphor-inventory-manager_%.bbappend b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/inventory/phosphor-inventory-manager_%.bbappend
index 5e3aff4..9b5b948 100644
--- a/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/inventory/phosphor-inventory-manager_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/inventory/phosphor-inventory-manager_%.bbappend
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 PACKAGECONFIG_append = " associations"
 SRC_URI += "file://associations.json"
 
+
+DEPENDS_append_witherspoon = " inventory-cleanup"
+
 do_install_append() {
     install -d ${D}${base_datadir}
     install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/associations.json ${D}${base_datadir}/associations.json