Your Fill Rate Says 99%. Walmart Scores You 84%.
A brand's internal fill rate reads 99%. Walmart's OTIF scorecard reads 84%. Both are right. The 14.8-point gap costs $57K a year, and it hides in the one number the brand doesn't watch.
Short-Ship Costs: A 99% Fill Rate Still Loses $298K a Year
At a 99.3% fill rate, a synthetic $25M brand's short-ship cost reaches $894K over three years. Four dimensions, every dollar traced to a platform event.
A Governed Product Master Data Model Eliminates 62% of Data-Driven Chargebacks
Most CPG chargebacks trace to twelve product master fields. A governed product master data model (brand to pallet, GTINs at every level) closes the gap.
EDI Reconciliation Stops at the Acknowledgment. Nobody Checks That the Contents Agree.
EDI reconciliation at most CPG brands stops at the 997. Quantities, prices, and item identities go unchecked across the PO lifecycle.
The 4-Cent GS1-128 Shipping Label That Triggers a $500 Chargeback
A single wrong digit in a GS1-128 shipping label GTIN generates retailer chargebacks thousands of times the label's cost. Most brands verify labels by eye.
Contract to Cash: 15-25 Cents of Every Invoiced Dollar Disappears
Contract to cash: of every invoiced dollar, 15-25 cents disappears into deductions, chargebacks, and timing gaps. Most brands never calculate it.
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Co-Packer Quality Agreements: What Food Brands Miss
Most co-packer agreements protect IP but miss the operational clauses that prevent retailer chargebacks, GTIN ownership, ASN obligations, fill rate.
Distributor Deduction Management: The Recovery Rate Most Brands Never Measure
Most CPG brands track deduction win rate, not dispute rate: the share of invalid deductions ever contested. Distributor deduction management starts there.
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The Supply Chain Data Quality Audit Nobody Has Run Yet
CPG deductions run 5-15% of gross sales. Net margins sit at 3-5%. A supply chain data quality audit traces the gap to twelve fields nobody has audited.
EDI 856 ASN Errors: The Chargeback Source Nobody Audits
EDI 856 ASN errors generate more chargebacks than any other EDI document. Four error types cause most of them. All are data fixes, not logistics changes.
OTIF Fines Are a Data Problem, Not a Logistics Problem
Most OTIF fines at specialty food brands trace back to product master data errors, not late trucks. Where the data breaks, and what it costs.
Product Master Data Management: 12 Fields Cause Most CPG Chargebacks
Twelve fields disagreeing across three systems cause most CPG chargebacks. Product master data management starts here: the fields, the systems, the cost.