The Vendor Scorecard Metrics Retailers Actually Track
Five retailers, five scorecards, no two measuring the same thing. At Cinderhaven, $9,450 in service-level fines sits under $180,000 of delist risk.
How to Dispute a Retailer Deduction, Portal by Portal
How to dispute a retailer deduction across Walmart, UNFI, KeHE, and Kroger: filing windows, the evidence that wins, and the mistakes that auto-deny.
Kroger Deduction Codes, Decoded: Lavante, PRGX, and the 180-Day Clock
A plain-English guide to Kroger deductions: shortages, list cost, EDI, and ORAD. What each means, which you can dispute in Lavante, and by when.
Walmart Deduction Codes, Decoded: Code 22, OTIF Fines, and What You Can Actually Dispute
A plain-English guide to Walmart deductions: Codes 22, 25, and 13, plus OTIF and SQEP fines. What each means, which you can dispute in APDP, and by when.
Deduction Recovery: 85 Percent of Deduction Dollars Are Never Recovered, and the Problem Is Operational, Not Financial
Deduction recovery at specialty food brands runs under 15% of deducted dollars. Five compounding operational failures, not failed disputes, explain the gap.
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.
The GDSN Attribute Errors That Get Your Item Rejected
Seven GDSN validation errors cause most retailer rejections, brand name mismatches, missing GLNs, barcode type errors. Per-field fixes and what they cost.
Retailer Chargebacks: Four Root Causes, Most of the Damage
Most retailer chargebacks concentrate in four root cause categories. How to run the twelve-month diagnostic that maps each one to a fixable data field.
Co-Packer Agreements: Five Operational Clauses That Decide Who Pays the Chargeback
Co-packer agreements cover IP and liability. Five operational clauses decide who absorbs the retailer chargebacks: GTIN ownership, case scans, ASN, fill rate.
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 Data Reconciliation: Why Your ERP, Data Pool, and Retailer Portal Disagree
Your ERP, data pool and retailer portal disagree on twelve fields. How to reconcile them, and why one mismatch yields a different code at each retailer.