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Judgment & ambiguity · Calibrating confidence

A cycle count turns up a 300-unit shortfall on a high-value SKU against system stock, but you can't tell yet whether it's theft, a putaway error, a scanning miss, or bad data. How sure are you it's a real loss, and what do you tell finance right now?

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A cycle count turns up a 300-unit shortfall on a high-value SKU against system stock, but you can't tell yet whether it's theft, a putaway error, a scanning miss, or bad data. How sure are you it's a real loss, and what do you tell finance right now?

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