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Judgment & ambiguity · When to act

Your inventory system flags a slow-building discrepancy in one high-value SKU — the counts are drifting from the perpetual record across several stores, but slowly enough that it could be scan errors, receiving mistakes, or theft. Do you act on it now or wait until the pattern is unambiguous?

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Your inventory system flags a slow-building discrepancy in one high-value SKU — the counts are drifting from the perpetual record across several stores, but slowly enough that it could be scan errors, receiving mistakes, or theft. Do you act on it now or wait until the pattern is unambiguous?

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