The reliable spine
The reliable spine is non-AI: the rules that define each threshold, the arithmetic that tests every line against it, the integrations that pull the records, and the routing that puts each flag in front of an owner.
FMCG & Packaged Food
Anomaly Alerts
The leaks that hurt most in FMCG move quietly: a claim that drifts above the scheme rule, a platform deduction that breaks from the agreed terms, a yield that slips on one shift, near-expiry stock building at a distributor, a freight bill running over the rate card. Each sits inside a portal, a register or one person's memory, and is only noticed after the money is gone.
Who has it
All segments, sharpest for the maker on the trade-spend and yield anomalies and for the depot and super-stockist on the claims-pass-through and near-expiry anomalies.
What we build
A watch layer over the firm's own records that raises a flag the moment a number drifts from its rule: a claim above its scheme terms, a deduction off the agreed terms, a yield below standard on a line or shift, stock crossing a near-expiry threshold, freight over the rate card, a distributor outstanding past its limit. Each flag carries the source line and routes to a named owner; the alert proposes, a person acts on it.
What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
Automation for the routine. A person on every decision that matters.
Where AI helps
AI is limited to bounded reading, extraction, matching and clustering from the firm's own data, for example reading a scanned claim form or a debit note and grouping the recurring exceptions; it never owns the number, the approval, the promise or the decision.
Who signs off
A named person signs off anything touching money, stock, a customer promise, a regulated filing, a payment, a price, a credit decision or a people decision.
What changes day to day
Drift on claims, deductions, yield, near-expiry stock and freight is caught while it can still be acted on, with the source line attached and a named owner, instead of surfacing weeks later at month-end.
Illustrative outcome
Trade-spend, yield, near-expiry and freight anomalies caught early, each with a line-level trail and a named owner. Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Path to the build
How this one gets built.
Book a free 60-minute call, then a free Blueprint on the firm's own records. Deep-dive and build, followed by run and govern so the workflow keeps paying back.
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