Deductions arrive coded, unexplained, and months after the shipment. Until each one is mapped back to a root cause, you can neither dispute them nor stop them recurring. Most brands are absorbing the same handful of failures over and over.
A small number of failure modes account for most of the money: advance ship notices sent late or not matching the cartons, labels that do not meet the retailer's specification, shipments arriving outside the delivery window, and orders shipped short or substituted without approval. Each has a different owner inside your operation, which is why a single fix rarely works.
Disputes have deadlines, and most brands miss them because nobody owns the queue. We build a process your team can run: deductions coded on arrival, evidence assembled from the shipment record, and a weekly rhythm that files within the retailer's window. Prevention follows from the same coding, because once you can see which failure is costing the most, you know what to fix first.