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The urgent need to eliminate conflicting data across retail planning and reporting systems — why your numbers don't match and what to do about it.
Every retailer has experienced the meeting where finance’s numbers don’t match planning’s numbers, and neither matches what the buyer sees. The “multiple versions of the truth” problem isn’t a data quality issue — it’s an architecture issue.
This paper breaks down the structural causes: disconnected systems, different aggregation logic, timing mismatches between plan and actuals, and the spreadsheet layer that sits on top of everything trying to reconcile it all.
More importantly, it outlines what a single-source-of-truth planning architecture actually looks like in practice — not in theory.
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