What Your Deduction Report Isn’t Telling You
- The HRG Team
- Jun 9
- 1 min read
Pull up your latest deduction report.
What do you see? Totals by category. Maybe a breakdown by retailer or claim type. If you’re lucky, there’s a dashboard with charts and heat maps.
But what you probably don’t see is the story.
And that’s the problem.
The Myth of the "Clean Report"
A report that looks "normal" may be hiding:
Incorrect shortage claims masked as valid
Recurring defects that trace back to a third-party logistics error
Policy enforcement changes that spike fines in specific regions
Take "shortages"—the most common deduction type. A single code might hide:
Poor scanning at the dock
Partial shipment receipts
Case count mismatches
Overzealous auto-deduct tools
If your team treats these as one-size-fits-all, they’re missing recovery opportunities. Worse, they’re likely fixing the wrong problem.
What You Need From Your Data
Narrative analysis: What are recurring claims trying to tell you?
Root cause mapping: Which departments are creating friction?
Time-of-year trends: Are deductions spiking around resets or holidays?
Retailer comparisons: Who’s charging you more, and why?
Standard deduction reports don’t reveal any of that. They weren’t built to.
That’s why HRG analyzes deductions line-by-line. We don’t just surface numbers. We uncover the story—so you can rewrite it.
