Unifying four sales channels into one monthly report
A controlled pilot evaluated a traceable reporting workflow across online, in-store, distributor and wholesale exports.
The brand designs and sells its own products across four very different channels: an online store with a third-party warehouse, its own in-store retail, distributors who mostly take stock on consignment, and wholesale buyers. Every month, someone rebuilt the numbers by hand, retailer by retailer.
The reports did not line up. Each retailer used a different format, some had no barcodes at all, and consignment and buyout revenue followed different rules. Totals rarely matched, and the work left no time for the analysis that actually drives buying and store decisions.
Four channels, four formats
Each retailer's monthly export looked different, so consolidation was manual every time.
No reliable way to match products
Some retailers had no barcodes and used their own SKUs, so the same product appeared under many names.
Consignment and buyout differ
Revenue rules changed by channel, so a single formula gave the wrong number.
Days of manual work, fragile totals
Reporting took days and small mistakes broke the totals that leadership relied on.
We built a reporting engine that takes each retailer's raw file, cleans it into a consistent sheet, and produces category, store and channel summaries plus one management report. A separate safety sheet shows every assumption and edge case, so the numbers are checkable rather than trusted blindly.
A product master and retailer crosswalk match each retailer SKU to a canonical product. Low-confidence matches go to a review sheet for a person to confirm; nothing is silently auto-filled, and consignment rules stay configurable per channel.
- Adapters for the main retailer report formats
- Product master plus a reviewed retailer crosswalk
- Category, store and channel summaries
- A safety sheet that surfaces assumptions and edge cases
- Configurable consignment and buyout revenue rules
One expensive problem, proven before it scales. The A1 to POC method, run in weeks not quarters.
Our delivery practices define human decision ownership, source and output traceability, data boundaries, change control and review evidence.
The credential is held personally by Vincent Lin.
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