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The Report Was Perfect. The Decision Cost Us Millions.

A self-serve dashboard built on a shared data model showed a sales decline that triggered inventory cuts. The data was correct but the metric’s meaning had drifted. The result: stockouts, missed revenue, and a hard lesson on why semantic governance and clear metric definitions are essential, even wh...

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