When shared rack space skews product margins

Shared rack overhead allocated by sales value often punishes fast sellers and flatters bulky slow movers that occupy the expensive high bays. The margin report then steers purchasing toward the wrong replenishment pattern.

A cubic-metre or pallet-position driver usually tells a clearer story on mixed floors. Interview the warehouse planner before you accept last year’s driver as gospel.

Freight pooling creates a second distortion when express customer channels ride free on standard routes. Sample one quarter of invoices and rebuild the pool with lane-level weights.

SmartDistSys allocation checks stop at a recalculated sample and a margin distortion note. We do not take over your monthly close — we show where the current map misleads.