A container lands at your warehouse. You cut the tape, pull out a unit, and it’s dead. So is the next one. When the dust settles, roughly 30% of the shipment is defective, and your true landed cost per unit sits 40% above what you calculated, because the supplier buried processing fees in the invoice. I’ve heard some version of this story more times than I can count, and honestly, it never gets easier to deliver the news.

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