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Total Correction Metric

Essential knowledge

Intended Audience:

Business User

Author:

Movyn John

Changed on:

20 Oct 2025

Overview

Learn about the Total Correction Metric in Fluent Analytics

Key points

  • On hand inventory is offset by any corrections and thereby reduces the total availability to sales channels
  • Product issues or location processes can result in higher correction quantities

What it measures

Total inventory quantities that have been corrected.

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When to use this metric

  • Monitor corrected quantities arising from rejections and short picks at fulfilling locations
  • Assess inventory inaccuracy issues by locations/products

How to interpret

  • Good performance: Low levels of correction quantities
  • Potential issues: High levels of corrections potentially indicate inventory discrepancies and/or trends by product/location
  • Benchmark guidance: Lowering correction quantities has a direct impact on lowering rejection rates

Technical details

Formula: 

SUM(ABS(inventoryQuantity.qty)) where type = {TYPE_CORRECTION} within the selected time period

Configuration:

  • TYPE_CORRECTION: Type definitions for inventory quantity corrections (default: CORRECTION)