Growth shouldn’t require more headcount. But for many CPG brands, every new retail partnership adds another layer of operational complexity.
Even with partial automation in place, most tools still push exception handling, documentation gathering, and submission work back to analysts — forcing your team into manual triage. And when deduction volume scales faster than your team can manage, you’re pulled into reactive hiring cycles just to keep up.
Once hiring becomes a safety valve, priorities flip. Extra capacity props up volume while growth work and strategic priorities stall.
Glimpse breaks that cycle. As the only platform built to automate deduction management from end to end, we scale deduction work without scaling your headcount.
AI Classification and Validation Prevents Time-Consuming Manual Reviews
Deductions don’t overwhelm teams — manual reviews do. When your analysts spend hours deciphering retailer codes and manually matching line items to invoices, every deduction fuels more operational drag. Headcount creep becomes inevitable long before your team feels “behind.”
And when deduction volume climbs, so do your costs. Without enough team capacity, dispute windows close before analysts can respond. Write-offs make their way into your P&L, and manual effort blocks growth.
Using automation, Glimpse eliminates team-led classification and validation. Our AI-native platform automatically classifies every deduction by type, SKU, and reason — even mapping general ledger and promo codes — so deductions are resolved without any manual prep work.
When Kin Euphorics adopted Glimpse, they streamlined deduction management, avoided labor-intensive manual reviews, and maintained efficiency as they scaled. With over $34K in additional chargebacks pending reversal, they continue to benefit from automated recovery and sustained operational focus.
End-To-End Workflow Automation Eliminates Operational Bottlenecks
Many deduction management tools show you what needs attention, then hand your team the busywork. They might ingest claims and share dashboards, but all dispute orchestration — like entering disputes, following up, and reconciling the results — still lives with your analysts. Instead of a cohesive workflow, you’re left with a long to-do list.
And once disputes start moving, the friction multiplies. Documentation is spread out across multiple systems. Retailer deadlines vary. Statuses sit in inbox threads or spreadsheet trackers. And when manual tasks balloon with deduction volume, slow recovery strains teams, driving the need for additional support.
At Glimpse, we don’t just surface issues — we automate the entire deduction journey. After sourcing deduction details straight from inboxes and retailer portals like KeHE and UNFI, Glimpse flags invalid deductions and prioritizes them for dispute.
Then, the platform collects supporting documentation, files disputes, and reconciles outcomes automatically. As a result, your team recovers more revenue while skipping the tasks that often require additional headcount.
When LN Accounting Advisor turned to Glimpse to automate dispute submissions, their team recovered 27% more revenue for clients, improved resolution speed by 15%, and reclaimed 14+ manual deduction hours each week. Now, their team has the capacity to serve more accounts without overhiring.
Embedded AI and Expert Oversight Reduce Administrative Drag
While automated deduction solutions have a knack for handling volume, many miss the mark when it comes to nuance. Complex tasks — like exception handling, interpreting ambiguous retailer rules, and managing unusual cases — still require human oversight. Automation-only tools put that burden back on your team.
When analysts spend hours chasing down answers and stitching together data, what seems like “just a few exceptions” can quickly turn into full-time overhead. Over time, every hour burned erodes the very margin that automation is meant to protect.
That’s why Glimpse blends deep automation with dedicated human expertise. While our AI handles most standard deduction workflows, our embedded analysts handle complex cases and oversee every single step of the deduction management process. This means your headcount stays stable even as throughput rises.
Pickerfresh proves this model works. By switching to Glimpse’s automation-plus-analyst model, they reclaimed 25 hours per month, lifted their recovery rate to 91%, and increased disputes by 10% — without completing more exception work or layering on more staff.
Predictive Analytics Transform Deductions Into a Strategic Margin Lever
Manual reporting keeps your team stuck reacting to deductions long after the damage hits your books. Most solutions surface trends too late, if at all — making it impossible to spot recurring deduction issues, analyze root causes, and predict margin risks.
Left unchecked, reactive deduction management compounds into bigger problems. Minor unresolved chargeback errors escalate into significant write-offs. Repeat deductions from the same retailer or promotion go unflagged until they’ve cut deep into your margin. Instead of getting ahead of problems, you end up adding analysts just to monitor reports and chase fixes.
At Glimpse, our AI analyzes real-time patterns across retailers, SKUs, deduction reasons, and POs. Your team gets proactive alerts when a retailer over-indexes on compliance fees, a promo triggers recurring chargebacks, or a freight pattern hints at future claims. That means you solve problems upstream — before dispute volume forces unnecessary staffing decisions.
Kin Euphorics saw this shift firsthand. After recovering $10K from a single chargeback using Glimpse, they didn’t just recoup dollars — they unlocked visibility that lets them scale without adding headcount. Now, they protect margin as retail volume grows.
Build a Foundation for Sustainable Growth With Glimpse
True scalability isn’t just about keeping up with volume — it’s about building systems that strengthen as your business grows.
With Glimpse, deduction management becomes one of those systems. What was once a reactive process turns into a foundation built for scale: accurate, efficient, and fully aligned with your business priorities.
Book a demo to see how Glimpse can help you manage more deductions without growing your team.
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