As CPG brands prepare for 2026 budgeting conversations, the operational landscape has never been more demanding. Trade complexity continues to rise, margins are under relentless pressure, and finance teams are being asked to do more with fewer resources.
This is especially true for deduction management. Manual processes lead to lost revenue, hidden inefficiencies, and strained finance teams. Over time, these hidden leaks can cost companies hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars.
That’s why now is the time to treat deduction management as a lever for growth — not just another box to check.
Why AI-Powered Deductions Are Mission-Critical
Managing deductions manually is a fantastically tedious way to burn out your finance team. Hours disappear in endless spreadsheet hunting and patching together scattered data, making it nearly impossible to spot errors or catch unauthorized claims. This steals energy and attention away from higher-value work.
That’s assuming these revenue recovery efforts even happen. With the reactive nature of finance work, tasks like deduction management often get deprioritized. Without automation to help, long-term profit leakage adds up, quietly eroding your company’s profitablity.
The solution is AI-powered deduction management. Simple workflows, sharp visibility, and a real focus on protecting your margins can make all the difference between lagging behind and leading the sector.
Turning Deductions Into Opportunity
You may be tempted to write off deductions as a small piece of the finance puzzle, but business as usual won’t cut it anymore. These transactions are so much more than a nuisance — they’re legitimate threats to momentum and margin that can add up to millions of dollars down the drain.
And the stakes are higher than ever. According to McKinsey, CPG brands with digital and AI capabilities perform three times better on shareholder returns than peers in the sector who don’t. Yet recent data from Apollo Academy shows that AI adoption is actually trending downward for large companies.
The good news is that deduction management is the best place to start. It’s an area often buried in manual spreadsheets and repetitive reviews — with a direct impact on cash flow. Automating with AI delivers quick, measurable wins: immediate savings, a better view of revenue leaks, and relief for overstretched finance teams.
Recover Revenue And Streamline Your Workflows With Glimpse
That’s where Glimpse comes in, giving your finance team the bandwidth to focus on moving the company forward, rather than operating in constant triage and reactive workflows.
Unlike free or manual approaches to deduction management, Glimpse combines advanced AI automation with in-house deduction experts who work alongside your finance team to guide every claim and decision — delivering white-glove service and accountability.
Your dedicated Glimpse analyst will help bring unique insights to light, like slotting fees and which coupons are winning. This helps you improve your promo strategy and better manage your spend.
Glimpse’s platform automatically connects and reconciles your data from ERPs, distributor portals, inboxes, retailer feeds, and promotional systems, creating a single source of truth for your finance team. Your retailer claims, distributor paperwork, and the data needed to resolve deductions all live in one place, updating in real time. No more hunting for backup in scattered inboxes or chasing down details in legacy tools.
The value goes way beyond time savings. Glimpse delivers real ROI from day one, with hundreds of brands seeing a 2–3x annual return on investment, 10x return in accounting savings, and 33x recovered funds.
Take immi, for example. By switching to Glimpse, they recovered $50,000+ in lost dollars in just a few months, including $10,200 from a single freight dispute.
This is the new reality for the CPG sector. With AI-powered deduction management, finance teams focus on building retailer partnerships, advancing growth strategies, and, most importantly, protecting margins for the future.
Protect Your Profits In 2026
Invalid deductions may be unavoidable, but losing millions of dollars to them is not. As 2026 planning accelerates, now is the time to reframe deductions management — from a cost center into a reliable source of profit protection and growth capacity.
Book a demo to see how leading brands are recovering revenue, strengthening cash flow, and powering growth with Glimpse.
