Prove · baseline BL-043
Inventory Optimization
Inventory Optimization, all regions, as run before the agents were switched on. Owner at the time of measurement: Director, Inventory Management.
How it was measured
Time and motion
Sign-off
Who accepted this as the number to beat
Where the benefit lands
Account and cost center this baseline reconciles to
Benefit lines resting on this baseline
5 lines · $11.46m claimed · $10.20m realized · $1.59m verified
| Period | Category | Claimed | Realized | Verified | Status | Variance | Journal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY25 Q3 | Outsourced cost | $1.48m | $1.24m | not verified | Not verified | Volume Seasonal volume ran ahead of baseline, which flatters the realized figure rather than the claim. | not posted |
| FY25 Q4 | Outsourced cost | $2.14m | $1.84m | $1.59m | Partly verified | Rate The blended labor rate used in the claim sits above the rate actually charged to the cost center. | JV-2025Q4-0088 |
| FY26 Q1 | Outsourced cost | $2.74m | $2.47m | not verified | Not verified | Rate The blended labor rate used in the claim sits above the rate actually charged to the cost center. | not posted |
| FY26 Q2 | Outsourced cost | $3.27m | $3.30m | not verified | Not verified | Scope Scope drifted after the baseline was signed. The added work is real but it is not this baseline. | not posted |
| FY26 Q3 | Outsourced cost | $1.83m | $1.35m | not verified | Period open | Period open The period is not closed. The realized figure is a run rate, not a result, and nothing in it has been verified. | not posted |
A benefit realization ledger reconciled to a general ledger needs the customer’s actual baseline figures and account structure. Modeled numbers demonstrate the instrument and prove nothing about the business case.
The measurement window ran FY24 Q3, thirteen weeks over a sample of 13,584. That sample size is on the page because a baseline drawn from twelve cases and one drawn from forty thousand are not the same instrument, and averaging them into a single confidence figure would hide which one you are looking at.
1 of 5 cash lines resting on this baseline carry a journal reference. A benefit line with no journal reference has not touched the general ledger, so it is shown as claimed rather than counted as realized cash.