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For wholesale distributors and retail supermarket chains across Lagos, Onitsha, Kano, and Abuja, inventory shrinkage averages between 4% and 12% of total turnover. In low-margin distribution businesses, this variance often represents the entirety of the company's net profit margin.
Stock leakages occur at specific administrative vulnerabilities:
A tailored ERP system eliminates these failure points by enforcing programmatic verification at every handoff: