Inventory Shrinkage from Theft and Untracked Breakage Losses

$100,000-$300,000 annually per bar account (20%+ shrinkage on $500K-$1.5M annual liquor purchases = $100K-$300K loss); impacts credit decisions and customer retention • $12,000-$25,000 quarterly on country clubs with $150k+ quarterly alcohol spend (20% shrinkage + reconciliation delays causing over/under pricing) • $140,000-$280,000 annually per brand (estimated 20-25% shrinkage on $700K-$1.4M wholesale volume; events magnify loss due to high-pressure, rapid-turnover service)

Bar managers maintain handwritten bottle logs; informal member-of-staff communication about breakage; inventory adjustments made manually by bar manager based on 'best guess'; no formal shrinkage reporting to club leadership; undocumented waste tracked verbally • Brand Portfolio Manager receives quarterly shrinkage reports from chain procurement; manually cross-references against POS data, estimates loss per SKU, creates justification spreadsheets for brand performance reviews, relies on chain's damage claims process (often incomplete) • Casino bars use fragmented systems: some bars track manually on paper, others use basic POS without integration; security cameras record but are reviewed only after incident; bartenders report breakage verbally; night manager creates summary sheets in Excel; no unified tracking across 5-20+ bar locations within property