Theft, shrinkage, and gray‑market diversion under bonded custody

$25,000–$250,000 per year in write-offs for missing or mis-declared bonded stock, duty and tax assessments on goods that cannot be properly accounted for, and lost margin when high-value items slip into off-book channels to meet urgent orders. • $25,000–$400,000 per year in combined physical shrinkage of bonded inventory, write-offs to compensate government and B2B customers for short shipments or quality issues from gray-market diversion, and back-assessed duties/penalties when customs discovers unexplained discrepancies under bond. • $25,000–$400,000 per year in shrinkage and duty liabilities

Accounts Receivable and contract administration teams maintain parallel Excel trackers linking bonded stock to individual government POs and projects, manually updating them from warehouse reports, customs entries, and GRN documents, and exchanging clarifications via email and WhatsApp with warehouse and project managers. • Finance, AR, and warehouse teams pull CSV exports from WMS/ERP, then reconcile them in large Excel workbooks and paper files. They circulate discrepancy lists by email and phone, and rely on supervisors’ memory and handwritten notes to explain missing pallets, mis-labeled lots, or unexplained stock-outs from bonded zones. • Manual tracking via Excel spreadsheets and WhatsApp coordination among specialists.