The KeHE recovery playbook.
Billbacks, freight, spoils — the KeHE deduction landscape, how disputes actually work through K-Solve, and the recovery patterns that pay for the review.
Hard-won lessons from the agencies finding the most money: how to spot a Walmart A176 abuse pattern in 30 seconds, which buyer questions actually move authorizations, what to do when your best AE quits with the rolodex. Operator stuff. No fluff.
Walmart’s A176 auto-chargeback isn’t random. We pulled 90 days of disputed lines across 14 agencies and found four patterns that explain 78% of the over-charged dollars. Once you know the patterns, the dispute writes itself.
Billbacks, freight, spoils — the KeHE deduction landscape, how disputes actually work through K-Solve, and the recovery patterns that pay for the review.
MCB, CBPB, OIA, PP, PB — every code that shaves your principal’s check, which ones you can dispute, and how to reconcile 800 a month without drowning in spreadsheets.
Seven years of buyer intel walked out the door in a Moleskine. We talked to four agency owners who survived it — here’s the system they built so it can’t happen again.
It’s not laziness — it’s leverage. A short history of why 20+ retailers settled on 20+ statement formats, and what it costs brokers every Friday afternoon.
EDI fee disputes have a 71% win rate. The reason agencies don’t bother — and the four-step process that turns “this isn’t worth my time” into $24K recovered.
Anomaly detection isn’t magic. Here’s the math behind why a 3.2× baseline charge gets flagged — and why you can’t do it in Excel without a 200-row VLOOKUP nightmare.
We ran our AI across 14 mid-size broker agencies’ Q1 statements. The line-item breakdown of where $53,180 (per agency) quietly disappeared — and which retailer was the biggest offender.
The pattern we caught, the dispute that worked, the buyer who said the quiet part out loud. Operator stuff. No fluff. No “5 tips for productivity.”