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Merch features last week's revenue heroes. ERP cost is empty. Fill the margin contract first: the answer is unknown if cost is missing, and there is no ranked profit list. The ~$791/mo platform cost floor at 50,000 sessions is planning cost, not margin found.
Palaniappan PThe sales tile is green while ads on an advertised ATP=0 SKU keep spending. Name your feeds, rank by blast radius, cap the now-list at seven, and keep the tower read-only. Do not start a fleet.
Palaniappan PCheckout worked, then payments, stock, or fraud said no. An agent investigates; refunds and cancels wait for a person. Planning silhouette ~$791/mo at 50K sessions; not a client refund KPI.
Palaniappan PMerch Slack says take 10% off a MAP SKU. This week: Maintain, Increase, Decrease, Promote, Bundle, or Clear, with no updatePrice. Baymard 70.22% measures checkout abandonment; it is not pricing ROI.
Palaniappan PA missing care line or a $0 price is a chargeback, not a content nicety. The agent drafts. A merchandiser publishes. Run 10 products this week. We are not publishing a completeness score.
Palaniappan PBefore a copilot picks a winner, your SKUs have to be comparable. Baymard still puts cart abandonment at 70.22%. This is a merchant audit of missing fields, mixed units, and lying facets, not a strategic keynote.
Palaniappan PSEO is not dead. McKinsey and EuroCommerce (June 2026) say 61% of European consumers already use AI for product discovery. Run both paths: classic feeds plus honest structured facts agents can retrieve.
Palaniappan PWhen a shopper asks your copilot to compare two tees, it reads one object per SKU, not the PDP HTML. Baymard still puts cart abandonment at 70.22%. The passport is the shopping-agent read slice, not the full PIM contract.
Palaniappan PShopper asks for a wide waterproof shoe in stock. Rank on fit and stock, not "people also bought." Cart abandonment sits at 70.22%, and wrong recs do not fix it.
Palaniappan PPackaging crush shows up in reviews before it shows up in tickets. A 30-day ops brief names themes and owners. Public replies wait for a person. We are not publishing a star-rating lift.
Palaniappan PMonday, the unsigned PO packet. An agent drafts qty, vendor, and need-by. Qty over 2× 28-day velocity stays HITL. A buyer still sends it.
Palaniappan PMonday, the RFQ clipboard. An agent drafts from customer price and ATP. Over the $5,000 fixture cap stays HITL. CPQ still issues the quote.
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