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The Hidden Cost of Channel Blindness: Why Manufacturers Must Own Their Dealer Data

Channel blindness turns ambiguous, lagging distributor POs into bad production and allocation decisions. Direct order flow compresses the lag and adds dealer-level resolution-valuable signal, not sell-through.

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