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Business logic

The words behind the numbers

4 metrics and 5 glossary terms drawn from Caldera Logistics's own language. The semantics — not the SQL — are where the board dispute lives: 3 of 4 metrics are contested (defined more than one way and never reconciled), and 1 is undefined — a name the team uses that no query has ever computed.

contested On-Time Delivery is defined more than one way and never reconciled.
contested Revenue is defined more than one way and never reconciled.
contested Active customer is defined more than one way and never reconciled.
undefined OTIF (On-Time In-Full) is named but never defined or computed here — a gap, not a number.

Metrics & KPIs

4 metrics · 3 contested · 1 undefined
On-Time Delivery
contested headline metric 6.4-pt gap
Defined by OTD · not canonical
delivered_date promised_delivery_date credit_amount ⑂ double-feed
Revenue
contested
Reports two ways: gross billed ($22.04M) vs net of credits ($21.71M). Same credit_amount field that forks OTD forks revenue. No ratified definition of which the board sees.
Defined by Revenue · not canonical
amount credit_amount ⑂ double-feed
Active customer
contested
53 by CRM status vs 60 by 'billed in the last 90 days'. Two populations, both called 'active'.
Defined by Active customer · not canonical
status invoice_date
OTIF (On-Time In-Full)
undefined — never computed
An industry-standard 3PL service metric the team references but has never defined or computed here. A named gap, not a number.
Defined by OTIF · not canonical

Acronyms & terms

5 terms · the shared vocabulary
OTD
term On-Time Delivery
on timeOTD %
Defined twice in the client's own data dictionary and never reconciled — the root of the 6.4-point board dispute.
OTIF
term On-Time In-Full
DIFOT
Standard 3PL metric: delivered on time AND complete. Referenced, never defined here.
SCAC
acronym Standard Carrier Alpha Code
The carrier identifier code; lives on the carriers table.
Revenue
term
Active customer
term