Lara GuevaraSupply Chain expert (Product and Service)

Landed Cost Is Just A Snapshot

26 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, Lara Guevara explains that landed cost should be viewed not as a static fact but as a dated snapshot. The date attached to the cost figure is as important as the number itself because different teams—operations and marketing—often reference cost data from different weeks. This leads to apparent discrepancies that are not errors but misalignments, making the issue harder to detect since no single mistake exists. Recognizing landed cost as a time‑bound snapshot highlights the need for synchronized data timestamps across functions to avoid confusion.

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landed cost is not a fact. It's a snapshot with a date stamped on it, and a date matters as much as the number. Because the reason ops and marketing end up holding different numbers isn't usually that somebody was careless, it's that they're holding snapshots from different weeks and both of them think they have the current one. And nobody's wrong, but everybody's misaligned. It's a much harder problem to spot than somebody making a mistake because there's no mistake to find.