CPG Operator Guide
Profitability Model Governance Guide
Use this guide to define a separate model’s purpose, grain, metric labels, source owners, scenario naming, assumptions, exclusions, version control, testing, and qualified review before construction.
Define purpose and decision boundary
State the question, users, decisions informed, decisions excluded, review period, and accountable model owner.
What to include
- question and users
- decision boundary
- model owner
Lock model grain
Define product, SKU, customer, channel, location, unit, currency, and time grain and any external aggregation.
What to include
- entity grain
- unit and currency
- time grain
Define metric labels and scope
State operator-policy definitions for revenue, COGS, variable channel cost, contribution, gross margin, fixed cost, allocation, and profitability labels.
What to include
- metric label
- included items
- policy owner
Assign source ownership
Name the system or record, date, owner, refresh method, validation owner, and known limitations for each input category.
What to include
- source
- owner and date
- limitations
Separate actual, budget, forecast, and scenario states
Require explicit state labels and timestamps and prohibit replacing missing actuals with an unlabeled assumption.
What to include
- state label
- timestamp
- missing-value treatment
Document assumptions, allocations, and exclusions
Record calculation ownership, allocation policy, unsupported items, missing-value treatment, and factors outside scope.
What to include
- assumptions
- allocation policy
- exclusions
Define refresh, version, and change control
State update cadence, version identifier, change log, approval path, historical lock, and rollback or correction process.
What to include
- update trigger
- version and log
- approval and correction
Define testing and review handoffs
Name reconciliation checks, test cases, reviewers, sign-off limits, unresolved questions, and separate accounting or executive decisions.
What to include
- tests
- reviewers
- sign-off limits
How this page fits the Tools system
The Channel Contribution Margin Planner executes CHANNEL-CONTRIBUTION-V1 as one bounded method; this page owns governance questions for a separate model only.
The guide ends with a governance specification, not a connected model, calculation, reconciliation, forecast, optimization, approval, or business decision.
What this page does—and does not—show
This guide organizes governance questions for a separate model. It does not build, connect, calculate, reconcile, validate, forecast, optimize, or approve a profitability model or business decision.
The Channel Contribution Margin Planner executes CHANNEL-CONTRIBUTION-V1 as one bounded method; this guide does not extend, connect, aggregate, or automate it.
Evidence and review boundary
Tier C. This guide organizes governance questions for a separate model. It does not build, connect, calculate, reconcile, validate, forecast, optimize, or approve a profitability model or business decision.
Finance and model owners, with accounting, data, sales, operations, procurement, tax, legal, executive, or audit review appropriate to model use.
No external rate or rule is embedded; values and assumptions come from the user.
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