SoloTruth ARM Industry Report

The Asset Truth Gap

Ghost assets, audit exposure, and the cost of physical-to-financial drift in warehousing and distribution.

For CFOs, controllers, and operations leaders in warehousing, distribution, and third-party logistics.

10-30%
of assets on the average register are ghost assets
Kroll Advisory, 2025
up to 65%
of asset records are unreliable for reporting
Kroll Advisory, 2025
71%
of logistics already runs asset monitoring
Omdia, 2025 (n=603)
under 6 mo
modeled payback on continuous verification
SoloTruth ARM model

What the report covers

One argument in three parts: why your register drifts from physical reality, what that drift costs on the balance sheet and in the audit, and the standard that closes the gap.

The Gap

A design constraint, not a discipline problem

In SAP, Oracle, and Dynamics, physical tracking and the fixed asset subledger are not natively connected. Assets move, break, and get replaced every day. The register does not. The result is ghost assets on the books and zombie assets off them.

The Cost

Eight ways drift charges you

Most teams measure only phantom depreciation, which is less than a third of the exposure. Audit labor, valuation errors, duplicate CapEx, and impairment risk add up. Modeled gross annual exposure runs $1.45M to $4.05M at $100M in gross fixed assets.

The Standard

Continuous verification

The annual count is accurate one day a year. Continuous verification, run by the operators who already work the assets and governed by human review before any ledger change, keeps the register true every shift. Process software records history. Proof software verifies reality.

The SoloTruth ARM architecture

SoloTruth ARM platform architecture: Evidence Layer, Control Layer, and Systems of Record.

ARM sits above your ERP. It does not replace it.

See what the gap is costing you

Read the full report, then book a 30-minute strategy call. We will walk through your asset base, your verification cadence, and your specific exposure across the eight cost categories, and build the ROI case on your own numbers.

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