# Supply chain fraud cost retailers $100 billion in 2025. Here's how operations teams are fighting back

By MarketScale Newsroom · Published 2026-07-15 · Transportation on MarketScale
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> Retailers lost $100B to preventable fraud in 2025. These 10 operational controls can close the gaps across warehouses, carriers, and returns.

## Key points

- Projected $100 billion loss due to supply chain fraud in 2025.
- Operational controls can mitigate fraud in warehouses, carriers, and returns.
- Industry focus on improving security and efficiency in transportation.

Retailers processed $706 billion in product returns in 2025. Roughly $100 billion of that value was lost not to unavoidable shrink, but to preventable fraud and abuse, according to an analysis by Appriss Retail. For operations and supply chain leaders, those figures make fraud prevention a core cost-control priority, not a compliance afterthought.

Pedro Ramos, Chief Revenue Officer at Appriss Retail, outlined a ten-point framework for reducing exposure across the supply chain, published in Inbound Logistics. The controls span everything from DC receiving practices to cross-channel return validation, and the approach reflects how modern fraud has become a multi-vector problem that no single team or system can address alone.

## Sources

- [10 Tips for Preventing Supply Chain Fraud](https://www.inboundlogistics.com/articles/10-tips-for-preventing-supply-chain-fraud/) (Inbound Logistics)
- [2026 Total Retail Loss Benchmark Report](https://apprissretail.com/2026-total-retail-loss-benchmark-report/) (Appriss Retail)

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