Most compliance failures don't start with fraud or negligence. They start with drift — small process gaps that nobody fixed because the counts were close enough and shipments kept going out. Then an auditor walks in and starts asking questions you thought you'd answered years ago. Here's what tends to surface. Location records that don't match physical stock. This is the big one. If your WMS says 144 units of SKU 7823-B are in rack C-14 and the auditor counts 97, the conversa