The retail supply chain is evolving fast. Suppliers are under more pressure than ever to recover lost revenue, optimize margins, and make smarter decisions using data. At STAT, that challenge has become an opportunity.
In a recent conversation, STAT President and CEO Mark Schwartz and SVP of Technology Jay Gawronek shared how STAT has evolved from a deduction recovery company into a technology-driven revenue intelligence platform built for the future of retail.
When STAT first launched in 2017, the company focused almost entirely on deduction reconciliation and recovery within the Walmart ecosystem. Much of the work was manual, powered by spreadsheets and Excel scripts.
Today, that intelligence has been automated, and enhanced by AI.
STAT now operates with advanced analytics infrastructure, machine learning, AI-driven automation, and large-scale data processing systems that allow the company to uncover opportunities suppliers, and competitors, often miss.
According to Jay Gawronek, technology has fundamentally changed how the company operates:
“We are moving more and more in the direction of analyzing big data and coming up with a far better service than we had before.”
This evolution has also transformed the role of STAT’s internal teams. Analysts and customer experience professionals are spending less time manually building reports and more time interpreting insights, identifying patterns, and delivering strategic value to clients.
One recurring theme throughout the discussion was simple: get the data.
Modern retail recovery and margin optimization depend on the ability to collect, process, and interpret massive amounts of information across multiple business functions.
Traditional software approaches often focus on isolated deduction events. STAT’s approach is different.
Its revenue intelligence platform analyzes entire operational ecosystems, including:
By evaluating these data points together, STAT identifies patterns and opportunities that suppliers are unlikely to uncover internally. This multidimensional analysis allows suppliers to move beyond reactive recovery efforts and toward proactive revenue optimization.
Artificial intelligence continues to dominate business conversations, but STAT’s leadership sees AI as more than a buzzword.
STAT’s AI and machine learning have trained on STAT’s data — its recognized expertise in handling complex revenue reconciliation and its automation intelligence — creating practical tools that improve accuracy, automate analysis, and generate actionable insights at scale.
The company has invested heavily in scalable infrastructure capable of ingesting and processing large volumes of retail and supply chain data in real time.
Jay Gawronek explained that modern computing power allows STAT to compare data across multiple dimensions in ways that were previously impossible for manual analysts or traditional pivot-table reporting.
This technology enables STAT to:
A major milestone discussed in the conversation was STAT’s acquisition of The Moresby Group in January 2026.
While STAT historically focused on revenue recovery and optimization, Moresby brings deep expertise in supply chain cost savings and procurement intelligence.
Moresby works with suppliers, distributors, logistics providers, and third-party logistics companies, among others, to extend their procurement teams’ capabilities to the long-tail of the supply chain, improving supply chain profitability.
The acquisition creates powerful synergies between the two organizations.
According to Schwartz, the combined companies will:
As Gawronek described it, the combination becomes “greater than the sum of its parts.”
With larger datasets and more sophisticated analytics comes a greater responsibility to protect client information.
STAT’s leadership emphasized that security is built directly into the architecture of the revenue intelligence platform.
This is especially important when working with enterprise retail suppliers and handling sensitive financial and operational data.
Gawronek noted that while AI often captures headlines, data security is equally important behind the scenes.
STAT’s approach prioritizes:
For suppliers operating in complex retail environments, trust and security are essential components of any analytics partnership.
One of the strongest differentiators discussed during the conversation was STAT’s ability to recover dollars suppliers and competitors fail to identify.
According to Schwartz, many competitors tout their software capabilities yet still approach deduction recovery through traditional lenses and legacy methodologies. STAT intentionally built a different model powered by embedding its expertise into automation and AI, providing broader data visibility, and deeper analysis.
That difference leads to measurable outcomes for clients:
The company continues to innovate, developing real-time capabilities that will allow clients to identify and respond to issues immediately instead of through post-event recovery.
As retail supply chains become more complex, suppliers need more than visible deduction recovery. They need intelligent systems capable of turning data into their strategic advantage.
STAT believes the future lies in combining:
The goal is not only to recover lost dollars, but to help suppliers avoid those losses entirely.
With expanding technology investments, the addition of The Moresby Group, and a growing focus on actionable intelligence, STAT Recovery Services has positioned itself to lead the next generation of retail revenue management and optimization.
For suppliers navigating increasingly complicated retail ecosystems, that evolution could not come at a better time.