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At a glance

What it countsAlert when count of orders on Credit Hold exceeds 2 standard deviations vs 90D baseline.
Tax treatmentn/a.
CurrencyReporting Currency.
Time window30D
Alert triggercredit holds up >2σ vs baseline
Rolesowner, finance

Calculation

Calculated automatically from your Microsoft Dynamics 365 data. See the At a glance summary above for what the metric tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.

Worked example

US distributor: baseline 8 holds/month, current 22 (+175%). 2σ spike fires alert. Likely cause: rising DSO compressing customer credit limits.

Sibling cards merchants should reference together

CardWhy pair
Orders on Credit HoldUnderlying.
Customer Credit UtilisationPredictive.
DSODriver.

Reconciling against the vendor’s own dashboard

Where to look in Business Central:
See Orders on Credit Hold reconcile.
Cross-connector reconciliation: Stripe payment failures often precede BC credit holds.

Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Threshold tuning? 2σ default. Tighter = 1σ. Looser = 3σ. Seasonal noise? The 90D baseline normalises seasonal patterns.

Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

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