An independent picture of what your company is actually paying for.
A full review of costs, contracts, and processes: no opinions, just facts and concrete amounts to recover.
Problem
Most companies have no complete, current picture of what they pay for and to whom. Contracts signed over years, changing suppliers and a growing number of invoices make overpayment, duplicate charges and outdated terms invisible in day-to-day work, until someone from outside looks at them systematically. The typical mechanism is not that a bad contract was signed — it is that a good contract stopped being good, because the company grew and its terms did not. Agreements auto-renew for years without being repriced against the market. Discount thresholds set at a previous order scale stay in place although volume has long passed them, sometimes twice or three times over. Volume discounts on servicing are often calculated for a fleet half the current size. At the same time nobody inside has any reason to notice: purchasing defends its contracts as market rate, finance sees only the total, and the board has no data to point at the source. An audit is not an assessment of anyone's work — it is a comparison of what the company pays today with what its current position would justify.
Our approach
We review costs, contracts and processes in a chosen area: purchasing, operations, finance, or across the whole business.
We set a volume threshold above which a contract enters the audit, so the work goes where the result is.
We compare contract terms with the market and identify clauses working against the company.
We set actual order volumes against the discount thresholds written into the contracts.
We check invoices and payments against contracts, looking for overpayments, duplicate charges and unused services.
We identify which contracts have auto-renewed without being repriced against the market.
We present the findings as a list of specific, costed opportunities, each with a recommendation.
This is for you if
- Nobody in the company has a complete picture of all contracts and costs
- Contracts with key suppliers have not been reviewed for several years
- The board wants independent confirmation that the company is not overpaying
- The company has grown while its commercial terms stayed the same
- Margin is falling despite rising sales and it is not clear where it goes
- You need costed material before a conversation with a supplier
What you get
- An audit report listing identified savings and risks, in cash terms
- An analysis of contracts for clauses working against the company
- A statement of actual order volume against the discount thresholds in the contracts
- Verification that invoices match contract terms
- A list of contracts auto-renewing without repricing
- Prioritised recommendations with estimated time to deliver
- Source material for renegotiation, ready to use with the supplier
Example projects
- An audit of utility and telecoms contracts across a network of locations
- A review of purchasing costs in a manufacturing business, covering prices and payment terms
- Verification of licence and subscription fees for the IT tools in use
- An analysis of several years of order history at key suppliers against discount thresholds
- Breaking fleet cost down to its components, as far as cost per kilometre and the share taken by fuel
- Comparing rents at each location with market offers for buildings of the same class
- Reviewing the supplier base against how many suppliers the company actually works with regularly
Facing something similar?
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