Case studies

Client names are withheld under our standard confidentiality terms. Every figure below was reconciled against the client's general ledger before publication and approved by the client for release.

Freight audit & accessorial recovery engagement illustration
$410k recovered

Freight audit & accessorial recovery

Building products distributor · Springfield, MA · $61M revenue

Six years of LTL invoices had been approved without a rate-file check. Duplicate fuel surcharges and re-delivery accessorials had become routine.

  • Rebuilt the rate file for 14 carriers and reconciled 22 months of invoices
  • Recovered $410,000 in overcharges, of which $286,000 was collected within 90 days
  • Introduced a pre-payment audit step that has held the leakage under 0.4% since
Supplier master consolidation engagement illustration
224 vendors retired

Supplier master consolidation

Regional healthcare group · Providence, RI · 9 sites

612 active vendors, 41% of them transacting less than $5,000 a year, each one carrying onboarding and AP cost.

  • Segmented the master, mapped clinical equivalence and agreed a transition plan with department heads
  • Reduced to 388 vendors over seven months with zero line stoppages
  • Onboarding cycle time fell from 19 days to 6; AP invoice exceptions down 31%
Packaging resourcing with index pricing engagement illustration
14.8% unit cost cut

Packaging resourcing with index pricing

Contract manufacturer · Waterbury, CT · $88M revenue

Corrugate pricing had drifted 23% above the regional benchmark with no contractual mechanism to correct it.

  • Should-cost model built from board grade, flute and regional containerboard index
  • Five-supplier RFP, awarded to two suppliers with a published index clause and a 60-day exit
  • 14.8% unit cost reduction in year one; pricing now moves both ways with the index
Inventory parameter rebuild engagement illustration
$1.9M working capital

Inventory parameter rebuild

Industrial distributor · Albany, NY · 4 branches

Reorder points had not been reviewed since a 2017 ERP migration. Service levels were falling while stock value rose.

  • ABC/XYZ segmentation across 11,400 SKUs with service-level policy by segment
  • Statistical safety stock using supplier-specific lead-time variability
  • $1.9M of working capital released; line fill rate improved from 91.2% to 96.5%
Emergency dual-sourcing programme engagement illustration
Zero downtime

Emergency dual-sourcing programme

Medical device assembler · Danbury, CT

A sole-source moulded component supplier entered Chapter 11 with eleven weeks of cover remaining.

  • Qualified three alternates in six weeks including tooling transfer feasibility
  • Negotiated tooling release and secured a bridge order from the incumbent
  • Production continuity maintained; second source now holds 35% of volume permanently
Facilities services benchmarking engagement illustration
19.4% saved

Facilities services benchmarking

Multi-site food producer · Central MA · 6 plants

Janitorial, pest control and waste contracts had auto-renewed for years across six separately negotiated sites.

  • Consolidated scope into three regional agreements with common SLAs and KPIs
  • Introduced quarterly service audits with credit mechanisms for missed SLAs
  • 19.4% reduction in annual services spend, with measured service quality up
How we count savings

Our measurement rules

Savings claims are easy to inflate. These are the rules we apply to every engagement, and we will happily walk your finance team through them line by line.

Baseline is actual, not budget

We use twelve months of paid invoices, not the number in the plan.

Volume-neutral comparison

Savings are calculated at constant volume so growth is never counted as a win.

Reconciled to the GL

If it does not show up in your ledger within twelve months, it does not go in the report.

One-time versus recurring

Recovery and rebates are reported separately from run-rate reductions.

Cost avoidance is labelled

Avoided increases are reported, but never blended into cash savings.

Client signs off

No figure is published or reused until the client has confirmed it in writing.

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