A manufacturer found CHF 1.05M a year leaking through freight invoices

What was built

Intellyse audits freight invoices line by line against the carrier contracts that should govern them. It detects duplicate charges, wrong rates, currency and Incoterm errors, raises the disputes with carriers and tracks the resulting credit notes. The case study covers a Swiss machine manufacturer’s air and parcel spend.

How it works

1. Every invoice line is checked against the carrier contract — not against a price list — so out-of-contract rates are caught at line level.
2. Error classes are separated — duplicates, wrong rates, FX and Incoterm mistakes — because each needs a different dispute route.
3. Recovered credit notes are tracked separately from identified opportunity, so the realized number stays honest.

The result

For the Swiss manufacturer: CHF 1.05M of annual savings identified, CHF 313K already realized per year, CHF 14K in credit notes recovered, and 263+ hours saved. A second case — ocean freight for an adhesive manufacturer — identifies EUR 722,598 of year-one value with realization pending.

What we can’t verify

Both cases are published by Intellyse; the client is generalized and no independent audit is shown. The larger figure is identified opportunity, not cash — the realized CHF 313K is the number to trust, and the ocean case’s value is still pending.

Sources

• Intellyse — case study index
• Intellyse — air and parcel audit (machine manufacturer)
• Intellyse — ocean freight audit (adhesive manufacturer)