Case Study: a large consumer product group company streamlines ocean freight auditing with Acuitive Solutions

Top 30 Importer Leaves 1950 and Automates the Audit Process

The customer, a large consumer product group company, faced a fragmented and highly manual ocean freight audit process across its 100 global affiliates. This inefficiency prevented them from fully leveraging negotiated credit terms on their $60 million freight spend. They sought to centralize and automate this process using Acuitive Solutions' pre-payment audit system.

Acuitive Solutions implemented its automated system to validate invoices, flag exceptions, and allocate costs directly into the customer's financials. This reduced the finance team's direct involvement to less than 1% of transactions. The solution ensured adherence to GAAP principles and allowed the company to fully leverage its credit terms. A company executive stated the value of redirecting resources from clerical tasks to creative problem-solving was a hundred-fold beyond the software's cost.