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TRANSACTION VARIANCE DETECTION

Recover margin already in your P&L.

Across every supplier and customer relationship, transactions quietly drift from contracted terms. Overpayments, billing errors, rate misapplication, missed escalations these variances rarely show up in spend analytics. They're already paid, already booked, already eroding margin. Spendkey matches every transaction, vendor and customer, against your contracted terms automatically, surfaces every variance, and routes recovery back to your P&L all without manual audit effort. Gain back margin you've already earned, without renegotiating a single contract.

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AUDIT WORKFLOW

Match. Identify. Recover. Remediate.

Recovery starts with rigorous matching. Spendkey's transaction matching runs every invoice and PO line-by-line against contracted rate, scope, and terms  across both vendor and customer contracts. Variances surface automatically: overcharges, billing errors, rate misapplication, missed escalations, and shortfalls on customer-side recoveries. Nothing slips through manual sampling.

Identified variances are packaged into evidence-backed claims, full audit trail and supporting documentation included ready to present to suppliers or customers. Margin flows back to your P&L within weeks, not quarters. And because recovery alone leaves the same errors to recur, root causes are fixed at source: contract terms updated, PO templates corrected, compliance controls embedded. Make recovery a structural improvement, not a one-time clean-up.

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AUDIT COVERAGE

One audit. Every contracted term. Both sides of the ledger.

A single-sided audit only ever catches half the leakage. Spendkey's Layer 1 audit covers both supplier and customer contracts surfacing overpayments on what you paid, and under-recoveries on what you were owed. Variances are identified, margin is recovered, and terms are remediated so the same issues don't resurface.

Ongoing compliance monitoring keeps recovered margin protected your supplier base operating within the terms you agreed, without manual audit overhead. Stay in control of contracted economics quarter after quarter.

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WHAT YOU GET

Recovery, packaged and ready to dispute.

Every supplier audit delivers four outputs your finance and procurement teams can act on immediately a matched transaction set, evidence-backed recovery claims ready for challenge, a root cause register with fixes defined, and embedded controls that prevent the same variances from recurring across your supplier base.

  • Transactions matched to contracted terms to identify overpayments, errors, and missed recoveries

  • Evidence-backed recovery quantified and packaged for supplier challenge

  • Root causes identified (pricing, process, compliance) with fixes defined

  • Controls embedded to prevent recurrence and protect future margin

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DESIGNED TO DELIVER

Benefits

Unlock hidden insights and supercharge your earnings growth with the world's first trustworthy spend analytics platform.

Recover Cash Already in the Business

Surface value hidden inside contracts, invoices, and supplier transactions before it becomes permanent leakage

Validate Every Supplier Charge

Ensure prices, surcharges, rebates, and contractual terms are applied correctly.

Reduce Commercial Leakage

Identify systemic errors and contract non-compliance before they compound.

Turn Recovery into Control

Embed controls that prevent overpayments and protect future margin.

Illustrative Impact · FMCG Freight Receiver

As a global freight receiver processing thousands of carrier invoices monthly, every billing error compounds. Spendkey matched every transaction against contracted freight rates surfacing systematic over-billing without manual audit.

~$13.6M

Total recovered · 90 days

What Spendkey Found

Carrier surcharge over-billing

£1.8M

43%

Rate tier misapplication

£1.1M

26%

Duplicate invoice processing

£0.7M

17%

Contract rate vs. invoiced rate variance

£0.6M

14%

Total Recovered

£4.2M

How Spendkey Did It

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24 months of carrier invoices ingested and matched to contracted freight rate cards.

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Every transaction flagged where invoiced amount exceeded contracted rate by >0.5%.

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Validated against shipment weight, lane, service type, and carrier agreement terms.

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Carrier-level claim packages generated ready for dispute without manual audit effort.

90 days

Recovery realised

Zero

Manual audit effort

Remediated

Terms fixed across supplier base

Recover what's already yours.

Match what you paid against what was agreed.
Talk to us about a transaction audit across your supplier base.

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