What it takes to audit every invoice line.
Good pricing only lasts if someone checks it. Here’s what a real audit looks at, and why spot checks miss most of it.
Most groups review invoices when something looks off. The problem is that overcharges rarely look off. They’re a few percent on one line, spread across hundreds of lines and dozens of deliveries every week.
An audit that actually holds pricing in place has to check every line, against more than one reference point, as soon as the invoice arrives.
What each line is checked against
Your own history. What this location paid for the same product recently.
Your other locations. The same product should cost exactly the same across a group on the same agreement.
The Angel Index. What the market for this specific product says the price should be.
Commodity markets. Whether the underlying market moved enough to explain a change.
Programs in place. Whether each manufacturer deal is applied at the right amount.
Contract terms. Whether margin, fees and price protection match the agreement.
From flag to credit
Finding an overcharge is half the job. The other half is getting the money back without anyone on the team chasing it. Angel sends the credit request to the distributor with the supporting detail, matches the credit memo when it comes back, and records the result in the group’s savings report.
Over time, the bigger effect is prevention. When every line is checked, pricing that drifts gets caught early, and it stops drifting.