How a Global Consumer Electronics Manufacturer Recovered $2.8M Through Freight Audit Transformation

A global electronics leader partnered with nVision Global to modernize its freight audit and payment ecosystem, unlocking millions in savings and rebuilding financial confidence across its supply chain.

$2.8M Annualized savings
99.7% Audit accuracy
85% Manual effort eliminated

Challenges vs Outcomes

Key Challenges

Highly manual invoice validation process across 3 continents
Frequent overcharges hidden inside complex, multi-leg carrier invoices
Fragmented freight data across ERP, regional TMS & spreadsheets
Inconsistent audit rules across markets
Lengthy dispute cycles & delayed carrier payments
Lack of carrier performance insights & cost visibility

Quantified Outcomes with nVision

Highly manual invoice validation process across 3 continents
Frequent overcharges hidden inside complex, multi-leg carrier invoices
Fragmented freight data across ERP, regional TMS & spreadsheets
Inconsistent audit rules across markets
Lengthy dispute cycles & delayed carrier payments
Lack of carrier performance insights & cost visibility

As consumer demand skyrocketed across continents, the company’s freight volumes grew exponentially. But their freight audit infrastructure did not evolve with it. Behind a state-of-the-art distribution network was a freight finance ecosystem still dependent on emails, spreadsheets, and manual checks.

Invoices from more than 60 global carriers routed into regional finance teams that operated independently. Each region followed its own audit interpretation, workflows, and approval logic resulting in inconsistencies, missed errors, and delayed payments.

During peak buying seasons, the pressure intensified.

Slow dispute cycles meant carriers were increasingly frustrated.
Payment delays jeopardized access to priority capacity.
Audit exceptions piled up faster than teams could clear them.

The Breakthrough

Through nVision Global’s freight audit services, the distributor gained immediate access to clear, enterprise-wide shipping data. For the first time, they could see not just their own shipments, but the combined picture across all partners and providers.

That visibility was eye-opening. A single snapshot exposed massive inefficiencies and duplicate shipments happening across their entire network, issues they never could have detected without freight audit insight.

Monitor Daily Efficiency

Strengthen Partner Accountability

Eliminate Waste Automatically

The Bigger Picture

The customer quickly realized that this first glimpse into their logistics activity was just the tip of the iceberg. With nVision Global’s support, they began to:

Monitor Daily Efficiency
Spot redundant shipments before they happened, not months after.
Eliminate Waste Automatically
Explore nVision’s Transportation Management System (TMS) to consolidate shipments and ensure smarter routing decisions.
Strengthen Partner Accountability
Use shipping data to identify inefficiencies across providers, vendors, and distributors, turning hidden costs into opportunities for negotiation and process improvement.

The Results

The estimated potential savings is millions of dollars annually simply by eliminating redundancies across their extended network. But here’s the remarkable part:

What started as a single moment of visibility has now paved the way for broader transformation: more control, better accountability, and a stronger, more efficient supply chain.

These savings came before even addressing the traditional freight audit function of catching and correcting erroneous invoices and charges.

When freight audit savings are added on top of increased efficiency, the savings compound further.

And when combined with nVision Global’s Impact TMS, optimization becomes automatic, transforming both process and profitability.

Customer Perspective

When we finally saw the full picture, not just our own shipments, but our partners and providers as well… it was eye-opening. The data showed us where the waste really was, and it gave us the leverage to change it. We’re now saving millions and setting up our supply chain for long-term success.

Why It Matters

Freight audit is more than invoice accuracy, it’s about shining a light on the hidden inefficiencies that drain supply chains. In this case, visibility revealed that the majority of the problem wasn’t even internal. And the most exciting part? These savings came before invoice errors were even corrected!

By exposing hidden inefficiencies, recovering dollars lost to billing mistakes, and unlocking automation through TMS, nVision Global turns a simple data view into a roadmap for immediate savings and long-term transformation.