Audit service
Identify Freight Overcharges. Recover Costs. Strengthen Logistics Control.
Freight expenses represent a significant part of the overall logistics budget, but organizations often have limited visibility into whether every freight charge is accurate and contractually justified. Differences in freight rates, accessorial charges, fuel surcharges, route charges, duplicate invoices, and billing errors can create substantial cost leakage over time.
Audex Freight Audit Services provide an independent and data-driven review of freight transactions to identify discrepancies between contracted rates, expected freight costs, invoiced amounts, and actual payments. Our objective is to help organizations gain greater control over transportation expenditure while identifying opportunities for sustainable freight cost optimization.
Overview
A freight audit is a systematic review of transportation invoices and related shipment data to determine whether freight charges are accurate, authorized, and aligned with agreed commercial terms.
Audex connects freight invoices with relevant shipment, contract, rate, and payment information to identify discrepancies that may otherwise remain hidden within large volumes of logistics transactions.
Audit scope
Each freight transaction is reviewed against the commercial, operational, and financial information that supports it.
We compare invoiced transportation rates against approved contracts, rate cards, lane-specific pricing, vehicle categories, zones, and applicable commercial terms. This helps identify incorrect rates and deviations from negotiated agreements.
We examine freight invoices against shipment records and supporting information to identify duplicate billing, incorrect quantities, incorrect rates, unsupported charges, and other billing discrepancies.
Additional charges can significantly increase transportation expenditure. We review applicable handling, loading, unloading, detention, waiting, fuel, documentation, and other accessorial charges to determine whether they are valid and supported.
We compare expected freight costs with actual invoiced and paid amounts. This helps identify abnormal variations across routes, transporters, shipment types, locations, and business units.
We assess whether transportation providers are following agreed commercial terms. Contract deviations can create recurring financial leakage if they are not identified and corrected.
Business value
A structured freight audit helps identify overcharges, incorrect rates, duplicate billing, and unsupported charges that can increase transportation expenditure. By identifying these discrepancies, organizations can improve financial control over freight spending.
Audex provides greater visibility into where transportation money is being spent and how freight costs vary across routes, carriers, shipments, and service types. Better visibility enables management to make more informed logistics decisions.
Freight audit findings can highlight recurring issues with individual carriers or transporters. This provides useful evidence for performance reviews, contract discussions, rate negotiations, and corrective actions.
Beyond finding individual billing errors, freight analysis can reveal recurring cost patterns and structural inefficiencies. These insights can support long-term improvements in freight contracts, transportation strategies, and logistics processes.
Independent audit partner
Audex combines logistics understanding, transaction analysis, financial validation, and technology-enabled auditing to examine freight costs at scale. Our approach focuses not only on identifying an incorrect charge, but also on understanding why it occurred and whether the same issue is likely to recur.
We provide an independent perspective that helps organizations strengthen freight controls, improve carrier accountability, and turn freight data into actionable cost intelligence.
Relevance
A freight audit is relevant wherever transportation is billed at volume across multiple providers and commercial terms.
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Audex helps organizations turn logistics and supply chain data into stronger controls, clearer visibility, and actionable improvement opportunities. Contact Audex to discuss your audit requirements and identify the areas where an independent review can create the greatest business impact.