Frequently asked questions about ValueXPA: the Margin Drift Diagnostic, AP recovery audit, contract compliance audit, freight invoice audit, finance managed services, and engagement model.
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Margin drift is the gradual divergence between contracted vendor costs and actual costs paid across freight, MRO, contract labour, maintenance, and IT spend. It accumulates undetected because ERPs validate purchase orders but not contract terms.
A fixed-scope 2–4 week engagement that matches every service vendor invoice against contract terms and quantifies leakage — typically 1–3% of service vendor spend — by vendor and category for $30–150M industrial manufacturers.
Traditional recovery audit firms charge 25–50% of recoveries and audit retrospectively only. ValueXPA is fixed-scope (clients retain 100% of recoveries), forward-looking (identifies preventable leakage too), and integrated (the same engagement builds the controls to prevent recurrence).
Yes. Freight and 3PL invoice audit is one of six service vendor categories the diagnostic covers. Typical recovery 3–8% of annual freight spend.
No. AP automation prevents forward-looking errors at point of invoice receipt. ValueXPA quantifies historical leakage and feeds contract logic into the AP automation tools you already own.
CFOs and finance leaders at $30M–$150M industrial manufacturers and distributors in the United States, Australia, and India.