10-Day Pricing & Cost Check - Find the margin issue. Know what to fix.
We check a defined set of transactions against your approved supplier-cost and customer-pricing rules, validate discrepancies with your team, and deliver an evidence-backed correction plan.
The check is the packaged way to start when the financial issue has not yet been located. If you already know the workflow problem, we scope that directly.
Try one comparison before scoping the full check.
The free Missed Price Checker compares invoice lines with approved customer prices on your device. Use its sample, or bring your own CSVs. The paid engagement adds the commercial context, validation, and correction plan.
Open the free sample check →- Focus
- One supplier or product category
- Timing
- 10 business days after inputs are ready
- Method
- Read-only analysis with customer validation
- Commercial model
- Fixed fee confirmed before kickoff
Start with one supplier or category - Follow the cost change all the way to the invoice.
A cost update in the ERP is the start. Customer agreements, effective dates, and invoice prices show whether it reached the transaction. We check those records together and give your pricing team a clear list of what needs correcting.
- Supplier-cost follow-through. Test whether approved cost changes and required pricing reviews took effect on the correct basis and date.
- Customer-pricing validity. Check whether transactions reflect current agreements, approved renewals, and documented exceptions.
- Transaction exceptions. Distinguish a correct exception from a data problem or a transaction that warrants corrective review.
How the check works - Scope. Reconcile. Validate. Hand over.
The engagement starts only after the agreed data, commercial rules, and designated reviewer are available.
01
Scope the check
Agree on one supplier or category, one period, the commercial rules to test, required exports, and written completion criteria.
02
Reconcile the data
Normalize the agreed transactions, cost records, pricing records, effective dates, and adjustments into a reproducible comparison.
03
Validate the findings
Review apparent discrepancies with your designated expert. Authorized exceptions, fixed-price agreements, credits, and timing differences remain visible.
04
Hand over the correction plan
Deliver the exception register, financial assessment, prioritized actions, and the evidence needed for your team to decide what to correct.
What you receive - Working evidence your team can review and act on.
- Reproducible analysis. A documented method and calculation for the agreed checks, including assumptions and source references.
- Exception register. Transaction-level observations, supporting evidence, customer-review status, and disposition.
- Financial assessment. Confirmed discrepancies separated from potentially recoverable amounts, future opportunities, and dismissed findings.
- Correction plan. Prioritized next actions with owners, approvals, and verification steps.
- Review handover. A working session with your financial sponsor and rule reviewer to resolve open items and transfer the analysis.
- Next-step options. A clear recommendation to correct, monitor, investigate further, or stop.
What your team provides
Only the records needed for the agreed check.
- Scoped transaction and adjustment exports.
- Relevant supplier-cost records and effective dates.
- Approved customer-pricing rules and agreements.
- A sponsor and reviewer authorized to validate the rules.
How your team acts on it
A clear owner for every correction.
- Your pricing lead confirms the rule and approves the fix.
- The record owner updates the price in your existing system.
- Your account team handles any customer or supplier follow-up.
Practical questions - What you need to know before deciding.
- What data is needed?
- A scoped request based on the agreed check—typically transaction lines, adjustments or credits, supplier-cost records, customer-pricing records, effective dates, and documented exceptions for one supplier or category and one period.
- Do you need system access?
- No. The initial approach is read-only analysis of agreed exports and supporting records.
- Who needs to be involved?
- A financial sponsor and someone authorized to validate the cost and pricing rules, exceptions, and agreements.
- How much time does our team need?
- Plan for an initial scoping conversation, a rules review, a findings review, and a handover. A typical planning allowance is 30 minutes for scope, 1–2 hours for the pricing review, and 30 minutes for handover; the proposal confirms it. Export and data-preparation work is additional and depends on your systems.
- What happens before the ten days start?
- We identify the export owner, confirm the required fields and agreements, and check that the records can answer the question. The proposal separates any data preparation from the investigation. We agree a start date once the inputs and reviewer are available.
- Will you change prices or contact suppliers?
- The check gives your team the findings and a correction plan. Your pricing owner approves changes, and your account team handles supplier or customer conversations. We can scope implementation after the review.
- How is confidential information handled?
- According to transfer, access, processing, retention, and deletion arrangements agreed in writing before any data is provided.
What happens after a finding?
Your reviewer confirms the discrepancy. The correction plan names the owner, required approval, and a way to verify the fix on subsequent transactions. Your team can carry it out, or request a separately priced implementation or recurring check.
What if the review finds nothing material?
You get a clear record of the transactions checked, the agreements that explain the differences, and the reviewer’s decisions. That gives the team a documented basis for closing the question and focusing on the next priority.
Commercial terms
Fixed fee. Written scope. Clear acceptance criteria.
Before kickoff, we agree the records to check, the deliverables, the review sessions, and the fixed fee. The project ends with findings your team can act on. Implementation or a recurring check can follow with its own scope and price.
Let’s start with one thing.
Give your team more time for the work that needs them.
Show us the quoting, order-entry, or follow-up work that keeps piling up. We’ll map it with you and find a practical place to start.
Start with a free workflow conversation with Alex.