What’s inside: output checking · connections to your systems
The question this file answersHow many detention invoices do we pay because checking them costs more than the charge?
Fits: shippers and forwarders auditing hundreds to thousands of carrier invoices a month.
Typical, from the logistics playbook. Each month a freight-audit desk works through carrier invoices in the hundreds or thousands, with detention lines buried among them. For each, a clerk finds the free-time clause in the contract, then the gate events, then compares by hand. It hurts at month-end, when statements arrive together.
When the month-end carrier statements arrive, the auditor opens a list of the detention lines that do not add up — with the clause and the gate timestamps already beside the invoice line — rather than a stack of PDFs and three browser tabs. Lines that agree have moved on to payment without a person, and you can see how many did.
Typical, not a measured client result. Every figure here comes from the playbook source named below.
less manual checking on the carrier-invoice desk — Transporeon/project44 cases; detention lines are inside that desk, not measured separately
Before: a clerk argues detention from three screens. After: freight-audit cases report 50–65% less manual checking on the carrier-invoice desk — detention lines included, contract interpretation still human.
Transporeon and project44 case studies report 50–65% less manual audit effort on freight invoices; Ardent Partners “Freight Audit” (2023) puts best-in-class at 75%+ touchless; the logistics playbook uses 50–70%. Detention invoices are one line type on that desk — the range is not measured for them on their own, and it is not our measurement.
Your TMS and AP system stay — CargoWise, SAP, Dynamics or the ones you run. The same three-way audit build as our carrier-invoice file, aimed at one charge type:
Contract interpretation. Force majeure. Customer disputes. A terminal that changes its rules.
Contracts that state free time differently per port, or that were renegotiated mid-year, need to be written down as rules first — that is audit work, not automation. Terminals with no data feed leave the clock unverifiable; those lines go to a person as now. The Transporeon/project44 range is for the carrier-invoice audit desk as a whole; force majeure and disputed clauses are outside it.
The path: free 60-second estimate → free 20-minute review → paid audit of this one process (€1.5–3K, typically two weeks) → pilot with your people in the loop (€10–20K, weeks, not quarters). No transformation programme. Prices are public, on the services page →
Scoped in the audit — the playbook has no estimate for this exact desk.
That depends on your volumes and wage costs — this page will not invent the number. The free 60-second estimate runs that calculation from your answers, with every multiplier sourced.
Not a named Aperanda client. Process file · Logistics.
Short process file. Same build as its parent file; the playbook has no separate volume or benchmark for this desk.