Audit & Analytics dashboards ensure you’re on top of everything

Welcome to 3PL Links’ Audit & Analytics Services

Audit & Analytics is the 3PL Links’ supply chain platform that will allow you to optimize your supply chain by making smarter decisions faster. The 3PL Links Audit & Analytics tool ensures your invoices are 100% accurate, while gathering all relevant supply chain data and presenting it to you via interactive dashboards tailor-made to fit your needs. It’s time to take control of your supply chain spend. Audit & Analytics will help you get there.

1.Carrier Scorecard

• Track KPI’s such as ‘on time delivery’ and ‘perfect shipments’
• Hold your vendors accountable for their mistakes
• Breakdown your freight spend with each of your vendors
• Compare your vendors on a per pound, per pallet, or per unit cost

2. Customer Summary

• View supply chain spend by customer
• View invoices processed by day, week or customer
• Gauge if customer orders are declining month over month

3. Historical Pricing Analysis

• Predict shipment cost based on historical data
• Determine per pallet, per unit or per pound pricing
• Predict landed costs based on your historical averages

4. Monthly Freight Expense by GL Account

• View monthly spend by GL account
• View monthly average for each GL account
• Track actual supply chain spend to budget

5. Supply Chain Map

• Map your distribution centres in relation to your final deliveries to make sure your supply chain is optimized
• Are your distribution centers strategically placed to provide the most efficient supply chain for your organization?
• View your top 5 carriers on a certain lane-way and instantly compare their average costs per pound, per pallet, or per unit

6. Customer Freight Analysis

• Keep track of your customer order trends
• View your total freight spend on specific laneways to find improvements and increase bottom line
• Instantly break down your supply chain to find which vendors are working for you on each lane
• Ensure the best price on all laneways by taking advantage of volume discounts

7. Supply Chain Spend By Division

• View monthly spend by division
• View monthly average spend for each division
• Breakdown customer spend within selected division
• Compare % of spend for selected division to total spend

8. Route Scorecard

• Analyze the routes used for your milk runs (pedal runs or direct store deliveries) to ensure your freight expenses to deliver your product are kept in check
• View an average per unit or per pound cost to deliver products on a certain route
• Compare your expenses per route to highlight areas for improvement, or areas of concern

A company-wide solution to an inefficient supply chain.

An audit service that finance departments can count on

Stop paying for your vendor’s billing mistakes. Audit & Analytics identifies all billing errors in your invoices and ensures that you are never overcharged again. Our highly skilled freight audit team will resolve all discrepancies with your vendors on your behalf, saving your company time and money.

Audit & Analytics will process 1000’s of supply chain invoices for you, so that your finance team can focus their attention on less monotonous tasks. Every invoice will be 100% accurate and will have a fully visible audit trail. The best part … the savings we recover from your vendors will pay for the entire service, in year one!

An Analytics tool that will make your logistics team look like heroes.

Your operations team will thank Audit & Analytics for clearing their desk of invoices and backup documents. No more stacks of invoicing issues to correct, or accessorial charges that need approval. Audit & Analytics streamlines the process and works with your vendors to clear up all outstanding issues on your behalf.

Now, with a clean desk and some free time, your operations team can utilize the Audit & Analytics business intelligence tool to optimize your supply chain. Use a carrier scorecard dashboard to compare your top carriers, or breakdown your supply chain expenses by region to make sure you are taking advantage of volume discounts. It’s time to optimize your supply chain, with Audit & Analytics from 3PL Links.

Stop Working Hard.  Start Working Smart

Your time is too valuable to be pushing paper
High volume shippers are either spending too much time and money keeping track of invoicing errors, or not enough. With our Audit & Analytics service, your invoices become our problem. 3PL Links will retrieve the invoices from your vendors, audit them to 100% accuracy, and pay them on your behalf. Think about all the free time you’ll have to focus on optimizing your supply chain.

Optimizing your supply chain isn’t rocket science…
Or at least it doesn’t have to be. The Audit & Analytics system will give you all of the tools you need to optimize your supply chain, without spending hours manipulating excel spreadsheets.  Whether your objective is to cut costs, improve service, or just hold your vendors accountable, our analytics tool will help you to identify and execute an optimal solution.

The benefits of Audit & Analytics

Audit & Analytics will allow your company to work smart. Stop wasting time with monotonous tasks, and start spending your day generating value for the company. With our Audit & Analytics  tool, you will have the time and information to make better decisions, faster.

• Zero effort for your team
• ROI expected within a year
• 100% invoice accuracy
• Rededicated resources
• 1 standard invoice for all of your vendors
• Instant access to supply chain analytics
• Full supply chain visibility
• Efficient supply chain optimization
• Decreased supply chain spend
• Instant access to financial reporting
• Full audit trail on every invoice
• Increased cash control
• Efficient data quality, collection, and consolidation
• Customizable dashboards at your fingertips

Forward thinking companies use Audit & Analytics, yours should too.  We audit. You optimize.  Inject invaluable information into your supply chain decisions.

Get Started Now!

Click here to download the PDF version.