A leading engine parts distributor was spending $400,000 annually on a third-party auditor to review carrier contracts and invoices. While building a digital twin of the company’s logistics network, Foxtrot reverse-engineered the auditor's proprietary logic, eliminating the cost.
At the core of the distributor’s logistics expense was a primary carrier contract—a dense, 50-page document detailing costs by state, weight, and delivery type. To ensure invoice accuracy, the company was paying a third-party auditor more than $400,000 annually to validate carrier charges against this contract. Not only was this costly; it was also slow, with the validation coming as a periodic, static report, hindering the distributor’s ability to respond quickly to discrepancies. Further, relying on this black box process left the distributor unable to verify, interrogate, or improve the logic used to audit its own carrier quotes.
Foxtrot and the distributor worked together to bring the audit process in-house by recreating the third party’s reporting capabilities within Palantir Foundry. Because the auditor’s logic was proprietary, Foxtrot engineers had to independently decipher the contractual formulas. By using Foundry’s analytical tools to compare historical invoices, contract data, and past reports, Foxtrot reverse-engineered the complex logic and captured years of institutional knowledge that had previously been lost to the third party.
This effort culminated in the deployment of a highly accurate model that automated the audit process, allowing for real-time validation of carrier quotes. This enabled the distributor to transition an outsourced dependency into a transparent, in-house workflow that empowered the company’s staff to manage their own logistics data without requiring external intervention.
By automating the audit process in Foundry, the company successfully eliminated the need for a third-party auditor, immediately cutting over $400,000 in annual vendor expenses and adding that revenue back to the bottom line.
The transition from static reports to a dynamic platform provides faster, more reliable insights into carrier costs, allowing for faster discrepancy identification and resolution and better-informed carrier negotiations.
The reverse-engineered model replicated the auditor’s proprietary logic with 98% accuracy, ensuring the company maintained a high-quality invoice validation while gaining full audit logic transparency.
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