nShift announces AI-powered invoice audit to recover hidden freight overcharges

New nShift Audit checks each carrier invoice against both the contracted tariff and the shipment record, identifying discrepancies a rate-only audit can miss

nShift, the global leader in delivery and experience management, today announced nShift Audit, an AI-powered invoice audit and recovery product designed to identify freight billing discrepancies that can remain hidden in rate-only checks. The same platform used to create and manage the shipment now checks the invoice against it, using the customer’s own shipment record alongside the contracted tariff to verify every line.

A rate can be correct, and the charge can still be wrong. A canceled shipment may still be billed, the invoiced weight may differ from the shipment record, or a surcharge may appear for a service that was never used. nShift Audit checks the price against the tariff, then verifies the charge against the shipment record.

Published freight-audit studies and market benchmarks report recoveries from freight billing discrepancies in the range of 3 to 7% of freight spend.

For businesses already shipping through nShift, the shipment data needed for the audit is already in place, so they can start with the first uploaded invoice, without an integration project. Businesses not yet shipping through nShift can connect their shipment data through the platform’s API.

In nShift research with more than 120 companies, approximately three in four said they still check freight invoices manually or not at all. nShift Audit uses AI to read and structure carrier invoice formats, including PDF, CSV, Excel, XML and EDI, without requiring a new mapping for each format. Fixed rules then run seven automated checks against the tariff and shipment record, including duplicate billing and mismatches in service level, billed weight, volume, price and surcharges.

The first invoice in a new carrier format is validated manually. Once approved, later invoices in the same format can be processed automatically.

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