Close the freight audit gap
From hidden costs to total confidence
In our previous article about the challenges of auditing freight, we explored why the process feels so complex for many global shippers. But when you break it down, the same patterns show up again and again.
Sampling instead of full validation. Fragmented data across regions and systems. Errors only discovered after payment has already been made. Add in VAT complexity and manual workflows, and it’s easy to see how costs can quietly slip through unnoticed.
For organizations operating at scale, this isn’t just inefficient – it limits visibility, weakens control and creates uncertainty around true transport spend. It’s not just about checking invoices. It’s about building trust in your data, your costs and the decisions that follow.
Trimble Freight Audit is designed to deliver that trust.
How Trimble solves the visibility gap
Automated invoice booking
Invoices don’t arrive in a neat, standard format. They come through different channels, from different carriers, and handling that manually isn’t just time-consuming, it also increases the risk of errors.
As an automated, managed solution, Freight Audit reviews 100% of invoices across all transport modes, replacing manual sampling with complete validation. The result is a single, reliable view of freight spend and the foundation for smarter, more confident decision-making. Freight Audit automatically captures, standardizes and logs every invoice – eliminating manual entry, reducing errors and ensuring no transaction is missed.
The real-time exception engine
Instead of checking a small sample after payment has gone out, every invoice is automatically validated against contracted rates and service agreements.
If something doesn’t look right, it’s flagged straight away, so it can be resolved before payment is made, rather than chased down later.
Centralizing global data
For most global networks, data isn’t lacking – it’s just fragmented. Spread across systems, regions and currencies, it can be hard to see the full picture.
Trimble brings everything together into a single source of truth, standardising carrier data and creating a consistent, reliable view of transport costs, across the entire network.
Want to see the Freight Audit in action? Check out our recent ASICS case study.
Bridging the audit-to-payment divide
Frictionless settlements and dispute management
Audit and payment are often treated as separate steps and that’s where things start to slow down. When you throw manually handling disputes into the mix, this can put a real strain on the accounts payable teams. By bringing together audit and payment through integrated managed payment services (in partnership with Triumph), Freight Audit helps speed up payment cycles while ensuring invoices are fully validated.
The result is smoother cash flow for both shippers and carriers, and a much more predictable financial process. Automated workflows take care of this within the platform, cutting down admin time, resolving issues faster and making the whole process feel much smoother.
Regulatory peace of mind
Global freight brings its share of complexity – from VAT rules and customs requirements to multi-currency challenges.
Freight Audit takes that pressure off by embedding compliance into the audit process, so invoices are checked correctly across regions, without the need for constant manual oversight.
Turning audit into collaborative intelligence
From data to decision confidence
When your data is fragmented, decisions become harder. When it’s trusted, everything changes.
With a single, consistent view of audited transport costs, teams across logistics, finance and procurement can work from the same numbers, not different interpretations of them.
That means costs can be allocated accurately, performance can be analysed with confidence, and decisions made without second-guessing the data. And the historical data captured during audits provides a reliable foundation for RFQs and carrier negotiations, helping shippers secure better rates, improve service reliability and reduce risk.
From audit to advantage
Most audit processes focus on spotting errors. The real value comes from understanding what’s causing them.
Freight Audit uncovers patterns behind discrepancies, helping teams fix root causes – not just symptoms. By moving from sampling to full audit coverage, and from reactive checks to real-time validation, teams spend less time fixing issues and more time driving performance, optimisation and growth.
No gaps. No guesswork.
See it in action: ASICS
One of our customers, ASICS, faced exactly these challenges as its network grew in complexity. By implementing Freight Audit, they created a single, trusted dataset of transport costs, giving teams a clear, consistent view across the business.
With that foundation in place, they can now allocate costs accurately, analyze performance with confidence and make better decisions across logistics, finance and procurement.
Read the full ASICS case study here to see how they gained full control of freight costs. Or, get in touch with our team to see Freight Audit in action.
