You pay freight forwarders and brokers to move your goods. You pay them to get the details right too. When they get it wrong, the bill lands on you. Customs penalties. Demurrage and detention. Chargebacks from your own customers when a shipment arrives late or non-compliant. A failed audit.
Most of these start as a data error upstream. A wrong code. A missing document. A date that doesn't add up. It sits in a provider's file for days before it becomes a fine. By the time you see it, it's already cost you.
Checks reads the shipment data your providers send. It catches errors while you can still act on them. It's your own independent check on the people you're paying.
Provider management has always been retrospective. You tally the failures. You raise them at the next QBR, a quarter after the goods shipped and the penalty hit. Real-time feedback is cheaper, and it works. Fix the problem while it's still fixable. It never becomes a line on the scorecard at all.
Two numbers, from day one
Track both yourself. No dashboard required.
Two numbers move from day one. Track both yourself.
Penalty and fee events drop. Track the avoidable charges you already record: detention, demurrage, penalty filings, correction fees. As Checks catches upstream errors early, the count falls. These are line items you can pull straight from your own books.
Provider data quality becomes visible. The same check fails on the same provider week after week. Then it stops, because now you can see it and hold them to it. Chart the failure rate by provider and you have something you've never had: a scorecard on the partners you pay. Bring it to the QBR if you like. The real win is the failures that stopped before they got there.
Two line items your finance team approves without a per-incident ROI:
Security. Nobody prices the breach that didn't happen. You fund it because being wrong once costs more than the tool ever will.
Audit. You pay to catch the problem before it becomes a penalty. The value is the finding, measured by how much you catch.
Checks is the same shape. That failure rate above is a finding rate. It's the same evidence an auditor would hand you, except here it's pointed at the providers handling your freight.
I want to bring in a tool called Checks. It helps us avoid direct and indirect costs across our supply chain.
Right now we catch a lot of problems too late. It costs us in detention, demurrage, late customer deliveries, and chargebacks. Checks monitors shipments, so our freight providers can fix problems before they happen.
Every problem gets caught and logged. That gives us clear reporting on whether we're getting our ROI. And there's no contract, so we can cancel if it doesn't pay off.
Get in touch and we'll size it against your volume. Or run the numbers yourself. Either way, the case makes itself.