What we found in 30 days - with the amounts
Every case follows the same scheme: margin at risk, margin protected, hours. The cases are anonymised: the venue, the products and the amounts are changed, while the mechanics of each exception are as they happened in the work.
Totals across the published cases. The cases are anonymised; your numbers will differ - in 30 days you will see your own.
Two invoices for one delivery went into the books
One delivery arrived twice, by email and with the courier under a different number, and both invoices were posted. RestoAudit matched supplier, date, amount and line composition and put the documents side by side. The 386 € stock gap was closed before month end: the second document was cancelled and the supplier issued a correction.
Cream went up 4.2% - and that cost 118 € a month
A 4.2% rise in the price of cream looked small and was lost among forty invoice lines. RestoAudit noticed the new price held for the fifth delivery and counted the effect: 118 € a month in purchasing and 21.40 € per dish. The buyer asked for a second quote and the price went back to 3.14 € a litre.
Rocket left its season by 76% - and it was not noticed at once
A restaurant chain put the rising price of greens down to the season. RestoAudit compared it with the norm for the same month in past years: 3.80 € against 2.16 €, a 76% deviation that held for the fifth delivery. The chain switched supplier for two weeks and fixed the price with the previous one in parallel.
How we count these numbers
We do not show “potential savings” but two different numbers: how much margin was at risk, and how much the team protected by its decisions. The second is always smaller - that is the honest way.
Check your own back office - 16 questionsThe sum of exceptions with a financial estimate: the deviation multiplied by your monthly volume. An estimate, not an accounting fact.
Only what the team acted on: challenged a price, stopped a duplicate, corrected a line, switched supplier.
The manual checking nobody does any more: by the number of documents and the typical time to check one invoice.
Margin protected against the cost of the subscription for the same month. No forecasts a year ahead.