Cost Leakage Analysis for a Listed Retail Group

The client — a multi-format retail group operating 220 stores — suspected unbilled rebates and duplicate vendor payments but lacked the analytical depth to quantify them.

Contera ingested three years of spend data, contracts and GRNs into a unified spend cube. Anomaly detection surfaced 1,800 candidate claims, of which 71% were validated and recovered.

The engagement closed with a permanent vendor-master governance protocol and a quarterly leakage dashboard owned by the CFO's office.