22% Freight cost reduction
Wholesale & DistributionERP & Systems Advisory
B2B Pricing Engine Rebuilt After System Migration — Invoice Disputes Down 94%
After a platform migration, a Burnaby specialty food distributor's customer portal was showing incorrect prices across 650+ restaurant accounts. Staff were manually correcting 80+ invoices daily. We rebuilt the pricing configuration without a system replacement.
94%
Invoice dispute reduction
80+
Daily manual corrections eliminated
6wks
Full pricing accuracy restored
The Challenge
- A platform migration moved 650+ customer-specific price lists into a new system that did not support multi-tier B2B pricing — every account defaulted to the same base price list.
- The customer portal was live and showing wrong prices to restaurant buyers who had negotiated volume discounts and contract rates years earlier.
- Four staff members spent an average of 3.5 hours daily correcting invoices after the fact, creating a backlog that was growing faster than it could be cleared.
The Solution
- ✓Conducted a pricing architecture audit of the new system — documenting its pricing engine capabilities against the 14 distinct pricing tiers the business was actually using.
- ✓Rebuilt the B2B pricing configuration within the existing system using customer groups, price list inheritance, and contract-level overrides, avoiding the cost and risk of a replacement.
- ✓Designed a pricing validation script that cross-checked every customer account's effective rate against their legacy contract terms, catching 23 additional discrepancies the manual process had missed.
- ✓Delivered staff training on the new pricing model structure so the sales team could self-manage future account additions and rate changes without consultant support.
Key Outcomes
94%
Invoice dispute reduction
80+
Daily manual corrections eliminated
6wks
Full pricing accuracy restored
Industry
Wholesale & Distribution
Solution
ERP & Systems Advisory
Client
Pacific Gateway Food Distributors Inc.
ERP AdvisoryWholesalePricing Recovery
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