Chemical Distribution
The business is profitable on paper but leaks rupees through hundreds of small mismatches nobody has time to catch: volume rebates and slabs earned but never claimed, price-protection credits missed when a principal drops a published price on held stock, freight billed above the rate card, container demurrage and tanker detention eaten, weighbridge and drum-count shorts absorbed, duplicate or double payments, and (for the importer) inverted-duty refund left unclaimed. The leak is real money, it is in the firm's own records, and it is recoverable with evidence.
Who has it
Industrial and specialty chemical distributors lose the most on scheme, rebate and price-protection claims; solvent, polymer and resin traders on freight, demurrage and weight; import and re-packing or blending houses on landed cost and inverted-duty refund; and every segment leaks on the buy and freight side.
What we build
A recovery sweep across the firm's own records that surfaces each leak with a line-level trail: scheme, slab and price-protection claims matched to the supplier's own circulars and credit notes; freight bills audited against the rate card and demurrage/detention terms; weighbridge and count differences flagged; duplicate payments caught; and, for the importer, the inverted-duty refund tracked. The output is a quantified, line-level recovery report and then a recurring sweep that keeps catching leaks every cycle. This is the firm's universal entry wedge, the read-only "find the money in your own data" demo.
What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
The reliable spine
The non-AI spine does the recovery: deterministic matching of every sale, slab and held-stock line to the principal's own scheme circulars and credit notes, a freight-bill audit against the rate card and the demurrage and detention terms, weighbridge and drum-count checks, a duplicate-payment check, and the inverted-duty refund calculation, each break landed in an exception queue with its source trail.
Where AI helps
AI only reads the messy inputs that feed that engine: it extracts the figures and terms from scanned scheme circulars, supplier invoices, credit notes and freight bills, and clusters the recurring leaks, so a person reviews a ranked list instead of hunting paper. It never owns the recovered number, the claim filed or the decision to pursue it.
Who signs off
A named person signs off anything touching money, stock, a customer promise, a regulated filing, a payment, a price, a credit decision or a people decision.
What changes day to day
Earned scheme, rebate and price-protection money is claimed instead of left on the table; freight and demurrage overcharges are recovered; duplicate payments are caught; the inverted-duty refund is claimed; the leaks keep getting caught every cycle.
Illustrative outcome
A quantified line-level recovery in the first sweep and a recurring catch each cycle, all traced to the firm's own circulars, invoices, credit notes and freight bills.
Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Path to the build
Book a free 60-minute call, then a free Blueprint on the firm's own records. Deep-dive and build, followed by run and govern so the workflow keeps paying back.
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