ORACRON / SENTRA — INVOICE AUDIT

Carriers overcharge.
Sentra catches it.

Every freight invoice checked against your contracted rates, automatically. Road, Air, Sea — line by line, shipment by shipment.

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The problem

Freight invoices are too complex to check by hand.

Surcharges, fuel adjustments, currency conversions, weight brackets, accessorials — each carrier invoice has dozens of line items priced on its own logic. Finance teams don't have the hours to verify each one against the contract. Errors slip through. They become cost.

5–15%

of freight invoices contain at least one billing error (industry studies)

3–5%

of freight spend lost to undisputed overcharges, on average (industry studies)

45 min

average time to manually audit one collective invoice (typical multi-shipment invoice)

Impact estimate

What's hiding in your freight spend?

Drag the slider to see what Sentra could surface in your annual freight volume.

€100k €20M
Annual freight spend
€850,000
Billing errors found
€12,750
~1.5% of spend
Recoverable amount
€6,800
~0.8% of spend
Hours saved
136
Manual checking avoided
What you keep

On Oracron's flat fee you keep €6,800100%. A contingency auditor would take €1,700–€3,400 of that.

Illustration · contingency models typically charge 25–50% of recoveries
How it works

A five-step audit pipeline.

From PDF on your desk to dispute letter in the carrier's inbox.

Step 01 · Upload
Drop the invoice in.
drop_zone › rechnung_2026-04.pdf · 2.4 MB
Step 02 · Classify
Charge labels snap to fee codes.
DIESELZUSCHLAGFUEL-01
MAUT DE/ATTOLL-DE-02
ADR-GEFAHRGUTHAZ-ADR-04
ZOLLABFERTIGUNGCUST-CL-01
Step 03 · Normalize
Shipment assembled.
DE-HAMIT-MIL
12,450 kg 14 pallets FTL · 1,140 km ADR · class 3
Linehaul€1,820.00
Fuel surcharge 18.5%€336.70
Toll DE/AT€212.40
ADR handling€127.40
Step 04 · Validate
Expected vs billed.
ChargeExpectedBilledΔ
Linehaul€1,820.00€1,820.00€0.00
Fuel 18.5%€336.70€336.70€0.00
Toll DE/AT€128.20€212.40+€84.20OVER
ADR handling€127.40€127.40€0.00
Step 05 · Dispute
Letter drafted with evidence.
Re: Invoice #DE-2026-04-1187 · Shipment HAM→MIL
Dear Carrier,
Our audit flagged 1 charge exceeding the contracted rate (Annex B, §3.2 — toll pass-through):
LineExpectedBilledΔ
Toll DE/AT€128.20€212.40+€84.20
We request a credit note of €84.20 within 14 days. — Sentra Audit
Coverage

Every mode. Every document type.

Whether your spend lives on the autobahn, in the air, or in a container, Sentra audits it.

ROAD

FTL, LTL, parcel

Weight brackets, distance bands, fuel surcharges, toll pass-throughs.

AIR

Air freight & express

Chargeable weight, security fees, fuel and security surcharges, handling.

SEA

FCL & LCL

Ocean freight, BAF/CAF, THC, demurrage, detention, port charges.

Collective invoices
Sammelrechnung with hundreds of shipments — split and audited individually.
Credit notes
Matched back to the originating invoice and dispute case.
VAT validation
VAT numbers, rates, and reverse-charge logic checked per jurisdiction.
Built for finance teams

Auditable AI. You stay in control.

Sentra is not a black box. Every decision is logged, every rule is visible, and nothing leaves your tenant without a policy you set.

1

Every AI decision is logged

Why a line was flagged, which contract clause was used, what the deviation was — all reviewable.

2

Nothing auto-sent without your policy

Dispute letters are drafted; they leave only when your approval rules allow it.

3

The review queue learns from you

Every override or accept becomes signal. False positives drop as Sentra learns your tolerances.

Trust & compliance

Global by design. Compliant by default.

Oracron is operated by Global Link Ventures LLC, a US company serving shippers worldwide. Choose your data region — EU or US — and your data is stored and processed there.

Data residency

Choose your data region — EU or US. Your data is stored and processed where you select.

GDPR-compliant

DPA available. Your data is never used to train AI for other customers.

5 languages

EN · DE · FR · ES · RO

Full audit trail

Every action, override, and dispute reply preserved and exportable.

The Oracron platform

Sentra is where most teams start.

Oracron is modular. Nexus manages contracts, Prism turns spend into analytics, Argus scores carrier performance, and Orbit runs procurement — all on the same data Sentra audits.

FAQ

Questions finance teams ask.

How do I audit a freight invoice?

A freight invoice audit compares every charge on a carrier invoice against the contracted rate for that shipment — base freight by weight bracket, surcharges (fuel, tolls, remote area, customs), and accessorials. Sentra automates the full audit: it extracts the invoice via AI (PDF or CSV), normalises each line to a canonical fee taxonomy, looks up the contracted rate by route + weight + date, and flags any charge that doesn't match. Mismatches above your tolerance are auto-drafted as dispute letters with a per-line evidence table.

How does Sentra detect carrier overcharges?

Sentra brackets the rate on our independently computed chargeable weight — derived from the shipment's gross weight, volume (CBM), and loading metres (LDM) using the tariff's contracted conversion factor. The expected total is then built up from your rate card and compared to the invoiced amount. The common overcharge patterns it catches: inflated chargeable weight, wrong tariff zone, surcharges applied to a non-eligible lane (e.g. remote-area fee on a mainland postcode), fuel surcharge using the wrong weekly index, and percent-of-freight surcharges compounding on each other.

Does Sentra work with DHL, DB Schenker, Kühne+Nagel, and other major carriers?

Yes. Sentra is carrier-agnostic — the AI extraction handles invoice formats from DHL, DB Schenker, Kühne+Nagel, Rhenus, Dachser, GEODIS, FedEx, UPS, and others. The 152-code fee taxonomy maps each carrier's labelling (e.g. K+N "Zonentarif", Schenker "Frachtkosten Hauptlauf") to canonical codes, and the rate engine supports carrier-specific chargeable-weight factors per lane (e.g. K+N Zonentarif 150 kg/m³ + 800 kg/LDM). New carrier templates are added without code changes.

How long does setup take?

Most customers go live within two weeks. The work is mostly importing your contracted rates per route and weight bracket — Sentra handles the rest.

What file formats do you accept?

PDF (with AI extraction, including scanned invoices) and CSV. Email-in and SFTP drop also supported for high-volume accounts.

Do you need our rate contracts?

Yes. Rates are imported per route and weight bracket — that's how Sentra knows what the invoice should be. We support importing from spreadsheets, carrier rate cards, and Nexus.

What happens with detected overcharges?

Sentra drafts a dispute letter with a line-level evidence table and routes it through your approval policy. Once sent, carrier replies are tracked in the dispute portal until the case is closed or a credit note is matched.

Is our data used to train AI for others?

No. Your invoices, contracts, and dispute data stay in your tenant and are never used to train models for other customers.

Pricing?

Sentra is billed per audited shipment (the audit unit, not files uploaded), with a free trial to start. See pricing →

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