Trade Restructuring and Cost-to-Serve Audit.
For Mauritian shippers who suspect their current trade is costing more than it should. We audit end-to-end and rewrite the structure underneath.
Five signs.
You buy on supplier-controlled Incoterms (CFR, CIF, DAP, DDP) and the freight portion of the bill never feels right.
Your supplier nominates the forwarder. The destination side keeps adding charges you were not expecting.
You import the same SKUs every month and the landed cost drifts upward.
You are exporting from Mauritius and your buyer keeps asking why their landed cost is higher than from your competitors.
You have a real preferential-tariff alternative (CECPA, AfCFTA, SADC, COMESA) and your broker is not using it.
Six layers.
The audit walks each one, takes evidence from your invoices and shipping documents, writes a finding for each.
Sourcing
Who you buy from, on what Incoterm, on what payment term. Whether the supplier is acting as a freight reseller without disclosing the mark-up.
Incoterms
Where the risk transfers, where the cost transfers, where insurance sits. Whether the Incoterm in the contract is the Incoterm being practised in the shipment.
Carrier and route
Whether the supplier-nominated carrier is competitive on your lane, whether you have any direct freight contracts, and what a tender on the same volume would price at.
Customs and duty
HS classification accuracy, preferential eligibility, duty paid versus duty payable. Most Mauritian importers leak here.
Destination charges
THC, port handling, documentation, demurrage and detention. Whether you are paying twice through the supplier and again at the destination forwarder.
Mauritius side
Freeport eligibility for goods you re-export. Hub positioning if you serve regional markets from Mauritius.
A written report.
Findings, quantified estimate of recoverable margin per layer, concrete action plan.
A written report with the audit findings, a quantified estimate of recoverable margin per layer, and a recommended action plan. The plan is concrete: rewrite Incoterms on these specific suppliers, switch carrier on these lanes, file for preferential treatment under these agreements, reroute these SKUs through the Freeport.
If the work needs running, our managed logistics arm picks up. We coordinate the new supplier conversations, the carrier tender, the customs filing, the Freeport setup. On the platform side this is the Managed Trade tier: BCorp engages from the supplier PO through to destination delivery and runs the whole flow.
Two to four weeks.
Operational arm scoped separately once the audit is signed off.
Most engagements run 2 to 4 weeks for the audit phase, depending on the spread of suppliers and lanes. The action-plan phase can be a single supplier conversation or a full restructure across a season’s volume.
Five inputs to start.
We sign an NDA before any of this lands with us. Nothing leaves the engagement without your sign-off.
12 months of supplier invoices for the SKUs in scope.
12 months of forwarder or carrier invoices for the same lanes.
Bills of Entry filed at Mauritius Customs for the same period.
Existing supplier and forwarder contracts.
An hour with whoever owns purchasing, an hour with whoever owns logistics.
Book a scoping call.
45 minutes. Whether this engagement fits, what it would cost, when we could start. No charge for the call.