How a Buyer Used Supplier Audits to Cut Costs 20 Percent

The Buyer's Side with Fexingo: Procurement, Sourcing, and B2B Purchasing Decisions · Jul 22, 2026 · 8m · transcript

In episode 128 of The Buyer's Side, Lucas and Luna explore how a mid-size manufacturer used unannounced supplier audits to uncover pricing discrepancies and process waste, ultimately cutting procurement costs by 20 percent. They walk through the specific audit framework, the pushback from suppliers, and the ethical boundaries that kept the strategy from becoming adversarial. Along the way, they touch on how this approach differs from traditional scorecard-based cost cutting, and why transparency actually increased supplier trust in the long run. A concrete case study in turning…