What is supplier overpayment recovery?
Supplier overpayment recovery — often called profit recovery — identifies amounts paid beyond a supplier’s commercial entitlement (what the supplier was actually allowed to bill), validates them against contracts and transaction evidence, and recovers the value through a credit, refund, repayment or offset. Rivvun adds category playbooks, opportunity qualification, supplier-case management, finance reconciliation and recurrence prevention on top.
What is an AP recovery audit or post-payment audit?
An AP recovery audit — also called a post-payment audit — reviews paid invoices, payments, credits and supplier statements to find money already lost: duplicate payments, overbilled rates, missed credits. Rivvun runs this recovery audit continuously with an AI agent rather than as a one-off project, and a finding becomes a supplier claim only once the transaction population, governing terms, calculation and counter-evidence are confirmed.
How is continuous supplier recovery different from a contingency recovery audit?
A contingency recovery audit is a one-off, backward-looking sweep, typically paid as a share of recovered value — and it leaves root causes in place. Rivvun runs the recovery audit continuously: the same tests on every payment cycle, claims held to your evidence standards and case governance, and each confirmed root cause converted into a forward control that stops recurrence. Cadence, supplier-engagement model and commercial structure are defined in the agreed scope.
What data is needed for a supplier recovery scan?
Invoices, payments, credit memos, supplier statements, contracts and amendments, POs, receipts or service evidence, supplier master data, and the category-specific records needed to test the recovery hypothesis. Rivvun reconciles the eligible population and identifies missing evidence before any case is claimed.
How are missed supplier credits identified and recovered?
Rivvun reconciles supplier statements, credit notes, open items, invoices and payments to find credits issued but never applied, offsets duplicated or missed, and balances that do not reconcile. The validated credit is then driven through application, refund or offset and closed only when the supplier balance and ledger evidence agree.
How are category recovery playbooks used?
Each playbook defines the recovery hypothesis, qualifying transaction pattern, governing terms, required data, eligibility, exclusions, evidence threshold, claim window, calculation and permitted action. Only opportunities that clear the playbook’s decision gates advance into a recovery case.
How does Rivvun calculate net recoverable value?
Rivvun starts from the gross signal and subtracts existing or unapplied credits, reversals, later amendments, supplier counter-evidence, non-recoverable exclusions and other validated offsets. Incremental recovery cost is reported separately, so finance can distinguish gross recovery from net finance-accepted recovery.
How does finance validate recovered cash?
Finance validates the credit, refund, repayment or offset, confirms it was applied to the correct supplier balance and transaction population, and reconciles the resulting general-ledger treatment. Recovered cash stays separate from realized hard savings, cost avoidance and working-capital value.
How is recovered leakage prevented from recurring?
The validated root cause becomes a forward control in Invoice Assurance, Contract Compliance or Direct Spend Assurance. Rivvun then monitors the affected supplier, category and transaction pattern to confirm whether the exception recurs once the control is live.
Does Rivvun replace supplier statement reconciliation or duplicate-payment tools?
No. Those tools remain useful for specific matching and reconciliation tasks. Rivvun adds the contract, entitlement, category-playbook, counter-evidence, supplier-case and finance-closure layer required to turn a signal into defensible recovery and a reusable preventive control.
