The short answer
Special pricing agreements let an electrical distributor sell below normal cost on a specific job or customer and claim the difference back from the manufacturer. The money leaks in three places: lines that qualified but were never claimed, claims filed after the window closed, and claims calculated on the wrong cost. Match twelve months of invoice lines against active SPAs and your submitted claims, and the unclaimed amount shows up line by line.
Where it hides in electrical distribution
Lines that qualified and were never claimed
Expired and renewed agreements
Claims on the wrong cost
Rejected claims nobody refiles
The records to pull
Twelve to twenty-four months of each. Nothing needs to be installed or connected; a spreadsheet export is enough.
Invoice lines
SPA register
Claim history
The ten-day test
Days 1–2
Days 3–5
Days 6–8
Days 9–10
Specimen · illustrative figures
A $140M electrical distributor with nine branches matched 2.1 million invoice lines against 3,400 active SPAs. About 1.6 percent of lines sold at agreement cost had no claim attached, concentrated in two branches and three manufacturers. Lines still inside the claim window were worth an estimated $180K to $260K, and the same rule applied going forward was worth a similar amount each year.
Stop condition, written first
Stop if fewer than one percent of qualifying lines are unclaimed in both the search period and the holdout, or if the claimable amount still inside the window is below the cost of filing it.
What gets built if it holds
A nightly check that matches new invoice lines to active agreements, attaches the agreement number, and queues the claim before the window closes. It runs inside your operation, belongs to you, and is measured weekly against the dollar range the test produced.
Specimen figures are illustrative and do not describe a Modven client. Reviewed October 10, 2026.