Margin Recovery · Auto Parts Distribution
Your suppliers owe you rebates you never claimed.We find them and get them back.
Maizo is a margin recovery firm for auto parts distributors — warehouse distributors, jobbers, and multi-store operations. We audit what you purchased against your line rebates, program-group terms, and growth incentives, then file and manage the claims. There is no software to install, and you only pay a percentage of what we actually recover.
Contingency-based engagement. No recovery, no fee. Roughly 1–2 hours of your team's time per month.
| Agreement | Claimed | Owed |
|---|---|---|
| Supplier AVolume tier 3 — 2.5% | $41,200 | $63,800+$22,600 |
| Supplier BAnnual growth rebate | $0 | $18,400+$18,400 |
| Supplier CQuarterly SKU program | $9,750 | $14,100+$4,350 |
Illustrative figures shown for format only. Every engagement begins with a no-cost estimate against your own purchase and agreement data.
The Problem
Rebate income is earned on the purchase order and lost in the paperwork.
Line rebates spread across dozens of suppliers
Every parts line carries its own rebate schedule — purchase discounts, stocking allowances, and price protection — buried in supplier agreements and program-group letters that nobody reconciles line by line.
Growth and volume targets that shift all year
Quarterly and annual growth incentives move with purchase timing, returns, and mix across thousands of SKUs. When tracking is manual, you claim the tier you remember instead of the tier you actually earned.
Program-group payments that quietly fall short
Buying-group and program-group rebates are calculated on your behalf, then paid on a schedule. A payment that comes in light is rarely disputed — the margin simply leaves the business without anyone noticing.
How It Works
An audit engagement, not a software rollout.
The work sits with us. Across a full engagement, most clients spend one to two hours a month with the Maizo team — comparable to a routine audit, with no implementation and no training.
- Your team: ~1 hour, once
Share your purchase and agreement data
A standard export from SAP or NetSuite, or a direct read-only connection, plus your current supplier rebate agreements. Setup typically takes one call and one data handoff.
- Your team: nothing
We audit every agreement against actual volume
Our technology reconciles each rebate program — tiers, growth targets, SKU and category conditions — against what you actually bought. Our analysts then review every finding before it becomes a claim.
- Your team: approvals only
We file and manage the claims with your suppliers
Maizo prepares the documentation, submits claims to the vendor, and handles the back-and-forth through to resolution. You stay informed and stay in control of every supplier relationship.
- Your team: ~1 hour per month
You collect the recovered margin
Recovered dollars land with you as credits or payments. Maizo invoices a percentage of what was actually recovered — nothing else, and nothing if we find nothing.
Who We Help
Built for auto parts distributors.
We work with companies on the buy side of the automotive aftermarket — warehouse distributors, jobbers, and multi-store parts operations purchasing from parts manufacturers and program groups, then reselling to repair shops and retail. Whatever your footprint, the rebate problem is the same.
Margins too thin to leave anything behind
Auto parts distribution runs on low single-digit net margins. At that level, uncollected rebate income is not a rounding error — it is a meaningful share of the profit on inventory you already bought and moved.
Hundreds of thousands of part numbers
Massive catalogs of part numbers across dozens of supplier lines mean the rebate picture changes with every stock order. No purchasing or AP team can reconcile that by hand each quarter.
Overlapping program-group and growth terms
Line rebates, program-group agreements, growth incentives, stock adjustments, and price protection often stack on the same purchases — and interact in ways a spreadsheet was never built to model.
Why Maizo
A recovery firm, held to the outcome.
Contingency-based
No recovery, no fee
The engagement is self-funded. Our fee is a percentage of dollars actually recovered, so there is no license, no retainer, and no downside if there is nothing to find.
Industry-specific
Built for the aftermarket
We know how line rebates, program-group terms, growth incentives, and stock adjustments work in this industry. That specificity is why we surface claims a generic recovery review would pass over.
Minimal internal lift
Nothing for your team to roll out
No implementation project, no software to buy, no training. Your team provides data and approvals; the audit work, claim filing, and supplier follow-up sit with us.
Systems you already run
Works with SAP and NetSuite
We connect to the ERP you already use to pull purchase history and agreement data — an export or a read-only connection, not a migration.
Integrates With
We connect directly to the ERP systems you already use — no new software for your team to learn.
“We thought our program-group payments were airtight. The audit found six figures in line rebates and growth incentives we had earned and never claimed — and it cost us almost nothing to find out.”
Questions
Straight answers.
No recovery, no fee
Find out what you're owed before you commit to anything.
Share a few details and we will scope a no-cost recovery estimate against your purchase and supplier agreement data. If there is nothing to recover, we will tell you plainly and there is no invoice.
- No recovery, no fee — our fee is a percentage of dollars actually recovered.
- No software to buy, install, or train your team on.
- Roughly 1–2 hours of your team’s time per month.
- Your supplier and program-group relationships stay yours; we work in support of them.