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Title: I saved a logistics company $4,200/month on IT costs using 5 checklists — here's the exact system (free framework inside)

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I was a few months into consulting for a mid-sized logistics firm. They were bleeding cash on IT — $9,800/month on a stack they barely used. The owner thought it was “just the cost of doing business.” Turns out, it wasn't.

I dug into their invoices and found:

3 unused SaaS tools for inventory management (they’d migrated to a new platform but kept paying for the old ones — $1,200/month).

60TB of unused cloud storage (they’d upgraded to a premium tier years ago and never cleaned up — $800/month).

Two redundant CRM integrations (one synced twice, billing double for data processing — $400/month).

An overpriced support contract (they were paying for 24/7 premium helpdesk, but only used it 3 times in 6 months — $1,800/month).

I built a simple system: 5 checklists to audit IT spend weekly, monthly, and quarterly.…

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