Surveys, inspections & inventory audits
Damage surveyed, conditions inspected, and inventories audited in port and warehouse settings, with photographs and findings you can put in front of anyone.
Who this helps
The decision this work supports
What happened to the lot, and what evidence supports the claim?
As an independent, we can examine the status of your inventory in the warehouses and be your eyes and ears in the field, keeping watch over your valuable supply. While we are surveying or sampling your inventory, we represent only your interest. You can be assured of accurate representation and reporting.
The practice is grounded in years of insurance investigation work: field investigations, detailed documentation fit to stand as supporting evidence, claims pursuing subrogation, and losses falling under the rules of General Average. When the condition of a lot is in question, the record we hand you is built to hold up.
Inventory Audits are the core audit service. An experienced commodity specialist can assess product characteristics, condition, and origin-related differences that a conventional accounting count may not capture. Collateral and Asset Verification is available as a specialized Inventory Audit when the assignment calls for additional reconciliation, visual verification, or sensory evaluation.
On assignment
- Damage surveying in port and warehouse settings.
- Inspections and audits of your inventory.
- Load in and load out supervision.
- Photographs of damage and external conditions.
- Reports detailing any conditions found.
- Investigations of loss and discrepancy.
Experience on file
- Primary surveyor, inspector, and coordinator for a major insurer through the catastrophic losses of Hurricane Sandy.
- Retained by the Green Coffee Association to sample cargo in dispute under the arbitration clause of the GCA contract.
- Large-scale survey and sampling of cargo damaged in transit, domestic and international.
- Reconditioning and expedited salvage operations, organized and coordinated.