Transport Cost Management System

– WMS-Linked System for Rapid Transport Cost Management and Billing integrated with 3PL –

By calculating accurate freight rates in-house and utilizing them for audit and billing processes, you can significantly reduce the time spent creating invoices and transport cost management reports.

1. Transport Cost Management Features and Functions

Streamlining management through rapid cost reporting and billing


System Overview

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 		Standard support for freight calculations across various modes: road, express, charter, air, and delivery agency services. It is possible to set insurance premiums and discount rates for each shipping record per carrier. Additional fees, such as inspection and vertical transport charges for department store delivery agency services, can also be configured (optional).

2. Challenges and Solution Steps

Step 1: Accurate Freight Calculation

■ Challenges
  1. Transport cost management is dependent on specific individuals, making it difficult to grasp all freight contract types.
  2. Manual freight calculation leads to frequent errors. Spreadsheet software struggles to handle changes in contract types.
  3. The need to estimate freight costs at the time of order receipt.
⇒ Solutions
  1. By registering current freight contracts, anyone can perform accurate calculations, regardless of the person in charge.
  2. Calculations are performed accurately based on registered content. When contracts change, conditions can be easily listed and updated to prevent omissions.
  3. Freight costs can be easily estimated based on region, weight, and quantity for each registered carrier.

Step 2: Efficient Freight Reconciliation

■ Challenges
  1. Reconciling carrier billing details with internal data is time-consuming.
  2. Checking performance against invoices takes too long. There is a need to calculate freight payments in-house for carrier and customer data.
⇒ Solutions
  1. Using freight detail data per shipping label allows for accurate and rapid reconciliation with carrier billing statements.
  2. This can be handled through temporary storage location settings and separate batch processing for shipping operations.

Step 3: Rapid Cost Management Reporting

■ Challenges
  1. The need to manage transport costs by department or product group, but creating allocation data for consolidated shipments is extremely difficult.
⇒ Solutions
  1. Input/Output interface options allow for adding department or product group information, enabling freight splitting for consolidated loads based on weight or quantity.
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