Freight Costs in SAP

Calculate, settle up and evaluate the freight costs in advance with SERKEM. Simple, quick and clear.

Your Requirements

  • Increase of efficiency in distribution
  • Settle up the freight costs transparently and efficiently
  • Establish the freight costs for different types of transportation
  • Recognize differences from the target value immediately
  • Freight costs advance calculation
  • Overview over the shipment costs processing

Our Solution

  • Freight costs advance calculation
  • Shipment costs settlement
  • Freight costs evaluation
  • Integrated freight costs control
  • Freight costs monitor  provides an overview
  • Settlement of freight costs with ERS self-billing procedure

Your Benefits

  • Freight costs in customer order
  • Automated bookings and processes
  • Separate price calculation per freight forwarder
  • Shorter payment periods towards CEP
  • Revision safety because original invoice is available
  • Directly integrated in SAP

The SERKEM Solution in Detail

1. Entry over the customer order and directly come off in the shipment cost information 2. Freight forwarder, route, type of transport, etc are adopted from the order 3. The freight costs are calculated for the customer order 4. The detailed page for the freight costs calculation provides an overview 5. The detailed page of the freight conditions breaks down the positions

At a glance

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    Freight Costs Monitor

    • Account assignment of freight costs
    • Input of the fixed price
    • Freight costs simulation
    • Creation of shipment costs documents
    • Further invoicing to the debitor
    • Collective processing possible
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    Establishment of Shipment Costs Relevance

    • Simple selection of shipment-cost-relevant transports in the freight costs monitor
    • Possibility of an automatic assignment of deliveries and shipment-cost-relevant transports
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    Freight Costs Advance Calculation

    • Calculation of freight costs directly in the shipment cost document
    • Consideration of surcharges
    • Calculation of the latest delivery time (target data)
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    Shipment Costs Settlement

    • Central freight costs monitor contrasts actual with target data
    • Traffic light displays if the freight costs match
    • Manual /automatic booking of receipts over the monitor
    • By differences, there are automatic bookings under consideration of tolerance limits possible
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    Freight Costs Transfer

    • Shipment costs document: display the freight costs calculated by the system per transport as well as the account assignment for the accounting system
    • Automatic generation of purchase orders with service entry sheets
    • Automatic postings
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    ERS Self-billing Procedure

    • Credit memo for service provider replaces the invoice
    • Direct forwarding of freight costs to the accounting system
    • Output of the automatically generated credit memo over all standard communication channel
    • Freight forwarder  verifies the credit memos
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    The ERS credit note procedure in SAP allows you a transparent, efficient and dependable shipment cost settlement with your freight forwarders. The generated credit notes are verified by the forwarder, so the manual invoice verification can be cancelled.

    • Freight costs directly in the customer order apparent
    • Automated freight costs verification and calculation
    • Freight costs evaluation
    • Overview by the freight costs monitor
    • High percentage on automatically postings and processes
    • Different price calculation per forwarder
    • No paper-based invoices
    • Shorter payment periods towards CEP
    • Evaluation possibilities
    • Revision safety because original invoice is available
    • Directly integrated in SAP
    • No interfaces and media discontinuities
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    • Freight costs can be seen directly in the customer order
    • Automated freight costs verification and calculation
    • Freight costs evaluation
    • Overview because of the freight costs monitor
    • High percentage on automated postings and processes
    • Different price calculation per forwarder
    • No paper-based invoices
    • Shorter payment periods towards CEP
    • Evaluation possibilities
    • Revision safety because original invoice is available
    • Directly integrated in SAP
    • No interfaces and media disruptions
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    Extract from our References

    TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG:

    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Turnover: 3,1 Mrd. $ (2013)
    • Employees: 6.500 (2013)

    Success Story TRUMPF

    W. R. Grace & Co

    • Chemical Industry
    • Turnover: 2.586,8 Mio. € (2013/2014)
    • Employees: 10.914 (2013/2014)

     

    Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG

    • Wholesale distributor and service provider
    • Turnover: 2,7 Mrd. € (2013)
    • Employees: 1.763 (2013)