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

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)