Freight Cost Control Services: Focus on your core tasks
Would you like to reduce your freight costs, increase productivity, and gain insights into the performance of your logistics service providers? When it comes to supplier invoice and contract rates matching, exception handling, or pro-active monitoring of your freight costs, the freight cost experts at AEB are happy to take over this responsibility for you. Freight Cost Control Services allow you to focus on the core tasks of your supply chain management, while saving time and money, and achieving accuracy and visibility.
Focus on your core tasks
Supply chain managers should be able to spend most of their time on their key responsibility of managing logistics. AEB makes it easy to hand over time-consuming freight cost management tasks. The result: cost efficiencies and better logistics service provider (LSP) management.
Reduce freight costs significantly
You do not have to worry anymore about the time-consuming task of auditing your freight invoices. This will result in savings on your freight cost as well as your operational costs for verification and processing of invoices and corrections.
AEB does not only match and verify your bills against your negotiated freight tariffs – we will also hold these against your shipping orders.
AEB makes sure that discrepancies will be discovered allowing you to pay only for those services actually rendered. This will guarantee a 100% check of the freight bills you receive.
Increase accuracy of freight auditing
AEB digitizes your freight management
processes for more accuracy. Our intelligent solutions are capable of improving
accuracy before and after your goods are shipped.
Examples for this include:
- Calculating
the right freight accounting accruals
- Refining
freight bill logic
- Automating
the re-allocation of freight costs
- Self-billing
etc.
Monitor performance of your logistics service providers
You will receive monthly consolidated
reports which will enable you to continuously monitor service levels and
performance of your logistics service providers. This brings transparency to
your supply chain and allows for data-driven decision-making and planning, for
example:
- Tender management for logistics service providers
- Management of complex carrier contracts
- Negotiating new contracts with carriers
etc.
- Supply chain managers will have access
to analyses, ad hoc reports, alerts, and dashboards.
- Monitoring KPIs, performance analyses,
and other reports are just a mouse click away.
Business Intelligence made easy
You will receive monthly consolidated reports which will enable you to continuously monitor service levels and performance of your logistics service providers. This brings transparency to your supply chain and allows for data-driven decision-making and planning, for example:
- Tender management for logistics service providers
- Management of complex carrier contracts
- Negotiating new contracts with carriers etc.
- Supply chain managers will have access to analyses, ad hoc
reports, alerts, and dashboards.
Monitoring KPIs, performance analyses, and other reports are just a mouse click away.
Process automation and seamless integration
IT automation forms the backbone of AEB's services which have been certified with the seal of quality by Germany’s ‘Bundesverband IT-Mittelstand e.V. (BITMi)’, guaranteeing 100% service, quality, and future reliability. And through standardized templates, AEB can create interfaces to your ERP and the ERPs of your logistic service providers.
Customers already mastering their transport & freight management with AEB software
Questions?
Which carriers can be integrated with Freight Cost Control Services?
Essentially, you can link any carrier that is capable of providing status and event data. AEB handles the technical integration for you. Ideally, the carrier should use an industry standard such as the EDIFACT message IFTSTA. If so, the link can be configured with just a few clicks.
What about the various parameters that the carriers use? Each one has its own terminology, even though they all send similar data.
We convert the carriers’ data into a standardized language. That makes it easier to work with the multiple carriers and also facilitates carrier-to-carrier analyses. This is especially important with KPIs, so that you aren’t comparing apples and oranges.
Which types of freight costs can Freight Cost Control Services handle?
Freight costs almost always consist of several components calculated in completely different ways. Here are a few examples:
- Simple fixed prices
- Different types of fee scales
- Percentage-based surcharges on other fees
- Freely programmable rules
Freight costs can vary based on completely different factors, including chargeable weight, volume, country of departure or destination, postal code, number and type of packages, distance, Incoterm, or value of goods. Freight Cost Control Services can process price agreements based on these or other factors as a large number of standard values are supported and can be extended if needed.