At a time when transport costs are fluctuating and the complexity of global supply chains is constantly increasing, a precise calculation tool is proving indispensable for freight forwarders.
Given the volatility of fuel prices, uncertainty about transport routes and increasing customer demands, it is crucial to have a tool that enables accurate and rapid calculation of transport costs.
Calculating transport costs is a task that is as individual as it is systematic. This is why it is so well suited to implementation with advanced algorithms and data analysis. The tool is optimised for your specific area of application, whether for spot quotes or complex calculations across multiple modes of transport, and tailored to your process. Time-consuming and repetitive steps are reduced through automated processes. Your calculation department can use the time saved to analyse the results of the calculation tool and identify potential for optimisation.
Where in the transport chain do hidden costs arise or savings opportunities arise? Our transport cost calculation tool provides the basis for collecting and analysing this data and displaying it via user-friendly interfaces. This gives you a detailed overview of your cost structure. By identifying cost drivers and potential for efficiency gains, you can take targeted measures to reduce costs.
Fluctuating fuel prices are often transferred manually to your calculation files. With our tool, you benefit from the ability to create direct interfaces to external databases. These interfaces provide current data from portals such as the fuel market at desired intervals. This allows you to automatically access the latest price developments and adjust your calculations accordingly. This enables you to respond more quickly and accurately to market changes, minimising risks and increasing your cost certainty.
By minimising time-consuming calculations, we increase the profitability of your company. Together, we develop a tailor-made tool that gradually automates the individual steps of your calculation, achieves a significant increase in efficiency in your processes and allows you to use resources in a more targeted manner.
By using a concrete and individualised tool for your calculation, you enable the (automated) integration of external data. This can include both live data, such as raw material prices, and data on future price developments from internal or external predictive pricing models.
Various political and social developments are increasing the pressure on your business to incorporate sustainability considerations into your calculations. Such parameters can be easily integrated using your calculation tool and a high degree of automation. This allows you to meet customer demands for greater sustainability. The overview provided by the tool also offers advantages for legal obligations, such as those arising from the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act.
We use efficient post-calculations to check the profitability and economic efficiency of your existing customer business. This gives you a clear overview and transparency of your gross profits. This creates a solid basis for successful customer discussions and targeted pricing measures to optimise your business relationships and profits in the long term.
Our strength lies in working with you to design and implement a calculation tool that is precisely tailored to the circumstances and requirements of your company. In this way, we create the basis for overcoming current challenges while simultaneously increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of your processes in a targeted manner.
To this end, we bring in a well-coordinated team of requirements engineers, industry experts and experienced developers. This combination ensures that functional, technical and operational aspects are given equal consideration – from the calculation of daily prices to the processing of large volumes of shipment data. We design the systems so that data imports run smoothly and cost models can be regularly adapted to your specifications.
The solution is not based on a standard formula, but is tailored to your individual needs. Flexible functions allow all essential transport parameters to be mapped. Whether freight matrix, zone matrix, project-based calculations or other use cases – the result is a solution that precisely supports your specific practice.
In addition, we develop structures that provide you with clarity about gross profits in your existing business and facilitate post-calculations for price changes. On request, we can seamlessly integrate the system into your existing IT landscape, for example via interfaces to CRM, TMS or other relevant applications.
We identify and evaluate the current situation of your calculation processes. This enables us to analyse which stage of automation is within reach for you and what measures you need to take to achieve this or higher stages.
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