Much more than just transparent transports: Minimize your freight costs. Maximize your cash flow.
ASSIST4 Freight gives you efficient control over your transport costs throughout the entire process. It lets you know in advance exactly what your costs will be, and provides you with credit note or e-billing options to automate your invoice processes. It doesn’t matter whether you calculate your freight costs in advance to support sales, or during goods issue/receipt.
Quotes & Contracts Qualifier
A complete set of quotes is the basis of all freight calculation. ASSIST4 works with your quotes, analyzing the various methods of calculation, cost components (weight, distance in road kilometers or tariffs, zone- and freight-dependent costs) and SLAs. Quotes that would otherwise be inscrutable—road, air or sea, even in foreign currencies—can then be compared with the click of a mouse.
Freight Cost Calculator ASSIST4 uses this basis to calculate your freight costs for each delivery or transport so that information on freight costs are uniform throughout the company and always up to date. This makes it possible to quickly and securely automate the reallocation of freight costs to customers, suppliers or internal cost centers.
AlternaTips Simulations and advance inquiries also utilize the base quotes, lending flexibility to the decision-making process. Which mode of transport would be most affordable? Which carriers are possibilities for a given route? Which of those is the most cost-effective? The most reliable? The Freight Calculator business service has answers to all these questions.
Auto-Audit Double-checking incoming freight invoices is time-consuming, which is why many companies unfortunately never get around to it. ASSIST4 Freight gets you back on track. ASSIST4 is familiar with all the quotes and has often calculated the freight costs in advance, so incoming invoices are automatically double-checked. If the invoice matches the precalculation, payment instructions are automatically forwarded to Financial Accounting. But if the ASSISTant finds a discrepancy, a proactive alert is generated.
Self-Billing Switching to a self-billing procedure is faster still. Instead of waiting for the invoices from your transport service providers, you can send them “credit notes” for the freight costs calculated by ASSIST4.
E-Billing Enabler All these processes for calculating and paying freight costs can be carried out electronically with even greater automation. ASSIST4 can initiate payment transactions in your financial system, receive and process electronic invoices such as those in EDI format from your business partners and transmit the credit notes back along the same path.
Simulations Trial without error: ASSIST4 Freight Management lets you experiment with individual transports from an entirely different perspective. Would a different business partner be more affordable? Could we save transport costs by restructuring our regional warehouses? ASSIST4 Freight knows the answers to these questions as well.
