Freight Auditing
The Smart Way to Lower Costs: Expert Freight Checking and Freight Auditing
Freight invoices are complex. Checking them is time-consuming and many audit departments are lacking in logistics expertise. Many companies only spot check their invoices – and miss out on a lot of money because of it. Freight auditing and invoice checking by Städtler makes it easy for you to achieve effective controlling and you will quickly benefit from lower costs.
Freight Auditing
Your Freight Auditing in the Best Possible Hands
We take care of your freight auditing—you can concentrate on your logistic challenges. Our experts …
… check your freight invoices from all carriers (CEP, surface, air, sea) .
… clear up any differences or ambiguities with carriers/forwarders.
… arrange for changes in case of incorrect invoices.
… allocate individual items and assign them to the appropriate freight payer.
… carry out freight releases and possibly booking of the freight in the purchaser's system.
… create booking documents.
… offer freight controlling: revealing statistics, evaluations and key figures.
… create transparency about freight costs and shipment structure.
Invoice Checking
Your Benefit: Our Experts Are Ready to Take Over for You
We design our freight checking/freight auditing services individually according to our customer’s needs. If you regularly employ multiple forwarders, have transport orders that amount to more than one million euro per year and employ more than one type of transport (LCL, LTL/FTL, air, sea, etc.), outsourcing freight checking will pay for itself in a very short time.
Lower freight costs
Our customers save an average of 10% on their direct and indirect freight costs per year with freight checking/freight auditing, because we detect errors on invoices and optimize logistics costs.
Our customers save an average of 10% on their direct and indirect freight costs per year with freight checking/freight auditing, because we detect errors on invoices and optimize logistics costs.
Efficient checking processes
Take advantage of our experts’ experience, our modern tools and proven processes. We currently check freight for clients in all types of transport, from parcel service to sea freight with a volume of over one billion euro per year. Profit from this efficiency!
Take advantage of our experts’ experience, our modern tools and proven processes. We currently check freight for clients in all types of transport, from parcel service to sea freight with a volume of over one billion euro per year. Profit from this efficiency!
Transparency for better decision-making
Our logistics experts don’t just check invoices. For freight controlling, we support your logistics with informative reports. In benchmarking with similar companies, you see where your potential for lower costs lies.
Our logistics experts don’t just check invoices. For freight controlling, we support your logistics with informative reports. In benchmarking with similar companies, you see where your potential for lower costs lies.
You would like to get more information on invoice checking?
Get in touch with us now. We will answer your questions.
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Freight Controlling
We Create an Optimal Basis for You
We offer freight checking and freight auditing services based on the rates your company has arranged with its logistics partners. But what if these arrangements don’t work to your advantage or are not in line with the market? We develop freight controlling systems that create added value and give you better control.
Transparency about costs and services in logistics
Service provider assessment and benchmarks
Logistic key figure systems
Tendering for logistic services
Early warning indicators for controlling logistic processes
Foundation for strategic decisions for warehousing and transport
Information regarding industry-specific cost drivers
Parameters for controlling and monitoring service providers
Together, we develop the goals and scope of a freight controlling that is worthy of its name. Our experts explain the development of key figures and draft measures to minimize costs and risks. We use comparison data from our own, comprehensive tariff database with national and international freight rates for benchmarks.
Our recommendation:
Arrange a non-binding consultation with our Logistics Consulting Expert Holger Niemann.Telefon: +49 911 45009-311
E-Mail: sales@staedtler-logistik.de
Software Solutions
High-Performance Technologies for Successful Freight Auditing
Outsourcing your freight checking/freight auditing to our company ensures not only the benefits of our many years of experience in logistics, but you also profit from our market-leading software systems for transport logistics. For freight checking/freight auditing, we use our freight management software LP2, supplemented by the analysis tool SP2.
Advantages
Advantages
- Manual entry of shipment and invoice data
- Automated data interface, if needed
- Fully automated: electronic invoice checking with InvoiceMatching
- Import into your ERP or accounting department is possible
- Extended analyses like benchmarking, evaluations and simulations for tendering procedures, key figures, shipment structure analysis, and other reports
- Optional delivery of the audited invoice data into existing ERP/accounting systems
LP2 is the leading transport management software for manufacturing companies. This specialist software for shipping and freight management also includes freight calculation and invoicing. Take advantage of these benefits.
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Learn more about LP2 ›
You would like to get more information on software solutions?
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Get in touch with us now. We will answer your questions.
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Credit Note Procedure
There Is Another Way: The Credit Note Procedure
Credit note procedures are, in many cases, a more efficient alternative to traditional forwarder invoicing (and the associated invoice checking). You can outsource the entire process to us.
We import your shipment data (electronic or in paper form), tariffs and credit note data into our LP2 and deliver the data you need to create your credit notes (electronically, directly into your ERP/your accounting) and take care of claim management.
Your advantage: Invoice/credit note checking is now up to the logistics service provider!
We import your shipment data (electronic or in paper form), tariffs and credit note data into our LP2 and deliver the data you need to create your credit notes (electronically, directly into your ERP/your accounting) and take care of claim management.
Your advantage: Invoice/credit note checking is now up to the logistics service provider!
Our range of services:
- Creation and archiving of freight documents
- Calculation and invoicing of freight costs
- Creation of credit notes
- Creation of invoices for purchasers (if necessary)
- Creation of detailed statistics regarding transport events
- Communication with forwarders
- Printing and sending of credit notes, and invoices, if any, with your corporate design
Experience and Method
How we take over your invoice verification step by step
You can expect the following procedure:Preliminary discussion and quotation phase
During our preliminary discussion, we discuss the general project requirements. We inquire extensively regarding current quantity and cost volumes, employed forwarders, distribution over transport modes and IT in use.
Non-binding inspection of selected freight invoices and rates
Quotation preparation: We now know how and where we can best support you in the checking processes. This is the foundation for our offer providing a clear, transparent cost structure.
Start of our collaboration
Kick-off: appointment of contact persons, basic processes, possible setup of IT interfaces
Step-by-step transfer of invoice checking/freight auditing to our company,for instance, split up based on your locations and forwarders
Continuous monitoring
Continuous monitoring and claim management
Regular reporting of checked invoices, regular status meetings
We check freight worth over one billion euro per year
Freight auditing, invoice checking, credit note procedure and freight controlling – with our unrivalled experience and unique method.
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