Enterprise Freight Auditing & Analytics : Track and Trace : ProcessWeaver

Freight rating and billing errors are a common and costly problem for businesses that ship products. With up to 20% of all carrier invoices billed incorrectly, companies pay millions of dollars in overpayments. Auditing and paying freight bills are very involved business processes that consume vital resources, or the task is outsourced. Companies now have a ready-to-use solution to meet their auditing and analytics requirements.

EFA for SAP is a comprehensive and easy-to-use platform that allows your organization to collect, aggregate, audit, and analyze shipping, tracking, and billing information across all your carriers. EFA is written in ABAP/4 and installs quickly and easily into your existing SAP system.

FREIGHT AUDITING

EFA's freight auditing functionality allows you to audit each and every carrier invoice by checking for errors, fraudulent use, and carrier service failures. EFA audits your carrier invoices for things such as accurate contract rates, negotiated discounts, appropriate freight classification, weights, assessorial charges, fuel surcharges, duplicate invoices, and overcharges making certain that when you pay your freight bills, you pay the correct amount. EFA includes native SAP screens that allow you to review carrier invoices, accept and reject transactions, approve invoices, and automatically create SAP Accounts Payable Documents.

FREIGHT ANALYTICS

EFA provides 360 degree view of disparate logistics information that can bog an organization down. After EFA collects, aggregates, and centralizes your shipping, tracking, and billing information, it allows you to orchestrate how this information is presented to individual enterprise users based on how they need it. EFA allows users to analyze and report shipping activity by date, carrier, service type, customer, sales order, delivery number. EFA can present carrier invoice details as well in SAP.

EFA analyzes your outbound shipments against carrier invoices and delivery data, allowing you to:

Audit carrier invoices for errors
Automatically generate SAP Accounts Payable Documents
Identify service failures and guaranteed service refunds
View carrier shipping, tracking, and invoice detail
Identify shipping errors that are resulting in assessorial charges
Generate reports by plant, sales order, delivery, shipment, date, carrier, account, service type, and more
Repurpose logistics data across multiple business processes