Audit, Payment & Claims: Taking the Tedium Out of Freight Invoice Processing
How are you handling freight invoices? Most processes can't efficiently integrate financial data from multiple external sources, both manual and automated. Inevitably, undetected errors, excessive paperwork and lack of visibility hurt your staff's productivity and the company's profitability.
Audit, Payment & Claims from Manhattan Associates transforms a hodgepodge of cumbersome data sources into a consistent database of freight invoices. You can audit any charges that have been interfaced with Audit, Payment & Claims from any warehouse or transportation management application including accessorials and fuel surcharges.
The solution greatly streamlines the processing of freight invoices, payments and reconciliation. With consistent data that's readily accessible and auditable, your staff will:
- Audit freight invoices including all accessorials
- Catch errors in freight invoices
- Reduce handling time
- Catch duplicate invoices and prevent overpayments
- Monitor carrier performance
- Gain full visibility into freight charges from all sources across multiple distribution centers
- Support freight cost allocation needs to the SKU level
- Support cargo claims
- Manage detention claims
Matching, Drilling Down, Flagging, Centralizing and Other Automated Delights
Audit, Payment & Claims is packed with features in five functional areas: Integration, Invoice Management, Invoice Matching, Claims Management and Reconciliation and Payment. Some of the solution's key capabilities:
- Manages freight bills and parcel invoices through a centralized control center
- Matches and audits freight bills to detect errors
- Prepares charges within tolerance for payment and flags out of tolerance or discrepant charges for reconciliation
- Provides drill-down access to all levels of invoices
- Manages claims for discrepant charges and shipments
- Provides a closed loop transaction reconciliation process
- Simplifies billing and reduces freight payment errors
- Provides financial interface to financial systems
- Supports fit cost allocation needs
Explore the Transportation Lifecycle Management process - click the diagram below for an interactive approach to understanding Manhattan's solution.
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Contact Information: To learn more about Manhattan Associates' supply chain solutions, simply complete the information request form, and we will contact you. For North & South America, call +1 877.596.9208 or e-mail info_americas@manh.com. For global inquiries, call +44 (0)1344 318000 or e-mail info_global@manh.com.