SAP Business One Container Management

Do you purchase products from abroad? Or are you an importer of certain goods? Then you have to deal with various logistics steps when transporting and importing these items and possibly a long delivery time.

Resolv 's SAP Business One Container Management functionality helps you get a grip on this logistical process. This functionality connects seamlessly with SAP Business One.

Steps

Monitoring logistics steps

The SAP Business One Container Management module tracks the entire transport process of your goods, step by step. A step or shipment is a movement from A to B, for example in a shipping container, truck or cargo plane.

Every shipment involves a status change that the carrier will communicate to you. The order status helps you plan more accurately and also helps you communicate clearly to your customers about when they can expect certain items.

The impact of this can even be transferred to your webshop or online portal so that the delivery time is exactly right there as well.

Even if there are unexpected delays, you always know exactly where your goods are with this module.

Understanding the status of transportation helps you plan and communicate more accurately to your buyers.

A major advantage of Container Management is that you can distribute order lines across multiple containers .

This way you maintain a certain flexibility and orders are not waiting unnecessarily until the order is ready for shipment in total.

Cost

Monitoring logistics costs

The various shipments or logistics steps also involve costs. Consider the costs of the carrier or the party arranging the transport, handling costs, customs costs, import costs, insurance, and so on. If all goes well, you should have estimated these costs in advance or receive them via an airway bill or bill of lading, for example.

However, actual costs can sometimes vary depending on the economy, supply and exchange rates. These fluctuations affect the margin of the products you sell.

Especially if the production costs of the items you order are low, it is precisely the logistics costs that largely determine the final sales price.

The Container Management module helps you get a better grip on the actual (pure) transportation costs of your ordered goods.

The Container Management module helps you get a better grip on the actual (pure) transport costs of your ordered goods and avoid fluctuations. You can retroactively calculate the pure delivery price and base your sales price on that.

The fixed transfer price or average purchase price can be high enough to absorb transport fluctuations. But if you use FIFO, you can also choose to make the transfer price dependent on the current pure transportation costs. This can be done by having these lot prices automatically valued based on the landed cost included in the shipments. This creates a more accurate profit and loss determination.

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How does this functionality work?

Container Management is an innovative solution for SAP Business One that provides manufacturers, distributors and third-party logistics providers with visibility and control over incoming containers and inventory.

This improvement can greatly improve continuity and service levels in your supply chain.

Bycatch

Goods receipt also benefits!

Once the ordered items reach their destination (your warehouse), the SAP Business One Container Management module also makes order entry easier.

This is especially true if one container load contains many different purchase orders. Then you no longer have to look for all the individual orders together and book them in by hand, but you can book 100 orders bundled in at once, so to speak.

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