{"id":1224,"date":"2016-07-11T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartvco.com\/trasporti-e-costi-nascosti-gli-errori-di-fatturazione\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:56:07","slug":"transport-and-hidden-costs-billing-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartvco.com\/en\/transport-and-hidden-costs-billing-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport and hidden costs: billing errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Transportation is a key activity in the life of companies: raw materials, components, semi-finished and finished products have to be transported to the recipients.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">It&#39;s important for companies regularly calculate and allocate the cost of transport, in order to monitor the profitability of sales made.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">To make things more complicated contributes the frequency with which billing errors occur in transportation: these <strong>errors affect<\/strong> the average annual transport costs <strong>for 1-1.5%<\/strong>. It means an increase in costs that can not be recovered without activity that can identify such errors and then prodromal to the credit notes request and management.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">To reduce this outlay, the most organized companies adopt of &quot;freight audit&quot; systems (internal or external, outsourced), with the following objectives:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Contain or, even better, reduce transport costs,<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Improve the allocation of transport costs to the product \/ line \/ customer,<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Reduce transport exceptions,<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Verify compliance with the company policy on transport.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Major obstacles to overcome to adopt a system to avoid billing errors are the chronic lack of time and specific domain expertise in the company.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">These are the main reasons why an increasing number of companies choose to outsource (to specialized operators) such activity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">To understand how SmartVCO can support you in this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartvco.com\/controllo-performance.php?lang=en#monitoraggio-fatture-trasporto-tab\">MONITORING OF TRANSPORT BILLING<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation is a key activity in the life of companies: raw materials, components, semi-finished and finished products have to be transported to the recipients. 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