Logistics cost budgeting is a key component of effective management in manufacturing companies. FlexiEPM is an advanced platform that automates the planning and monitoring of transportation and warehousing costs, adapting to the unique operational structure of your organization.
With FlexiEPM, you can integrate logistics budgeting with sales and production plans, streamlining the budgeting process and ensuring data consistency. The solution supports both logistics operators and manufacturing-trading companies, enabling precise management reporting.
Choose FlexiEPM as your system for efficient planning, forecasting, and control of logistics costs.
Optimize transportation cost budgeting by eliminating manual spreadsheet management. FlexiEPM serves as a support system for planning variable selling costs, including transportation and delivery to customers.
The platform supports both B2B and B2C logistics models. You can easily include delivery costs to retail chains, key clients, and direct-to-consumer e-commerce deliveries.
With FlexiEPM, you can seamlessly integrate transportation cost models with sales budgets. The most common approach is shipment budgeting based on unit rates, where a logistics coefficient multiplied by the sales volume enables full automation of the budgeting process.
The system also supports automatic planning of transportation cost re-invoicing within the budget. Moreover, profitability reports can incorporate margin calculations that reconcile revenues and delivery costs, providing full insight into operational efficiency.
FlexiEPM helps create budget models that cover both fixed and variable costs for warehouses and logistics centers. It can operate as part of a comprehensive corporate budgeting system or as a dedicated solution for logistics operators.
Fixed costs such as rent, utilities, and security are planned using intuitive templates that assign budget responsibility according to the company’s organizational structure. This allows you to configure a budgeting process tailored to your specific needs.
For variable logistics operations, FlexiEPM supports the use of unit rate models to allocate costs for packaging, order picking, and shipment preparation, ensuring accurate and dynamic planning.
Automated budgeting based on parameters and coefficients guarantees data consistency and accuracy, regardless of how often assumptions change. The system continuously updates sales cost budgets in response to operational forecasts, offering full support in dynamic business environments.
Monitoring logistics efficiency requires accurate and consistent data. FlexiEPM combines financial and operational information in a multidimensional data model, enabling systematic tracking of logistics KPIs.
Reporting and planning based on FlexiEPM provide a universal framework for evaluating logistics performance. Managers gain access to unified reports of key metrics, such as cost per pallet, cost per kilometer, or average shipment cost, supporting data-driven decisions.
Centralized KPI calculation supports the analysis of delivery conditions by customer or distribution channel, offering a complete view of operational performance. Accurate KPIs form a solid foundation for planning assumptions, improving the reliability of budgets and forecasts, and enhancing logistics management efficiency.
FlexiEPM supports material purchase budgeting in manufacturing companies. Integrated with the production budgeting model, the platform enables accurate forecasting of material and component requirements tailored to your production processes.
With automatic MRP data import, the system ensures highly accurate operational forecasts. Purchase orders can be planned at the individual SKU level, allowing for detailed and precise budgeting.
FlexiEPM efficiently combines inventory data with production consumption forecasts, generating consistent procurement reports that support informed decision-making and enhance logistics efficiency.
FlexiEPM provides an advanced environment for allocating logistics costs within profitability models. Many organizations use this solution to accurately assign delivery and warehouse operation costs to specific customers and products.
The system allocates costs based on accounting data, using operational shipment information as allocation keys. This ensures a fair and transparent distribution of costs across products and customers, improving profitability analysis accuracy.
The logistics cost allocation model can be implemented independently of ERP or warehouse systems. Thanks to its flexibility, FlexiEPM links financial postings with operational analytics, assigning costs to locations, customers, or distribution channels. The system’s independence from operational integrations makes it effective across various business environments.
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