Automating the Freight Payables Invoicing Process through ERS

Issue: The process of submitting freight invoices through a third-party TMS provider was becoming an expensive procedure with Ascend’s rapid growth and complex logistics network. Over 80,000 invoices are submitted annually via electronic data interchange (EDI), portal entry, or pdf, each with its individual transaction cost and time to process. Solution: We had already implemented evaluated receipt settlement (ERS) for large raw material purchases and wanted to duplicate the efficiencies in the area of freight payment. Instead of carriers submitting invoices, we are using ERS to queue up their payments in SAP immediately after good issues and nightly batch job.