Understand each difference
Trace unexpected charges to service, weight or surcharges, with the context your team needs to investigate.
INVOICE CONTROL
Find out how to control your shipping costs.
Compare carrier invoices with expected costs. Understand differences in rates, weight and surcharges, and see how they affect your margin. Explore the potential for your operation with the calculator below.
INVOICE CONTROL / EXAMPLE
Make the difference visible.
Expected cost€8.20
Actual cost€10.02
Variance to investigate+ €1.82
Transport and surcharges explain the difference. On a customer charge of €12.50, margin drops from €4.30 to €2.48.
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Compare expected and billed costs
Bring shipment details and carrier charges together to identify differences at shipment level.
Turn insight into action
Prioritise discrepancies for review and see how actual costs affect the result of each order.
ROI CALCULATOR
Explore the potential in your freight spend.
Enter your annual freight spend and see what invoice control could mean across three savings scenarios.
We automatically calculate three scenarios: 3%, 5% and 7% of your annual freight spend.
Get a tailored calculation ↗POTENTIAL GROSS SAVINGS / YEAR
€30,000to€70,000
- 3% Low scenario
- €30,000
- 5% Mid scenario
- €50,000
- 7% High scenario
- €70,000
Annual freight spend × scenario percentage. Amounts are gross, before service costs.
Illustrative scenarios, not a forecast or guaranteed savings. Actual results depend on your contracts, invoices and identified discrepancies.
FROM VARIANCE TO MARGIN
A cost variance becomes meaningful when you see what it does to order margin.
The example below shows the mechanism: an order calculated at € 4.30 margin ends at € 2.48 after actual carrier cost and surcharges. MMCore shows which cost components caused the difference.
ORDER RESULTMM-284491
CUSTOMER CHARGE€ 12,50What you invoice the customer
CUSTOMER CHARGE
The amount charged to the customer for this order.
ACTUAL MARGIN
Customer charge minus actual execution cost.
Picking & packing€ 2,10€ 2,10—
Storage€ 0,85€ 0,85—
Packaging€ 0,60€ 0,60—
Transport€ 4,20€ 4,95+ € 0,75
Fuel surcharge€ 0,45€ 0,62+ € 0,17
Extra carrier surcharge€ 0,00€ 0,90+ € 0,90
EXPECTED COST€ 8,20
ACTUAL COST€ 10,02
EXPECTED MARGIN€ 4,3034,4%
ACTUAL MARGIN€ 2,48€ 2.48 / € 12.50 = 19.8%
MARGIN VARIANCE− € 1,82
Illustrative calculation — not a savings or performance claim.Not one isolated surcharge, but its effect on the result of the order.