CT International Freight Audit and Payment Services

CT Logistics offers a wide range of International Freight Audit, Payment, and Management Information capabilities based out of Birmingham, UK, as follows:

• International Freight Bill Audit
• Payment
• Reporting Services

These services can transform your logistics management and back-office operations while having a direct effect on your bottom line. Historically, International Bills are complex with a whole range of diverse parameters that make understanding and budgeting your costs both difficult and time consuming.

A sample of these financial factors can include:

• International Currency exchange rates
• International Fuel surcharges
• War Risk adjustments
• Security Fees
• International Measurement Units
• Inco Terms
• Varying Cube/Dimension factors
• Port Congestion Fees
• Local Taxes
• Overseas Demurrage/Detention
• Varying rating structures
• Export/Import Licensing

Outsourcing your International Freight Bill Payment processing to CT will be an excellent business decision and allow you to experience benefits producing:

A guaranteed 100% audit of all your complex International freight movements that will uncover errors on your carrier invoices, such as:

• Rating Errors
• Duplicate Billings
• Duplicate Shipments
• Additional Line Items
• Duplicate Supplementary Items
• Invoices for shipments not shipped/executed
• Unapproved Demurrage / Detention
• Currency Uplifting

Typically from direct cost savings alone our International customers save approximately 4 to 10 percent of their annual transportation and logistics expenditure.

Additionally and aside from the visual cost savings benefits also include:

• Electronic billing receipt and carrier payment in all Worldwide / International currencies
• Online facility for carrier payment inquiries
• Customized technology, reporting and processes
• CT Logistics’ FreitRater system with OCR transaction technology, processes, rates, validates and pays all International freight invoices
• Contract terms checking – business rules established and achieved
• CT Logistics’ Web-based, interactive management tools, provides accurate freight reporting, carrier data and detailed freight spend data which help identify new opportunities to further optimize your supply chain and reduce logistics costs.