What shipping really costs you

Freight is sold in one module and bought in another. May charged customers 18,400.00 and paid carriers 24,900.00, and the 6,500.00 between them exists only in the join, route by route, where it can finally be fixed.

RuleJoin freight charged to freight paid per route monthly, because the two sides land in different modules and the gap is a price list nobody reviews.

Neverread freight recovery from either module alone. Sales sees the charges, purchasing sees the carrier bills, and the loss lives in between.

Freight is sold in one module and bought in another. Only the join knows whether shipping earns or bleeds.

◆ May freight, both sidescharged, paid, and the gap.

Freight, May 2026	Amount
Charged to customers, invoice conditions	18,400.00
Paid to carriers, settled through purchasing	-24,900.00
Freight under-recovery	-6,500.00

The charged side sums the freight conditions the waterfall page shows per invoice; the paid side settles through service orders into the purchasing module’s flow. Neither module alone can see the 6,500.00. Sample values are illustrative, never client data.

◆ The price list nobody reviewsfreight charges age in place.

Customer freight charges live in condition records set at contract time, while carrier costs move with fuel and renegotiation. Practitioners report freight price lists untouched for years while costs walked away from them. The monthly join is the review that keeps the list honest.

◆ Route-level truthaverages hide the bleeders.

A single under-recovery number hides routes that earn against routes that bleed. Cut by route and customer, the join turns one awkward total into a short list of fixable prices.

Use case

Problem

Freight charges age in condition records while carrier costs climb, the two sides live in different modules, and shipping bleeds quietly.

What we build

Charged and paid joined monthly per route and customer, under-recovery trended, the charge list reviewed against real carrier costs.

What you get

Shipping that knows its own economics: the gap on one page, bleeding routes named, and a freight price list with a review date.

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Terms on this page

SAP: The vendor. Systems, Applications, and Products in data processing.
HANA: SAP’s in-memory database, the platform S/4 runs on.
SD: Sales and Distribution, the order-to-cash module.
freight condition: The charge line on the customer invoice.
carrier settlement: The cost side, paid through purchasing.
under-recovery: Charged minus paid, below zero.
route cut: The per-lane view that names the bleeders.