If you store and pick goods for other companies, at month end it is time to bill. When it is done in Excel, money slips away: the pallet that came in mid-month, the mixed carton that cost twice as much to receive or the extra job nobody wrote down.
The usual charges
- →Storage: per pallet, per bin, per cubic meter or per unit, and per day or per month.
- →Receiving: per pallet, per carton or per unit, with a surcharge if it arrives mixed or unannounced.
- →Picking: per order and per additional line or unit.
- →Shipping: the carrier's cost plus your margin.
- →Returns and extra jobs: labeling, assembling packs, photos.
How to measure it without Excel
The key is for each charge to come from a fact recorded in the warehouse: the pallet that was received, the order that was picked, the day the goods occupied the bin. If the warehouse is run with a system, the invoice comes out automatically from what has happened, at each client's rate.
So money does not slip away
- →Extra jobs are recorded on the spot, from the PDA.
- →Each client has their own rate, not a general one.
- →Review the draft before issuing.
Ubika bills each event at each client's rate and leaves a draft at month end for review. Software for 3PLs.
Keep reading
- How many warehouse operators do you actually need (without over-hiring or falling short)
- How to reduce picking errors in your warehouse
- Warehouse management software for small businesses and 3PLs in Spain: what each one does and when it fits
- How to count stock with a PDA: counting by bin, blind counts and approved differences
What Ubika does: warehouse management software · software for 3PLs · WMS for e-commerce