Logistics

Logistics Cost Analysis Agent

By the time the cost of the route is known, the expensive tariff has long since carried on running.

Analyses transport and warehousing costs from your own data.

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Public administration

Four processes that take up the most time today

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU or on-premises

Delivered together with

STACKIT Sovereign hosting in Germany, single-tenant from the first user.
Rödl Legal, tax and compliance expertise for legally sound deployment.
4P Consulting Advisory and implementation for the public sector, starting with the AI readiness assessment.

The costs of a route sit in two systems and are never brought together.

Freight costs sit in the TMS, staff and warehousing costs in the ERP. For the monthly report, controlling exports data from both systems and lines it up in a spreadsheet. Because cost centres and shipment numbers are named differently in the two exports, the matching has to be redone by hand every month.

2source systemsFreight costs come from the TMS, staff and warehousing costs from the ERP.
12cost centresFour sites each run three cost centres, named differently in the two exports.
3 daysmanual workThat is how long it takes until the exports line up and the monthly report is ready.
4 weeksdelayThat is how late the analysis flags the expensive tariff, which keeps running in the meantime.

If you have these four figures side by side on the same day rather than four weeks later, you capture the 10 to 15% cost savings while the tariffs are still running.

The 10 to 15% cost saving is this agent's headline figure. The twelve cost centres across four sites and the three days of manual work before the monthly report are a typical set-up in logistics controlling, not a measured value.

Three steps through the process.

The agent adds up freight, staff and warehousing costs per shipment and site and names the drivers; decisions on tariffs and sites rest with executive management.

Match both exports to the same cost centres

The agent reads the cost lines from TMS and ERP and assigns each one to a cost centre and a shipment. It lists each line it cannot assign.

Analysis KA-0726-Nord, 18,412 cost lines assigned, 96 without a cost centre

Isolate the cost drivers per site

The agent sets the cost per shipment for all four sites side by side. It shows the items that deviate most from the previous month, with amount and origin.

North site: 4.18 euros per shipment above the average, driver: empty runs

Enter the cost drivers in the monthly report

The agent enters the drivers in the monthly report with amount, cost centre and source system. For two tariff options it sets out the calculated scenarios alongside.

kostentreiber_juli-2026_region-nord.pdf, 6 drivers, 2 scenarios

What the agent does not do.

It does not decide on tariff changes or site closures.

It presents the calculated scenarios with the assumptions behind them. Executive management signs off the decision; controlling approves the figures it rests on.

It does not judge whether a cost centre is correctly posted.

It shows that the North region's empty runs are booked to two cost centres. Whether that matches the company's posting logic is for accounting to settle.

It cannot see costs that only appear in the year-end accruals.

Recalculated toll shares and carrier bonuses are missing from the July report. They are included in the analysis as soon as they are posted in the ERP.

Connected systems

  • Transport management system
  • ERP
  • warehouse management system

Operations

  • Deployment modelEU cloud or private cloud
  • Data processingGDPR-compliant, no model training on your data
  • Responsible teamsControlling, management

The questions that come up before the first meeting.

How quickly is the Logistics Cost Analysis Agent ready to use?

A pilot typically runs on your own data within 4 to 6 weeks. The agent connects to your existing systems rather than running as a separate, parallel environment.

Where is the data processed?

EU cloud or private cloud. Processing is GDPR-compliant and models are never trained on your data. Details in the Trust Center.

Where does the figure “10 to 15% cost savings” come from?

It is based on experience from comparable projects and process benchmarks, not a commitment. We work out the realistic effect for your organisation during the assessment before the pilot.

Related agents.

Intake review, case 2026/04711

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