RateServer® and TRANSPay®

RateServer® a powerful multi-mode freight contract management and freight cost reporting software recently enhanced to accurately calculate railroad mileage based fuel surcharges.

RateServer® supports multi-mode freight rates - rail, truck, LTL, and marine. The system allows freight negotiators to maintain accurate freight contracts and offers a powerful rating engine that calculates freight costs down to the penny. RateServer® accrues freight costs on every shipment for further analysis and freight payment via TRANSPay®. 

Bourque Logistics has enhanced functionality of RateServer®/TRANSPay® to ensure logistics professionals are equipped to efficiently manage the railroad’s new mileage based fuel surcharge (MBFSC) requirements.  New functionality includes accurate fuel surcharge scales with mileage capabilities and percent calculations, plus line-item billing and auto payment.

RateServer® Feature Benefits:

• Enhanced to provide accurate fuel surcharge scales with mileage capabilities and percent calculations, plus reliable, line-item billing and auto pay freight payment options.
• Provides tools to easily manage the most complex freight contracts, their modification, extension, or escalation.
• Calculates line-haul rates based on carrier, origin, destination, product or commodity class, equipment type, equipment owner, origin/delivering carrier, prepaid/collect, and other parameters.
• Handles all types of assessorial charges and their pricing structure including rebates and discounts, standard and exception excess charges, fuel surcharges, rail switch charges, and truck stop-off charges.
• Freight cost accruals from shipments are stored in their distinct charge-type components for direct payment or future analysis.
• Handles any scale for fixed, per unit, per excess, or cumulative rates.
• Provides support for point-to-point, mileage, and quantity breaks.
• Handles railroad tariffs and complex agricultural rates such as capacity and unit trains.
• Handles all permutations of Rule 11 freight calculations.
• Versatile definition of rate types and units of measure allow for customized rate scales.
• Freight cost reporting by mode, carrier, traffic lane, commodity, and customer including cost-per-ton-mile reports.
• What-if analysis for least-cost moves.
• Integrates with ERP systems to provide freight costs on demand for shipment cost estimates, freight-add invoicing, and carrier payment.

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TRANSPay® provides freight payment processing – match-pay as well as auto-pay.

TRANSPay® optimizes cash flow management and reduces manual efforts related to freight payments. By calculating the best time for disbursement of funds, TRANSPay® allows you to take advantage of early payment terms, pay freight invoices on time, and avoid all penalties.

The new MBFSC processes impact accounts payable processes.  TRANSPay® allows for reliable, line-item billing and auto-pay freight payment options to manage these new processes.

TRANSPay® Feature Benefits: 

• MBFSC line-item billing and auto-pay freight payment options.
• Auto-pay freight for all carriers.
• Match-pay freight for all carriers.
• Match freight invoices to freight accruals based on variances set by you.
• Automatically create payment requests from freight accruals for on-time processing of invoices by A/P.
• Streamline freight payment reconciliation.
• Interface with A/P systems in SAP and JDE to calculate and age freight accruals and to create payment requests for disbursement.
• Allocate freight costs to appropriate business unit.
• Record disbursement details such as check number, mail date, etc.
• Monitor multi-mode shipments for volume commitments and rebates.
• Optimization cash flow.
• Processes payment transactions for all transit modes provided by RateServer®.

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Contact us at sales@railtrac.com or 281-362-1513.