News in Brief TRW Automotive

(04/28/2008) TRW Automotive is targeting increased transparency and efficiency in the area of freight costs. By introducing the inet-logistics freight cost management software solution, automatic billing is carried out for transport services.

With 67,000 employees, TRW is the leading provider of active and passive vehicle safety within the global automotive environment. The company has a total of 200 plants and branches in 28 countries, of which 17 are in Germany.
 
From July 2008, the inet-logistics solution checks the freight costs more efficiently at the Gelsenkirchen works in Germany. The generation of continual transparency improves the data quality for the calculation and monitoring of the freight costs. Double billing, as well as the billing of unjustifiable additional costs, are prevented by checking the type and tariff of the transport and freight costs. Transport procurement is optimised on the basis of current and pan-European statistics. In addition to that, the automated freight cost check reduces the process costs.

All of this provides a uniform cost data basis for the Gelsenkirchen plant, which can also be applied at other plants. An extension to further plants in Germany and Europe is planned in the long term.