About Sell / Charge Contracts

Overview

A Sell Contract (or Charge Contract) represents an agreement between ProTrans and a customer regarding the amount of money charged for a given service. ProTrans secures Buy Contracts (or Cost Contracts) with suppliers such as carriers, document processing groups, etc. to perform services on a customer's behalf. The difference between a Sell Contract (or Charge Contract) and a Buy Contract (or Cost Contract) represents income for ProTrans.

The Jaguar Contract Management System acts as an electronic repository for all of these agreements. Jaguar and Optimiz work together to automate the process of looking up, copying, calculating, and verifying cost / buy rate data.

How Jaguar and Optimiz Integrate

When a shipment is created either by a user or automated process, Optimiz passes certain data to the Jaguar Contract Management system to determine if there is a matching contract. If there is a matching contract, the rate data is passed back to Optimiz. These data are then applied to the shipment.

Who is Responsible for Entering in Sell / Charge Contracts?

There are two groups responsible for entering and maintaining Sell / Charge Contracts in the Jaguar Contract Management System:

• Engineering and Analysis group - Enters in Sell / Charge Contracts when new business is acquired.
• Accounts Receivable group - Updates existing Sell / Charge Contracts when details need to be updated.

What Happens if there are No Sell / Charge Contracts?

If there are no matching Sell / Charge Contracts when Optimiz finishes searching, the user adding the shipment will be required to obtain the data from another source and manually provide the data.