Material Management in Freight Forwarding business

Hi Experts,
How we manage materials in freight forwarding business? ( As a forwarding agent, if we are moving containers from one location to other & charging Customers for the Service provided )
My doubts / Que :-
1. In this 3PL process, multiple parties are involved
( e.g Company A - Picks up the goods from Customers Factory by providing their trucks till nearest Port
Company B - Shipping Company will deliver the Containers to destination port
Company C - Collects the Goods & delivers at designated location by providing their trucks.
How will monitor the complete process in our SAP system? As multiple PO will be created for Company A, B & C? & will settle their invoices after completion of their service. But for our Customer will be charging single invoice based on all these cost incurred.
2. Do we have to manage all these materials in our SAP system, if we are also providing warehousing solution to our Customer? As in this case, the inventory is our Customers asset. Do we have to valuate this material??
Could you please provide your valuable comments.
Regards,
Julie

Hi,
Your requirement will be fulfilled using transportation management. Based on the customer order and delivery, you have to pack the materials and this will be adjusted thrugh shipment by loading and shipment.
Delivery components will be seggregated accordingly and charged to the customer.
You can get the different invoices from suppliers.
One invoice to the customer which includes shipment cost.
Regards
Gowri Sankar

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