Group Chart of Accounts & Consolidation — Logistics

Logistics groups carry structural complexity that generic ERPs were never designed for. Multiple legal entities, mixed fleet ownership, cross-border flows, fuel and toll cost allocation, customer-specific contract terms, sub-contracted capacity. The accounting works at entity level. The commercial view doesn’t.

The CFO can answer “is the group profitable?” and “is this entity profitable?” but can’t cleanly answer “is this route profitable?” or “is this customer profitable across the entities that serve them?” — without manual work that takes days and that nobody fully trusts.

Meanwhile group consolidation runs on the old structure, the close drags, and intercompany flows between operating entities are reconciled by hand.

A unified group chart of accounts purpose-built for transport economics, with the dimensional tagging required to read the business by every angle that matters.

Every transaction is tagged for entity, country, business line, route, fleet asset, customer, and contract. The structure satisfies statutory accounting in each jurisdiction while producing the commercial cuts the operations team and the CFO need.

On top, we build the consolidation layer — intercompany elimination, FX treatment, minority handling — and the reporting layer that turns the data into route P&Ls, fleet utilisation reports, customer profitability, and the group view simultaneously.

Where the existing ERP can be made to support the new structure, we configure it. Where it can’t, we build an intermediate layer that takes the ERP’s output and produces the views the business needs.

A group close that runs materially faster. Recent work has cut close cycles by around 40%.

True profitability visibility — by route, by truck, by customer, by entity, and at group level. Loss-making routes stop hiding inside profitable averages. Pricing conversations stop being instinctive and start being evidenced.

A finance structure that supports growth. New entities, new countries, and new fleet investment can be absorbed without rebuilding the chart of accounts.

Audit and tax positions hold cleanly across jurisdictions, because the statutory layer wasn’t compromised to deliver the commercial layer — both run from the same data.