The Cost monitoring dashboard helps you answer three questions, one per page:
Cost monitoring: how much do we spend, on which lanes, modes and carriers, and where will the year end?
Cost efficiency: how much do we pay per tonne-kilometre, and how fast are shipments delivered?
Normalized price dynamics: how does our price develop over time for comparable shipments?
Switch between the pages with the tabs under the page title. All amounts are in Swedish kronor (SEK).
The header: filters, period and data freshness
Filters
The filters at the top right apply to the whole page:
Transport mode: sea, air, road or intermodal.
Site: your sites in vChain ONE.
Lane (Cost efficiency page only): type part of a lane and press Enter. For example, -SE shows shipments into Sweden and SE- shipments out of Sweden.
To use a filter:
Click it to open the list.
Type in Search to find a value quickly.
Tick one or more values.
All means no filter is applied.
Period
The Period card sets the time window, for example “In the last 12 months”. Click it to choose another window: a number and a unit (days, weeks, months, years), counted back from today.
Some charts always show the current calendar year instead, for example the top lanes year to date and the forecast. Their subtitles say “Period not applied”, so you always know which time window a chart uses.
Data as of
Data as of shows when your data was last updated. Data is updated several times a day during working hours.
Page 1: Cost monitoring
Key figures
Shipments: shipments in the selected period.
Transport cost (SEK): the total transport cost of those shipments.
Weight (kg): their total weight.
Charts
Top 10 lanes by transport cost, year to date (SEK)
Your ten most expensive lanes, from pickup country to delivery country.
Covers the current calendar year, so the Period filter does not change it.
Share of transport cost by transport mode (%)
How each month’s cost splits across transport modes.
A growing air band means a larger part of your money goes to air freight.
Monthly transport cost vs forecast, current year (SEK)
Navy columns are the actual cost per month.
The orange dashed line is the forecast to the end of the year.
The buttons above the chart switch the view:
Current year: January to December of this year. The Period filter is not applied.
Selected period: the months of the Period filter.
Click the ⓘ icon for an explanation of the forecast.
Monthly transport cost by carrier (SEK)
Your six carriers with the highest cost in the period; all others are grouped as Other.
The buttons above the chart switch the view:
By month: cost per month.
Share: each carrier’s share of the month.
Page 2: Cost efficiency
This page looks at price per km-ton: the transport cost divided by distance × weight. It shows what it costs to move one tonne one kilometre, so lanes and modes of different size can be compared fairly.
Lanes by transport cost, year to date (SEK)
Your lanes at city level, from pickup city to delivery city, with cost and weight.
Most expensive first; covers the current calendar year.
Scroll inside the table to see more. The Total row sums all lanes.
Transport cost (SEK) by transport mode
The share of cost per mode in the period.
Price per km-ton vs distance by lane (SEK)
One dot per lane and transport mode. The dot’s size shows the lane’s transport cost.
Dots high up are expensive per tonne-kilometre. Large dots high up are the lanes most worth reviewing.
To zoom in, drag the sliders on the axes.
Price per km-ton by month and transport mode (SEK)
How your price per tonne-kilometre develops per mode.
Platform fees are excluded, so the line shows the freight price only.
Delivery speed by month and transport mode (km/h)
Total kilometres divided by total transit hours, per mode and month.
A falling line means shipments took longer for the same distance.
Page 3: Normalized price dynamics
Small shipments always cost more per tonne-kilometre than large ones. This page compares like with like by splitting shipments into weight groups.
Transport cost (SEK) by lane
Starts with your total transport cost, split by lane.
Click + next to a lane to break it down further by transport mode, carrier or weight group.
Keep expanding to find exactly where the cost comes from. Click × next to a level’s title to remove it.
Price per km-ton by month, weight group and transport mode (SEK)
One panel per transport mode: sea, air, road, intermodal.
One line per weight group, from Below 2 kg to Over 10000 kg.
The scale is logarithmic, so very different price levels fit on one chart.
Platform fees are excluded.
A flat line means a stable price for that size of shipment. A rising line means you pay more for the same kind of shipment.
Click to explore
Every chart on a page is linked:
Click a bar, a slice, a dot or a table row to filter the rest of the page to it.
To select several items, hold Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac) and click.
To clear the selection, click the selected item again or click an empty area of the chart.
Tips
Hover over any bar, line, dot or row to see exact values.
Large numbers are shortened: K = thousand, M = million.
Use price per km-ton to compare carriers or lanes, not total cost. A lane can be expensive simply because you ship a lot on it.
Frequently asked questions
Why doesn’t a chart change when I change the Period?
Some charts always show the current calendar year: the top lanes, the lanes table and the forecast in Current year mode. Their subtitles say “Period not applied” or “year to date”.
Which shipments have a transport cost?
Only shipments with a price in vChain ONE. Shipments without a price are counted in Shipments and Weight, but add nothing to the cost.
What are platform fees, and why are they excluded?
Platform fees are vChain service fees, not freight charges. They are excluded from price per km-ton so that the figure reflects what carriers charge you.
Why is the price per km-ton so high for small shipments?
A parcel of a few kilograms has a minimum charge. Spread over very little weight, that gives a high price per tonne-kilometre. Compare shipments within the same weight group, as on the Normalized price dynamics page.
How often is the data updated?
Several times a day during working hours. The time of the last update is always shown in Data as of.