A leading pharmaceutical company resolves critical risks around the generation and management of its transportation bills with Maventic

Maventic
Posted on Feb 09 , 2022

A leading pharmaceutical company resolves critical risks around the generation and management of its transportation bills with Maventic

About Client

The client is an Indian pharmaceutical company with 19 manufacturing facilities in the country that sell pharmaceutical generics, formulations, and nutraceuticals globally.

Business Scenario

A waybill is a receipt or a document issued by a carrier giving details and instructions relating to the shipment of a consignment of goods, and the details include the name of the consignor, consignee, the point of origin of the consignment, its destination, and route. An Electronic Way Bill (E-Way Bill) is a compliance mechanism wherein, through a digital interface, the person causing the movement of goods uploads the relevant information before the commencement of the movement of goods and generates an e-way bill on the GST portal.

Before partnering with Maventic, the client relied on manual processes to upload information onto the GST portal to generate its e-way bills.

Challenges

Owing to the scale of the business, the client needed to create many e-way bills daily. This process presented the following challenges:

  • Keeping a large team dedicated to handling these manual business processes was expensive.
  • The Government imposed heavy fines in case of any errors in the e-way bills.
  • Manual processes were error-prone.
  • Lack of automation severely impacted productivity.

Solution

The client decided that the best course of action was to streamline how it was uploading information onto the GST portal for generating e-way bills by integrating the portal with its SAP system.

After evaluating a few SAP e-way bill partners, they selected Maventic’s product called mavenTax for this purpose. The built-in functionalities of mavenTax enabled the client to quickly generate and modify e-way bills from their SAP system without requiring manual interventions.

mavenTax collects the requisite information from the client’s SAP system as soon as an invoice is generated and automatically sends it to the GST portal using an API. It then subsequently collects the e-way bill generated by the portal and stores it back in the SAP system. This entire process is entirely real-time.

The architecture used here involved directly integrating the IRP with the SAP ERP.

Benefits

With mavenTax, the client can now perform the below functions on their SAP system without needing to log into the GST portal:

  • Perform vehicle updation in case of a vehicle breakdown.
  • Extend an e-way bill if a trip is unlikely to be completed in the initially stipulated time.
  • Perform transporter updation in case the transporter is replaced during a trip.
  • Perform cancellations of e-way bills.
  • Print e-way bills.