Cost awareness requires visibility—a 360-degree view of processes, structures, services, and suppliers. This is the only way to realistically evaluate prices and invest-ments. AUDI AG, a long-standing customer of Siemens Digital Logistics, entrusts this crucial task to a team of in-house transport plan-ners. But the automotive giant had reached the limits of what was possible with its current planning and analysis tool. The process of evaluating complex global trans-port chains in particular still involved a lot of manual steps, making it too prone to error, and it also relied on the insular knowledge of just a few people. Still other tools were needed to manage the various modes of transport and information on freight rates. A digital solution moved the premium carmaker into the fast lane.