Abstract:
The most accurate and practical concept on calculating the Costs-To-Serve (CTS) can be implemented by apportioning the total capital or expenditures to fulfill all services to each individual customer. Importantly, the information from this implementation would generate significant benefits to those, who are in the managerial positions in the organization, on decision making process and controlling the budget. Moreover, it can also assist them to minimize the avoidable expenditures for fulfillment the services to each individual customer.The concept of Activity-Based Costing Management (ABC/M) is, therefore, introduced to be used as a key tool when analyzing Activity-Based Management. However, the Activity-Based Costing Management still has to apply Activity-Based Costing (ABC) when implementing the analysis by apportioning the total capital or expenditures. Notably, the costs of capital or expenditures are necessarily required to be accurate or at least it should be very close to the actual figures. As a result, successful implementation would offer enormous advantages to those managers when making decisions, planning, controlling and minimizing the expenditures. The implementation of analyzing Activity-Based Costing is a process to find out the actual capital per one unit product only inasmuch as the Activity-Based Costing Management is used to estimate the capital of production process. The Activity-Based Costing Management is a starting point for this project only. The research was conducted by investigating a marine freight forwarding business which has FCL and LCL. There are various types of services to be chosen for the customers in order to meet their demands, in particular, a regular service or an express service. There was also an investigation in the procession of customer service activities that cause the relevant logistic activities. This investigation was conducted on the purpose of acquiring the information for analyzing Costs-To-Serve on each single logistic activity.