Case Studies
Case Study # 1 for Manufacturing
An importer into Los Angeles had a warehouse in Los Angeles and in New York. Their primary
customer is a nationwide retailer. They direct ship to end users for this nationwide retailer.
Through the load optimization and adaptive automation programs, we found we could eliminate
the New York warehouse, and 3 positions in the Los Angeles warehouse.
They have a high claims ratio. We found that reducing the LTL miles also reduced the claims from
the LTL carriers moving their product several times from terminal to terminal.
Case Study # 2 for Software
For one customer we put a button on their site that pulls specific shipping data from the record
their customer is on, sends it to us in a PHP URL, takes them to our site, where we parse it,
populate our layout with that data and perform a rate calculation…
Their customer gets an instant rate quote without data entry. We can do the same thing with
entering the bill of lading.
Case Study # 3 for Trade Associations
In 2016 I’ve done 2 presentation for different trade associations.
As a result of the interest in the information presented I created the video how to get paid on a
claim. Each group sent it out to the benefit to all of their members, some who were not in
attendance.
Case Study # 4 Carrier View
We have a customer that is required to rate shop each shipment. In this process they have
accumulated several providers. Most of them have a different rate structure. We incorporated each
of these carriers, (some small warehouses with delivery vans) and their rate structures into their
rater and carrier choice for creating a shipment.
They used to send out mass emails, wait for the results, select the carrier, then send another email
to let the winning carrier know they have it and copy that to the warehouse so the warehouse can
create the bill of ladling. The warehouse would then create the shipment.
Now they log on look up the rate, select the carrier from the list based on rates and hit the create
bill of lading button. This saved them hours per day.