Freight Management
Who moves it, what they charge, the instruction they are given, and where it has got to.
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Carriers
Who moves it. A carrier IS a supplier as far as payables is concerned, so a freight invoice posts against the supplier record rather than into a second ledger.
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Carrier Services
What a carrier sells. "UPS" is not a service; "UPS 2nd Day Air" is, and it is the thing that has a transit time and a cutoff.
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Transport Lanes
Origin region to destination region, by mode. The unit a rate is quoted on and the unit a spend analysis is done on.
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Freight Classes
The NMFC scale. Density, stowability, handling and liability decide it, and it is the single biggest driver of an LTL price.
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Freight Tariffs
A price agreement with a carrier. The rate basis is what lets one engine price parcel, LTL and truckload: three different arithmetics, one lane comparison.
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Accessorial Charges
What a carrier charges for beyond moving the goods. Half a freight bill is usually these, and an accrual that ignores them is wrong by half.
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Freight Orders
The instruction to a carrier: collect here, deliver there, these stops in this order. Tendered, accepted, refused, offered to the next one down.
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Rate Shopping
What came back when several carriers were asked. Kept rather than thrown away: "why did we ship this on the expensive one" is a question somebody asks three weeks later.
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Routes
The drawn line and the plan behind it. Sequencing the stops is nearest-neighbour with time windows pulling a stop forward: crude, fast, and typically within a fifth of optimal on a delivery round.
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Tracking Events
What the carrier told us, when. The evidence behind an on-time-delivery figure, normalized so a dashboard does not have to know that UPS says "I" and FedEx says "IT".
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Carrier Scorecard
Computed rather than typed: what each carrier moved, what it cost, how much of it arrived on time, and how often their invoice was wrong.
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