Transportation
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
- 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 tim
- Transport Lanes Origin region to destination region, by mode. The unit a rate is quoted on and the unit a spend analysis is do
- Freight Classes The NMFC scale. Density, stowability, handling and liability decide it, and it is the single biggest driver of
- Freight Tariffs A price agreement with a carrier. The rate basis is what lets one engine price parcel, LTL and truckload: thre
- Accessorial Charges What a carrier charges for beyond moving the goods. Half a freight bill is usually these, and an accrual that
- Freight Orders The instruction to a carrier: collect here, deliver there, these stops in this order. Tendered, accepted, refu
- Rate Shopping What came back when several carriers were asked. Kept rather than thrown away: "why did we ship this on the ex
- Routes The drawn line and the plan behind it. Sequencing the stops is nearest-neighbour with time windows pulling a s
- Tracking Events What the carrier told us, when. The evidence behind an on-time-delivery figure, normalized so a dashboard does
- Carrier Scorecard Computed rather than typed: what each carrier moved, what it cost, how much of it arrived on time, and how oft
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