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Notes on processes, data and tools

What we keep seeing in orders, bills, price lists and monthly numbers. Short posts, with numbers, in plain words.

  1. Month-end numbers

    Why your month-end freight number is a guess

    Carrier bills arrive weeks after the goods ship, so finance has to guess. Why the guess is usually wrong, and how to replace it with a real number.

  2. Data and price lists

    What is a rate card, and why yours is three files

    A rate card is the price list you agreed with a carrier. What is in it, why it is so hard to use, and a ten-minute test for your own.

  3. Invoices and documents

    Why so many freight invoices are wrong

    A freight bill has many parts, and each part can be wrong. The five mistakes we see most, why nobody catches them, and a test you can do this week.

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