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Efficiently Move Forward with Transportation Cost Reduction

No matter your industry, transportation costs are a big component of your supply chain and logistics spend. Most research suggests transportation costs represent northward of 50% of the entire budget. And these costs are typically passed onto the customer. Because of the importance of your transportation costs, it’s always beneficial to strategize and use transportation […]

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Understanding Freight Classifications

Freight / Trans Audit

Whether you ship a little or a lot, it’s important for you to have a clear understanding of freight classification and what it entails. And it’s no small task to consistently classify freight in a way that is accurate, cost-savvy, and specific to your contracts and carrier tariffs. However, it’s possible— and understanding freight classification

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How Can Trans Audit’s Freight Invoice Post Audit Help Identify Errors and Maximize Savings?

Post Audit / Trans Audit

In the most simple sense, a freight bill post-payment audit is the process of reviewing and validating your freight carrier’s invoices. It’s an extremely tedious and careful process where an outsourced party is tasked with verifying the accuracy of bills and payment thereof. The overarching goal of a freight bill post audit is to determine

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Don’t Just Post Audit – Trans Audit: Simple. Swift. Straightforward.

Post Audit / Trans Audit

Performing a freight invoice post audit can be tedious, time-consuming, and confusing. Fortunately, you don’t have to! At Trans Audit, we specialize in delivering money-saving and producing transportation post audit services. Through our proprietary systems and processes, we establish recurring feeds of information, inclusive of freight invoices, bills of lading, rates, contracts, and payment details

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Freight Bill vs Bill Of Lading: The Difference and Why It Matters

Freight Bill / Trans Audit

Do you make it a best practice to keep the freight invoice and bill of lading on file? Whether electronic or an image of a paper document, both will assist in ensuring the accuracy of a shipping transaction, especially if that transaction is ever questioned financially or legally. For most shippers, there is confusion on

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Actionable Tips to Improve & Get Carrier Relations Right!

Carriers / Trans Audit

Managing relationships — any relationship — takes time, commitment, and a shared vision of success. And managing carrier relations is no different. However, with carrier relationships, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Carrier relations are a very important relationship that is well worth the time investment. Strong partnerships between you and the carrier are vital for

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