Your Freight Documents are Running a Hidden Tab
Mid-market shippers and 3PLs processing $50M–$500M in annual freight spend are burning 12–16 FTEs and $700K–$1M per year just on document handling — and that's before unrecovered overcharges. Adjust the inputs below to see what it looks like at your volume.
Your Freight Operations
How many shipments does your organization process per year?
Include all modes — truckload, LTL, intermodal, and parcel. Each shipment generates a BOL, POD, rate confirmation, and carrier invoice.
1,000500,000+
50,000
What is the approximate fully loaded hourly cost of the people processing freight documents?
Consider salary, benefits, and overhead across AP, logistics operations, and carrier management teams.
$20/hr$100/hr
$55/hr
What is your organization's total annual freight spend?
Used to estimate recoverable overcharge leakage — the 1.5–3% of freight spend that systematic audit typically recovers before the 180-day dispute window closes.
Estimated Annual Cost of Manual Freight Document Processing
Based on your inputs, your current freight document workflow may be costing your organization approximately:
$0
Per Year
0
Total Docs
/ Year
/ Year
0
Est. FTEs
in Doc Processing
in Doc Processing
$0
Potential
Overcharge Recovery
Overcharge Recovery
Routine document processing labor
$0
Exception handling & dispute rework
$0
Unrecovered overcharge leakage
$0
Estimates use published benchmarks: 15 min avg. manual touch time per freight document (Tier2 Systems / APQC), 4 documents per shipment, 20% exception rate at 60 min each, and 2.25% overcharge leakage (midpoint of the 1.5–3% range cited by independent freight audit research). Actual results vary based on carrier mix and current audit maturity.
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