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Parcel Auditing Isn’t Just for the Big Guys Anymore

By Hannah Testani

For years, parcel auditing carried an implicit prerequisite: you had to be big enough to justify it. The conventional wisdom among smaller shippers went something like this — auditing requires a dedicated logistics team, significant IT resources to integrate data feeds, and enough shipping volume to make the economics work. If you didn’t have all three, you left it alone and assumed your carrier invoices were close enough to correct.

That assumption is no longer accurate.

Three Parcel Shipments that Changed the World

Members of the general public give little, if any, thought as to how it is that a parcel arrives on their doorstep or how they can go to a nearby store and purchase a product manufactured in a distant country. The readers of PARCEL know well that there are many “moving parts” involving transportation and logistics that allow this to happen. They also know that there is usually one or more bills of lading issued along the way from origin to destination.

Here’s a peek at one of the most historic ones.

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