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Case studies

What changed after the data got clear. Each story follows the same shape: the charge, the root cause, the fix, and the measured result.

Wasteful Spend · Scheduled Reporting

The Manifest Fix

A large building-products manufacturer used Wasteful Spend reporting to trace two of its costliest recurring parcel charges back to their causes — an unautomated manifest closeout, and a surcharge pattern that supported a focused review with UPS — and then eliminated most of them.

Building Products UPS Jan–Aug 2026
−95%
Duplicate & Missing PLD fees
−74%
Large Package Surcharges
Address Corrections Analysis App · Scheduled Reporting

The Address Fix

A large big-box retail and wholesale chain used Intelligent Logistics' Address Corrections Analysis App and Scheduled Reporting to find and fix the specific ship-to addresses driving its most repetitive parcel address-correction charges — bringing a multi-year cost trend down by more than 80%.

Big-Box Retail & Wholesale
−81%
Address Correction net charge, quarterly, earliest vs. most recent complete quarter on file
10 min/mo
Time spent reviewing and routing the monthly Corrected-Address ranking to fixes
Service Level Spend Analysis · Charge Analysis

The Ground Shift

A large industrial manufacturer relied on UPS Next Day Air and Second Day Air to keep replacement parts moving fast to its distributor network. Intelligent Logistics' Service Level Spend Analysis identified which of those shipments could move on UPS Ground at no cost to the delivery commitment — cutting the average cost per package sharply without slowing a single order.

Industrial Manufacturing UPS
−51%
UPS Next Day Air & Second Day Air package volume, Jan 2026 vs. Sept 2026
−35%
Average cost per package across all shipped volume, same period
Billed vs. Actual Dimension Validation · Shipping Charge Corrections

The Correction Loop

A large national telecom shipper used Intelligent Logistics to compare the weight and dimensions entered at shipment against what carriers ultimately billed — turning a recurring $8,500-a-week correction problem into a repeatable process that cut it by 69% in one year.

Telecommunications
−69%
Weekly weight & dimension correction costs, beginning vs. after one year
$5,900/wk
Reduction in weekly correction costs, sustained one year in
Delayed Packages Management · Shipment Status Monitoring · Scheduled Reporting

The Early Catch

A large healthcare distributor uses Intelligent Logistics' Delayed Packages Management and Scheduled Reporting to catch temperature-sensitive lab samples trending toward a missed delivery commitment — across every carrier it ships with, before a sample is unusable.

Healthcare & Lab Logistics Distribution Multi-carrier
251
Delayed, in-progress shipments surfaced in a single view (report snapshot)
Proof of Delivery & Tracking History Retention · Shipment Details View

The Audit Trail

A regional independent pharmacy uses Intelligent Logistics' Proof of Delivery and Tracking History Retention to answer Prescription Benefit Manager audit requests in minutes — pulling signed delivery confirmations straight from the shipment record, long after the carrier's own retention window has closed.

Independent Retail Pharmacy
Indefinite
Proof of Delivery and tracking history retention in Intelligent Logistics
Minutes
Time to locate and share a signed POD once a PBM audit request comes in
Days in Transit · Transit Time Analysis

The Missing Day

A global third-party logistics provider used Intelligent Logistics to measure transit time independently of carrier self-reporting — and found a specific lane and service level that had been quietly running a day longer than the rest of the network all along.

Third-Party Logistics
Network-Wide → Lane-Level
Granularity of transit-time visibility, down to a specific lane and service level
Reactive → Data-Backed
Carrier conversations grounded in independent transit data, not isolated complaints
Carrier Invoice Import · Charge Analysis

The Single Source

A growing retail shipper managing parcel volume across multiple carriers used Intelligent Logistics to replace hours of manual invoice reconciliation each month with one standardized report — turning scattered carrier data into shipping intelligence the finance and logistics teams could actually trust.

Retail / E-commerce
Fragmented → Standardized
View of shipping cost and volume across every carrier account
Reactive → Real-Time
Access to shipping cost, volume, and performance intelligence
Rating in Transit · Carrier Invoice Import

The Early Estimate

A regional electrical and industrial distributor used Intelligent Logistics to see what a shipment would cost before the carrier ever issued an invoice — replacing a finance process built around waiting for the bill with one built around knowing ahead of time.

Electrical & Industrial Distribution
Guesswork → Anticipated
Month-end freight accrual against the appropriate cost center
Estimated → Reconciled
Drop-shipped vendor freight moving under the distributor's own carrier accounts
Exception Management · Shipment Status Monitoring

The Exception Queue

A well-known eyewear manufacturer used Intelligent Logistics to replace manual scanning of shipment lists for problems with a queue that surfaces exceptions on its own — so customer service could reach out before the customer had to call in.

Eyewear Manufacturing
Reactive → Proactive
Customer service outreach on delayed or at-risk shipments
Unsorted → Understood
Visibility into the nature and severity of each open exception
Inbound Shipment Visibility · Scheduled Delivery Visibility

The Blind Dock

A large national clothing retailer used Intelligent Logistics to see inbound shipments before they hit the receiving dock — turning a distribution center that found out what was arriving only when the truck showed up into one that plans around it.

Retail / Apparel
Reactive → Planned
Labor and dock-space scheduling around expected arrivals
Delayed Discovery → Early Flag
Awareness of inbound delays, before they become a downstream problem
Customer Success and Carrier Onboarding Support · Carrier Account Configuration

The Day-One View

A large national bank used Intelligent Logistics to get operational shipping visibility from day one — without the ERP or systems integration project that this kind of visibility usually requires first.

Banking / Financial Services
Months → Day One
Time from agreement to operational shipping visibility
Internal Systems Only → Full Carrier Activity
Coverage of shipments moving under the bank's carrier accounts

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