Manifest 2026 brings over 7,200 supply chain professionals to Las Vegas from February 9 to 11. With more than 400 speakers and an expo floor packed with technology vendors, the event can easily become three days of badge scanning rather than strategic relationship building. This guide helps mid-market shippers focus on what drives transportation spend […]
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Why do freight billing errors happen? Freight billing errors cost mid-market shippers 3% to 7% of total freight spend annually. According to Ardent Partners’ 2025 State of ePayables report, 22% of all invoices contain exceptions requiring manual intervention. The most common freight billing errors include incorrect weight or dimensional charges, duplicate invoices, missing discount codes,
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Manufacturers face five categories of hidden freight costs that generic audit programs miss entirely. These costs span invoice errors, inbound vendor markups, detention charges caused by plant operations, inaccurate freight allocation to products, and trapped working capital in payment cycles. Manufacturing accounts payable departments processing freight invoices manually experience error rates between 12% and 15%,
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Why is ocean freight tracking failing to protect your bottom line? Ocean freight tracking tells you where your container is. It rarely tells you what that location costs. With global schedule reliability hovering at just 51.5% according to Sea-Intelligence’s February 2025 Global Liner Performance Report, nearly half of all ocean shipments arrive late. The real
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