How many times does one shipment get typed?
Three inputs, one yearly figure for the hours lost to re-entry. Built for 3PLs and brokerages. No email required.
What you get
4 things that decide this
- 01A yearly hours figure for shipment data entered more than once across your systems.
- 02A per-load view of the admin cost hiding inside every tender-to-invoice cycle.
- 03It will not tell you which system to buy. It tells you what the gaps between them cost.
- 04If your systems already talk, the number will be small. That is a pass, not a failure.
How it works
The Re-Keying Cost Calculator takes three inputs: loads per month, systems touched per load, and minutes per entry. The default of four systems per load reflects the pattern logistics software vendor Ramco describes: order details typed from email into dispatch, then billing, then tracking, then a spreadsheet.
The output is one sentence built from your inputs: roughly how many hours a year your team spends typing the same shipment again. Enter your own counts and the default disappears.
Re-entry costs more than time. Every extra touch is a chance for a wrong reference, a missed accessorial or an invoice dispute. The calculator counts the hours. The audit call counts the rest.
- EmailOrder arrives as text
- TMSTyped into dispatch
- BillingTyped again for the invoice
- SpreadsheetTyped once more for reporting
Each arrow is a person copying what a connection could carry.
Operations systems we run in production
Trace one load with an engineer
We map every manual touch from tender to invoice. The call is free and the map is yours.
Questions, answered
01We already have a TMS. Does this still apply?+
Usually, yes. The cost sits in the gaps between the TMS and everything else: email intake, billing, carrier updates and client reports. The calculator counts entries, wherever they happen.
02Where does the four-systems default come from?+
From the intake pattern Ramco documents in logistics operations. It is a starting point. Count your own touches on one load and use that instead.
03Is anything stored?+
No. No email, no saved data. The result is for you.
