With the new NMFC changes coming in July, we need the ability to easily report on dimensions, cube, and density to identify areas for improvement with our clients. This data is frequently only provided on the W&I and not on the invoice, BOL or POD.
We need a way to scrape this information from the documents provided to:
Easily audit that the correct density based class has been calculated.
Report on average dimensions by customer to inform planning improvements either in the application or ideally via the get audit results API.
Hi @Guest thank you for submitting this idea- the challenge we've seen in trying to do this is we rarely see the exact same Line Items and Descriptions from the TMS on the Carriers' documents, even when EDI is used it can be difficult to match. Additionally, we can't just update the load's Total Weight, we have to update the individual Line Items (and the TMS sums them up)
We've seen the need to "fuzzy match" the items on the W&I / BOL to what was originally received so we can attempt to update them accordingly, and if we can't we would have to throw an exception, but we just see this being something that really throws off the workflow and there's a good question as to whether it's worth it.