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Kuebix NetSuite ERP Integration and Freight Pay and Audit Deployment

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) Functional Applications - Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Inventory Management Supply Chain Visibility
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Pioneer Valley Books was facing a challenge with their previous process which was highly manual and didn’t allow for rating with multiple carriers. Their freight spend was only understood on a macro level and they couldn’t audit every invoice for discrepancies due to time constraints. The company was leveraging stand-alone shipping apps, rate aggregators tied to specific carriers, and map-based platforms intermittently. This meant the logistics team at Pioneer Valley Books needed to copy a lot of data back and forth manually, wasting time and limiting the amount of rate comparison possible. As the company’s LTL and parcel freight began to expand rapidly, their home-grown solution wasn’t flexible enough for their long-term needs. Read More
About Customer	Pioneer Valley Books is a company that offers a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction books and other resources for Reading Recovery, primary classroom, and literacy teachers at affordable prices. Their mission is to provide engaging stories and teaching materials that help children to develop strong literacy skills and a love of reading. Their operations are based in Northampton, Massachusetts with additional shipping and storage in nearby Florence, MA. The company ships domestically and internationally, and like many organizations, has considerable freight spend to manage efficiently in order to keep costs down and value to customers high. Read More
Solution	Pioneer Valley Books implemented Kuebix TMS as their one source for domestic shipping as well as an integration between NetSuite and Kuebix and automated Freight Pay and Audit functionality. The logistics team at Pioneer Valley Books quickly realized that LTL providers were willing to competitively bid against parcel carriers for their freight. In order to efficiently compare rates across multiple carriers and modes for each shipment, Pioneer Valley Books needed a single system from which to operate. The answer came in the form of Kuebix in May of 2018. Soon after Pioneer Valley Books implemented Kuebix TMS as their transportation management solution, their Warehouse Manager rapidly began adding carriers for rate comparison. They were able to have one carrier come in, and without blinking an eye, undercut the historically used carrier’s rates by 10% across the board. This would have been impossible without Kuebix, as Kuebix seamlessly connected with the carrier without a customized integration. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Functional Applications - Transportation Management Systems (TMS)

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Pioneer Valley Books was facing a challenge with their previous process which was highly manual and didn’t allow for rating with multiple carriers. Their freight spend was only understood on a macro level and they couldn’t audit every invoice for discrepancies due to time constraints. The company was leveraging stand-alone shipping apps, rate aggregators tied to specific carriers, and map-based platforms intermittently. This meant the logistics team at Pioneer Valley Books needed to copy a lot of data back and forth manually, wasting time and limiting the amount of rate comparison possible. As the company’s LTL and parcel freight began to expand rapidly, their home-grown solution wasn’t flexible enough for their long-term needs.

About Customer

Pioneer Valley Books is a company that offers a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction books and other resources for Reading Recovery, primary classroom, and literacy teachers at affordable prices. Their mission is to provide engaging stories and teaching materials that help children to develop strong literacy skills and a love of reading. Their operations are based in Northampton, Massachusetts with additional shipping and storage in nearby Florence, MA. The company ships domestically and internationally, and like many organizations, has considerable freight spend to manage efficiently in order to keep costs down and value to customers high.

Solution

Pioneer Valley Books implemented Kuebix TMS as their one source for domestic shipping as well as an integration between NetSuite and Kuebix and automated Freight Pay and Audit functionality. The logistics team at Pioneer Valley Books quickly realized that LTL providers were willing to competitively bid against parcel carriers for their freight. In order to efficiently compare rates across multiple carriers and modes for each shipment, Pioneer Valley Books needed a single system from which to operate. The answer came in the form of Kuebix in May of 2018. Soon after Pioneer Valley Books implemented Kuebix TMS as their transportation management solution, their Warehouse Manager rapidly began adding carriers for rate comparison. They were able to have one carrier come in, and without blinking an eye, undercut the historically used carrier’s rates by 10% across the board. This would have been impossible without Kuebix, as Kuebix seamlessly connected with the carrier without a customized integration.

Impact #1	Pioneer Valley Books’ order information is automatically populated from their ERP into the TMS. This ensures complete order accuracy, cuts down on order processing time, and creates a record of historical data.
Impact #2	The company can now leverage actionable analytics to see freight costs down to the SKU level.
Impact #3	Pioneer Valley Books has a complete understanding of their true landed cost of goods and can pivot time spent away from manual tasks and into value-add projects.

Impact #1

Pioneer Valley Books’ order information is automatically populated from their ERP into the TMS. This ensures complete order accuracy, cuts down on order processing time, and creates a record of historical data.

Impact #2

The company can now leverage actionable analytics to see freight costs down to the SKU level.

Impact #3

Pioneer Valley Books has a complete understanding of their true landed cost of goods and can pivot time spent away from manual tasks and into value-add projects.

Benefit #1	One carrier undercut the historically used carrier’s rates by 10% across the board.

Benefit #1

One carrier undercut the historically used carrier’s rates by 10% across the board.

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