LoadProof Video Testimonial – Peter Sophiea, NJOY



So, I mean, you know what it would take. Right? Just thinking, you know, as a solution provider, my job is to do everything possible to help you guys get the most money. Right? What would it take? Hey, carrier, can you take photos and upload them to our cloud? Right? Can you guys ask your carriers to do that? You know, what are they going to say? I would imagine, and I don’t know this—this is pure speculation—you’ll get pushback from carriers. The drivers are very in-and-out folks; they want to load as quickly as possible and get back on the road to their next stop.

I think, in an ideal situation, I would love for my carriers to take those pictures. Even if there were charges, like, you know, let’s say something reasonable, I would see a ton of benefit in that if negotiated into my contracts. Particularly pictures at delivery, right? If I could do comparative pictures. But the other aspect you’re going to see is the pictures we have now are before the product is shrink-wrapped. If I have a bunch of shrink-wrap pictures at delivery, that really doesn’t do me any good.

I don’t know that a carrier is going to wait around for the customer to unwrap everything. There’s that potential too, so there may be some roadblocks to this. But if I could get unwrapped pictures for comparison, that would immediately eliminate the carrier as a potential…

Author:
Puga Sankara
About:
Puga Sankara is the co-founder of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator Wearables have been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 50 million boxes. Users love them for the lightweight, easy-to-use soft overlay keyboard and video chatting ability, data collection ability etc. Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 17 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at [email protected] or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com.
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