AI will not fix freight invoicing if it is trained on invoices that are still wrong.
Most models are being pointed at PDFs assembled after the fact — misapplied rates, mystery accessorial charges, reweighs, duplicates. Industry error rates are still in the mid-single to mid-teens. That is not a dataset. It is a dispute stream.
Garbage in does not become strategy out. It becomes confident nonsense at scale.
Freight Invoice Truth (FIT) is a different object: one shared commercial record, governed by a smart freight contract, updated by live events, complete at delivery. Then AI can forecast, allocate, and settle against numbers finance can actually post.
Control beats recovery. Truth beats inference.
Full article: Freight Invoice Truth: The Data Layer AI Actually Needs
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Interesting back in 1990’s wrote about potential logistics impact of quantum teleportation in which the teleported item was destroyed during process with a precise replica generated at other end of teleportation. As you can imagine the impact on logistics costs, inventories and lead times would be huge!
Not sure how or if this breakthrough relates but my recent AI inquiries on teleportation and related molecular manufacturing said the field was still decades from success…
This could become a significant step forward in quantum mechanics & computing. Let's see.
Supercurrent enables the reading of quantum information without destroying it.
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Dug out my original article published in the @CSCMP Supply Chain Quarterly in the early 1990’s
My friend and former colleague @BrianSolis has been pressing a pointed question that cuts across every industry experimenting with AI: Are you building the future or optimizing the past?
My friend and former colleague @TheBrianSolis has been pressing a pointed question that cuts across every industry experimenting with AI: Are you building the future or optimizing the past?
WOW it’s almost been 50 years since
there’s been a fully designed and built in America transformer! The comeback continues…
Accuracy is worth much more than any extra effort required to provide accurate invoices!
Most carriers don’t think of invoice accuracy as a strategic priority.
They should.
Because invoice accuracy isn’t a back-office issue—it’s a cash flow issue, a margin issue, and a growth issue.
Top Ten Reasons Carriers Should Care About Accurate Invoicing
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YES @briansolis! This is especially true when your attention and experience are also both in logistics! 🙂
I don't remember saying this, but I like it!
“The real currency of the future is attention and experience. Everything else is just logistics.”
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My friend and former colleague @TheBrianSolis has been pressing a pointed question that cuts across every industry experimenting with AI: Are you building the future or optimizing the past?
BIG news in the ecommerce fulfillment and delivery world today with Stord acquiring AMS Fulfillment in their largest deal yet! Cheers!
From PR Newswire:
Stord Acquires AMS Fulfillment, Enhancing Its Market-Leading Scale and Network Coverage
The company's largest acquisition to date adds over 10 million orders annually as Stord accelerates investment in its network, applied AI, and robotics.
Stord, the physical intelligence layer for independent commerce, today announced it has acquired AMS Fulfillment, a third-party logistics provider that processes more than 10 million orders per year for leading premium beauty, wellness, and high-velocity direct-to-consumer brands. The deal is Stord's largest acquisition to date, adding over 1 million square feet across key East and West Coast hubs, including the Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Philadelphia metro areas, and bringing millions of annual orders onto Stord's platform. Stord's global network now spans more than 100 locations.
The acquisition is the latest milestone in a year of significant growth for Stord. The company secured a $400 million credit facility led by Citi in October, following a $250 million Series F in May at a $3 billion valuation. With the Series F, Stord launched Stord Labs, its dedicated robotics deployment arm and data foundry.
Stord has grown 10x over the past four years. It processes over $15 billion in GMV annually for more than 1,000 brands and reaches roughly one in four U.S. households. Stord's network generates more than 8 billion data points each year, which feed its AI and automation.
"In modern commerce, what happens after checkout has become as important to consumer trust as the product itself," said Sean Henry, CEO and Co-Founder of Stord. "We have spent a decade building the leading fulfillment network and end-to-end commerce platform, leveling the playing field for brands with Prime-like speed and reliability. This year, Stord has added the scale, leadership, network infrastructure, capital, and technology to extend that experience. AMS further accelerates our scale, while bringing some of the most discerning brands in the industry onto our platform. In commerce, scale drives lower costs, faster speeds, and more trust with consumers—powering Stord's flywheel. This deal spins our flywheel even faster, and we are entering peak shipping season with more capabilities, intelligence, and momentum than at any point in our history."
"Premium brands have always understood that fulfillment is part of the product, and AMS was built to honor that," said Greg Morello, Chief Executive Officer of AMS Fulfillment. "Stord shares that conviction and brings the network, intelligence, technology, automation, and investment to deliver it at a level few to nobody in the industry can match. Our customers get everything that made AMS great, now backed by the scale and technology to take it further."
Sharing this article to summarize insights into these large supply chains and how they plan to get even bigger and more efficient! Cheers!
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