The New Paradigm: Podcast Interview with Data2Logistics' Harold B. Friedman

The senior vice president of global corporate development for Data2Logistics discusses evolution and expansion within the freight payment industry (Podcast: 5 minutes).

Harold B. Friedman has more than 40 years of experience in the freight business. Before joining Data2Logistics, he was the senior vice president of sales and marketing for CorPay Solutions, and a principal of CTI Logistics. He served as president of Chase Trans-Info and was previously employed by Chase Manhattan Bank as a divisional controller. He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Pace University; attended the Wharton School of Continuing Studies; and graduated with honors from the U.S. Army Transportation School. See article here...

Freight Bill Processor Data2Logistics Provides Companies with Shipping Savings Benefiting Their Growth

As organizations realize growth through international demand for their offerings, their inbound and outbound logistics expense is a supply chain component that expands rapidly as well. Global freight bill processor, auditor and advisor Data2Logistics is equipping companies to meet the challenge for this acceleration, providing bill payment and auditing services to achieve operational flexibility and freight cost savings, as companies’ resources are stretched to accommodate demands accompanying shipping volume increases. Data2Logistics’ services assist organization’s logistics, supply chain, operations, finance and accounting staff, providing information needed to control costs for all modes of transportation for companies who ship products domestically and internationally via LTL, TL, parcel, overnight express, ocean, air and rail carriers. Having a full service operation in Rotterdam, Netherlands since 2004 enables Data2Logistics to support rapidly expanding companies throughout the EMEA and APAC, with staff attuned to local cultures and unique business environments. See article here...

Data2Logistics Talks Hurricane Season Prep

As this year’s hurricane season begins, global freight bill processor and auditor Data2Logistics said it has begun preparing its customers for inbound and outbound shipping actions and changes around the expected hurricane and tropical storm activity. Data2Logistics is providing customers with information on carrier and route options that it believes will lead to uninterrupted shipments while preparing for supply chain changes and risk management. The company’s data mining and reporting... See article here...

MAILCOM Presents Freight Bill Processor Data2Logistics’ Friedman with Franklin Award

Global freight bill processor, auditor and advisor Data2Logistics announces that Harold B. Friedman, DLP, Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Development, was presented with the prestigious Franklin Award at the recently concluded MAILCOM 2012 Annual Global Convention. The Franklin Award honors leaders whose contributions maintain the value of mail and logistics communications. See article here...

Freight Bill Processor Data2Logistics’ Harold Friedman to Address MAILCOM 2012

Global freight bill processor, auditor and advisor Data2Logistics announces Harold B. Friedman, Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Development of Data2Logistics will be presenting four educational seminars during MAILCOM 2012, April 15 – 18 at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. Friedman, a 40-year active in the logistics and supply chain industries, will address issues affecting businesses’ shipping costs, and information access to reduce them, including: See article here...

Data Mining for Dollars

The more you know, the more you're aware you could be saving. And the deeper you dig, the richer the reward.
 
That's today's data mining capsulation of your realization: awareness of cost-saving options amid logistical obligations.
 
According to global trade group Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), fewer than 25% of organizations in North America and Europe are currently utilizing captured data as part of their business process. With high ease and low cost associated with utilization of their information, this unawareness is shocking. And costly.
 
Shippers - you're in prime position to benefit the most by data mining and assessing your electronically-captured billing records, by utilizing a freight bill processing provider, to realize and receive significant savings.
 
Whatever your volume, the more you know about your transportation options, throughout all modes, the easier it is to ship smarter and save. A freight bill processor is able to offer insight capable of saving you 5% - 15% annually on your transportation expenditures. See article here...

Data2Logistics Drives CARS for Faster Freight Bill Auditing

Global freight bill processor, auditor and advisor Data2Logistics announces the launch of their Claims & Audit Review System (CARS), improving information flow for shipping clients. The system invigorates the company’s money-saving freight bill auditing ability with enhanced speed, resulting in faster audit cycles. CARS’ functionality optimizes the presentation and navigation of shipment data requiring auditor review, caches client freight bill data and distributes the information contiguously to Data2Logistics auditors. The result streamlines a potentially time-intensive portion of Data2Logistics’ audit services. See article here...

The Business Value of Your Transportation Operation’s Worth

Classical assessment of an organization's business valuation doesn't often address fully the merits of efficient shipping functionality. It's often regulated to a profit/loss sheet line item. No slight intended; it's just that primary focus is elsewhere within a company's value evaluation. The transportation department's operational flow isn't highlighted in most company's summary.

From your experience, and our vantage of a freight bill processor, auditor and advisor provider service, we know the assets are real. Your department's a to-market lifeline. That functionality fuels our industry - we fully realize your business value (helping you to realize it fiscally), and are capable of relaying it in quantitative measures. It may not make the company's valuation highlights, but the positive impact is felt and appreciated throughout the organization daily. See article here...

Freight Bill Processor Data2Logistics Certified as TRUSTe EU Safe Harbor amid Global Growth

Global freight bill processor, auditor and advisor Data2Logistics announces the designation of the organization as a TRUSTe EU Safe Harbor Certified Company. The program verifies a company’s compliance with the EU Safe Harbor Framework, and verifies self-certification with the U.S. Department of Commerce. Companies who display the TRUSTe seal signal to clients around the world that their privacy is priority. The certification comes as a component of Data2Logistics’ further global expansion of the company’s transportation cost-savings portfolio of freight bill auditing, processing payment and advisory services to companies who ship products domestically and internationally. Using actionable information from their powerful yet easy to use data mining and reporting tools, clients are able to identify savings, as well as improve negotiations and quality of service with air, LTL, TL, parcel, overnight express, ocean, and rail carriers. See article here...

Control What You Can

It's a tough call - which is more distressing: today's fuel cost, or tomorrow's…
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Data2Logistics Completes Data Center Industry's Top Global Examination

Global freight bill processor, auditor and advisor Data2Logistics announces the successful completion of the International Standards on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) No. 3402 examination. Conducted by BrightLine CPAs & Associates, the examination was established by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB), a standard-setting entity within the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). ISAE 3402 has become the globally recognized standard for assurance reporting on service organizations. As a result of the issuance of this designation, entities have the ability to use a globally accepted framework. Previously, the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) was the de facto standard. ISAE 3402, much like that of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' version, SSAE No.16, requires the examined company's management to provide a description of its system, along with a written statement of assertion. See article here...

Where Have All The Drivers Gone?

The driver turnover rate is reaching epidemic proportions. The ATA has reported
that the driver turnover rate at large truckload carriers rose to 89 percent in the
third quarter. This shows a worsening of the situations since the second quarter
when the driver turnover rate was 79 percent. The turnover numbers are the
worst that carriers have seen since early 2008. Small truckload carriers are not
fairing much better. In the third quarter their turnover rate jumped 10 points to
57 percent, to the highest level for those companies since the third quarter of
2008, according to the ATA. Higher turnover rates are much more pronounced in
the TL marketplace than in the LTL market. The LTL turnover rate is running at
approximately 10%. See article here...

Data2Logistics Completes Data Center Industry’s Top Examination

Global freight bill advisor and processor Data2Logistics announces the successful completion of the American Institute of certified Public Accountants’ Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements Number 16 (SOC 1 - SSAE No. 16) Type 2 examination. The examination scope was for Data2Logistics freight bill audit and payment services, conducted by BrightLine CPAs & Associates, Inc. Superseding the SAS 70 audit standard in mid-2011, SSAE 16 is an attestation standard that establishes the requirements and guidance for reporting on controls at a service organization relevant to user entities’ internal control over financial reporting. The controls addressed in SSAE 16 are those that a service organization implements to prevent, or detect and correct, errors or omissions in the information it provides to user entities. By engaging an independent CPA to examine and report on a service organization’s controls, service organizations can respond to meet the needs of their user entities and obtain an objective evaluation of the effectiveness of controls that address operations and compliance, as well as financial reporting at those user entities. See article here...

Is This The Start Of Something Good?

The answer to that question depends on whether you are a shipper or a carrier. See article here...

Data2Logistics Global Expansion Increases in Europe

Global freight bill advisor and processor Data2Logistics announces additional representation in Europe as a component of the company’s further global expansion, increasing the company’s continental footprint. See article here...