TTC’s Customers understand that processing freight bills adds no value to their businesses and is not their core competency. Therefore, they appreciate the benefits of using our services:

LOWER COSTS!
In study after study, industry analysts and financial consultants have determined that the fully loaded cost of processing a freight bill in-house averages from $6.00 to $7.00 per bill! One only needs to consider just a few of the tasks required to pay freight bills to understand this:
	Open incoming mail and forward bills to applicable department(s)
	Verify shipper/receiver liability for freight charges
	Compare charges billed to predetermined carrier rate schedules
	Assign applicable accounting code(s) or general ledger number(s)
	Enter freight bill data into payables system
	Identify and reject duplicate billings
	Print, insert and mail checks to carriers
	Review and resolve exception invoices
	Respond to carrier inquiries regarding payments
Add to these expenses those for postage, systems time, hardware, check stock, document storage, etc. and it is easy to see how the total cost of handling freight payment in-house can be so high. TTC’s primary business is Transportation Data Management, whose central component is the processing of freight transactions. As a result of our extensive use of automation, leading-edge technology and EDI, combined with the principle of volume of scale, TTC’s per unit cost is simply less! Why incur excessive internal processing charges when the comparable cost of using TTC’s services is far lower?

GREATER ACCURACY!
The freight bill has been termed “the messiest document in the United States of America”. Regardless of efforts at standardization, it remains error prone and requires considerable expertise to process and pay correctly. TTC has successfully supplied the marketplace with freight payables services for nearly 30 years. During this period we have continually upgraded and refined our operational procedures and systems to provide the greatest level of accuracy possible. The result:
	Maximization of overcharge recoveries, whether it be from rate errors identified or duplicate payments prevented
	A superior transportation and distribution data base
	Better freight accounting allocations and accruals
	Minimal carrier payment issues
Why try to develop the necessary freight payment expertise internally when it’s already available with TTC…and at a lower cost?
MORE MANAGEMENT DATA!
	Corporations often spend months of effort and countless dollars in the design, implementation and operation of a Transportation Data Management System that, in the end, is unequal to TTC’s. Regardless of the means of delivery, whether via TTC’s Internet Reporting System, data transfer or hard copy reporting, TTC provides its Customers with more information, faster and more reliably than any other method available. The effective use of this data can reduce a company’s transportation expenses to a degree far exceeding the costs of TTC’s services. Why devote valuable internal resources to creating a Transportation Data Management System when the best one already exists at TTC?

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