The root causes of our Supply Chain Dysfunction

Freight Trust
2 min readApr 21, 2020

Paper-based documents leave much in the way of standardization. Lots of companies won’t even fill out the form on their own computers before printing them off, losing valuable time when they want to import the data of the piece of paper or search through documents.

In the supply chain industry, the bill of lading is the most important piece of paperwork in the entire process. Below we show some graphs illustrating how the system works now, and how it works after.

Red is paper-based, blue is electronic

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