If your haulage company is still using spreadsheets to manage your transport operations, it's time to rethink your strategy.
While spreadsheets may be useful for some tasks, relying on them to manage your entire transport management system can hold your company back in several ways.
A larger fleet and heavier workload demands so much more than a simple family run operation. You may be experiencing bottlenecks, delays, and inefficiencies that were not there before. As your business grows, the three 3 big problems that come from spreadsheets become hard to ignore.
Using spreadsheets can result in duplication of work, which can be both time-consuming and prone to errors. Inconsistencies and inaccuracies arise as information gets "lost in translation" moving from sheet to sheet. Stratum eliminates this problem by automatically consolidating data from various sources, including your dispatch system, GPS trackers, and driver logs, into a single database.
There's no point doing the same work over and over again, it's just wasting time and causing problems.
If you don't know how your business is doing, how can you be expected to make decisions? Stratum gives you that visibility and allows for effective communication within the team.
Assigning orders and creating invoices manually is a time consuming process. Excel is cheap and easy to set up but relying on slow manual work to keep the business moving is more costly than it seems. Time is money, why waste it on admin work that can be done in Stratum with one click. Invoice faster, assign jobs with templates, and enjoy a system designed around making your life easier.
Using spreadsheets, keeping everyone on the same page is impossible. With our centralized database, Stratum keeps everybody "singing off the same hymn sheet". Streamline your communication and delegation with up to date information and instant reporting - ensuring that everyone is working towards the same goals.
Get in contact with our team. See how Stratum can help by streamlining your processes and eliminating unnecessary steps.
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