r/SupplyChainLogistics

I graduated in 2018 with BA in supply chain mgt from university of Arizona global campus .

Left the military this year February after 13 years and cannot seem to find anything even though I had a logistics coordinator job in the army

Resume is fine I’ve made some final round interview and even gotten short listed in some interviews for final rounds but cannot seem land anything .

Could it be I don’t have cscp , cpim or data analytics cert under my belt ? Any guidance and opinions are appreciated.

I spent the last few months talking to 25+ logistics controllers, 3PL brokers, and freight finance teams moving anywhere from $20M to $300M+ in annual freight spend.

Every single one had the exact same operational blind spot:

Carrier onboarding/vetting and freight invoice auditing live in two completely different universes.

Here is what their actual workflow looks like on the ground:

1. At dispatch/booking: Operations runs a carrier check (or relies on FMCSA/Highway). If the DOT number looks active, they tender the load.
2. At the dock: A driver shows up with a tractor. Nobody actually validates whether the driver's CDL is legitimate or matches the company that was dispatched.
3. 30 days later: Accounts Payable gets an invoice in a shared inbox with unexpected fuel surcharges, $450 in unverified detention, and an address that doesn't match the original rate confirmation.
4. The reconciliation: An AP specialist opens Excel, digs up the original rate confirmation from a shared drive, cross-references line items by hand, and emails the broker/carrier asking for proof.
5. The surrender: Three controllers told me point-blank: "If a detention or accessorial discrepancy is under $400–$500, we don't fight it. The labor cost of 4 emails and 3 weeks of back-and-forth costs more than just paying it."

Think about what that actually means: if a carrier or double-broker adds $350 of bogus detention or accessorials to every 4th load, it gets rubber-stamped.

The problem with current tools:

The market gives you two isolated buckets:

• Carrier vetting platforms (Highway, etc.): Great for checking if an MC/DOT is active at onboarding, but completely blind to the actual invoice, contract rates, and payment dispute.
• Freight audit tools (Loop, etc.): Great for extracting invoice tables, but blind to carrier identity fraud, identity mismatches, or whether the driver who delivered was even vetted.

Neither connects the real question: Did the carrier with legitimate operating authority actually perform the freight under the agreed terms, and is the detention charge backed by real dwell proof?

What we ended up building:

To bridge that gap, we built Noverbill — combining deep carrier vetting with automated invoice recovery into a single continuous loop:

• Legal Authority & Safety Profiling: Goes beyond basic active/inactive checks. Classifies broker-only vs. hauling authority, out-of-service violation rates, domain creation dates, and VoIP carrier phone flags.
• Pre-Tender Driver Identity (KYC): Generates a single-use secure link sent to the driver's phone before pickup. Runs front/back commercial driver's license scans, validates CDL class (e.g. Class 1 / CDL-A vs. passenger), and runs live selfie verification before freight is loaded.
• Carrier Dossier & Web Intel: Scrapes public web intelligence, reviews, and cross-checks business addresses to catch shell companies before tender.
• Cross-Company Fraud Intelligence Network: Anonymously hashes identifiers across shippers to flag repeat offenders, double-brokered loads, and shared bank account swaps across multiple companies.
• Automated Line-Item Contract Audit: Ingests PDF invoices across formats and instantly matches every line item, currency conversion, and fuel surcharge against your actual rate cards.
• Detention Proof & 1-Click Dispute Engine: Matches claimed detention against real geofence entry/exit dwell data. If the detention lacks proof, it generates an immutable, ready-to-send dispute notice with the exact evidence pack attached.

Questions for the operators and controllers here:

1. How does your company handle the $300–$500 dispute threshold? Do you actually fight small line-item discrepancies, or does your team just pay them to keep freight moving?
2. How often do you find AP paying invoices where the carrier name or remitting bank doesn't match the company your dispatch team originally booked?
3. What’s the single most ridiculous "phantom charge" or double-broker scheme you’ve caught in an audit recently?

Curious to hear how you guys are handling this on the floor.

Hi everyone. I’ve just started working in an FMCG, first role after MBA earning pretty well.
I want to transition to a role in Europe in the next 2-3 years. Any recommendations? Or opinions? Or anything?
I’m kinda lost because idk where to look or where to even start.

I'm building a product for wine/spirit distributors that detects unused space and finds cases that could be sold. I'm looking for someone with experience and connections in the industry to help me test market fit.

If that sounds interesting, DM me. Happy to walk you through the product and see if it's a fit.

Been working with a 3PL for a while now, but some things still feel surprisingly manual.

For me it’s stuff like double-checking orders or keeping an eye on inventory updates just to be safe.

Curious what others are still handling manually even after outsourcing fulfilment.