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Picture Documentation for Freight Claims White Paper – Part III | LoadProof

 

LoadProof – Enterprise wide Rollout

INTRODUCTION

This document describes the following,

  1. Provides high level guidelines to deploy Loadproof enterprise-wide involving 2 or more distribution centers producing the most dollar savings for warehouse managers that own the sites.
  2. Best practices to follow while deploying Loadproof across 2 or more sites in an enterprise-wide fashion.
  3. Also build momentum within the enterprise among the warehouse general managers, so Loadproof is deployed swiftly producing the maximum dollar savings enterprise-wide quickly.
  4. Any tool if not implemented correctly and accurately will not produce the desired results. So it is very important that the implementation effort is as great as the tool in order to maximize the gains from the tool such as LoadProof enterprise-wide.
  5. This document describes the implementation of an effective Picture Documentation system in an enterprise. If you review the “Pictures for Freight Claims – White Paper – Part1” , “Pictures for Freight Claims – White Paper – Part2”and then review this current document, you will get much more value out of this exercise to understand the Picture Documentation System thoroughly. However, it is okay to review this current document by itself as well.

Background

LoadProof is a photo documentation SAAS solution that allows any warehouse manager to develop a catalog of easily searchable photos with contextual data that helps warehouses, manufacturers, shippers and suppliers reduce claims, chargebacks and also get Freight Claims processed faster. While it is a much simple project to turn on Loadproof for one or two sites, whereas rolling out LoadProof in a larger enterprise involving 2 or more sites is a different ball game that needs to be approached differently with appropriate sponsorship and evangelizing for a broader acceptance realizing the most cost savings for the whole enterprise.

Establish a LoadProof Deployment Project

1. It is important to establish a LoadProof deployment project with a dedicated project manager within your Enterprise to successfully carry out the deployment of the LoadProof tool in all your sites. 

2. And this project manager gets all the resources, staffing, support, sponsorship and everything else like all other projects that are executed within the enterprise 

3. And this project manager is held accountable for LoadProof deployment in all the sites within the enterprise and the associated cost savings that the Loadproof tool provides.

 4. And this project is managed, monitored and executed like any other project within the enterprise with weekly status calls and other associated activities. 

5. The Project Manager provides a clear project plan for the rollout and executes to that plan like any other project following the project execution methodologies publishing appropriate status reports to the key stake holders, site managers, project sponsors, steering committee etc.

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