Method of calculating and displaying premium freight costs

Details Method of calculating and displaying premium freight costs Method of calculating and displaying premium freight costs

2007-07-30

2011-12-13

Jabr, Fadey (Department: 3628)

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

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C705S001100, C705S330000, C705S333000, C705S400000, C705S030000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08078547

ABSTRACT:
Methods for calculating and displaying premium freight costs are provided. The methods comprise the steps of: A) selecting a time period of interest; B) selecting all shipments occurring within the selected time period and indexing the shipments into a list; C) for each shipment in the list, evaluating whether the shipment was delivered in the optimal mode, optimal source, and/or optimal carrier, and if a non-optimal mode, source or carrier was used, calculating premium freight cost; D) if the premium freight cost is not negative, adding the premium freight cost to a lane for the non-optimal mode; and E) displaying the premium freight cost by lane on a computer screen. Information for carrying out the methods of the present invention is contained in various databases containing shipment data and optimality tables.

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