You can't prove which supplier caused the expedite. So you absorb it.
The operating model for capturing the decision, the cost, and the root cause as the event unfolds — so you can separate necessary protection from avoidable leakage.
- A clean way to attribute premium freight to the supplier, lane, or plant that caused it.
- The case model that captures cost, decision, and approval in the same record as the event.
- The last-ten test: a two-minute look at your last ten expedites and which ones were avoidable.
Read by supply chain & logistics teams at automotive and manufacturing suppliers
The freight bill is visible. Whether it was justified — and whose it was — is not.
Cost without context
The invoice, accessorials, and accruals arrive weeks after the event. By then no one can say why the shipment was urgent or who approved it.
No evidence, no chargeback
You know the supplier was late, but without a clean record of what was promised and when it slipped, the conversation turns emotional instead of operational — and you eat the cost.
Avoidable or unavoidable?
Some expedites protect the business; others are repeatable failures. Without a trail, you can't separate the two — so cost reduction stays blunt.
“I can't prove which supplier caused the expedite, so we just absorb it.”
The model in this whitepaper cut DBW's supply-chain costs by 18%.
“Orkestra improved our logistics from the ‘Stone-Age’ — full visibility from our factories in Europe and Mexico all the way to our final customers in North America.”
The operating model DBW used is laid out in the whitepaper — the case definition, the response object, and the last-ten test you can run on your own lanes this week.
Figures published by DBW following its Orkestra engagement. Specific to DBW; not a projection for other companies.
Map your premium-freight evidence trail.
Bring one recurring premium-freight problem to a short session, and we'll map how cost is approved, attributed, and reviewed today — and where the evidence breaks.