Stop Flying Blind: Tools to Visualize Your Logistics Spend

Logistics data is messy. Carrier invoices are often hundreds of pages long, filled with cryptic codes, zone charts, and accessorial fees. For many small business owners, tracking shipping spend means staring at a "Total Due" line item and hoping for the best.

But if you are managing your logistics via a monthly credit card statement or a manual spreadsheet, you are flying blind.

The Problem with Spreadsheets

Excel is a powerful tool, but it is not a logistics platform.

Human Error: Manual entry leads to typos.

Time Consumption: It takes hours to break down invoices by line item.

Lack of Context: A spreadsheet can tell you what you spent, but it rarely tells you why (e.g., was it a fuel spike? A dimensional weight issue?).

Key Metrics You Must Track

To control costs, you need a solution that visualizes:

Cost Per Package: Is this trending up or down over time?

Surcharge % of Total Spend: If surcharges make up 30% or more of your bill, you have an efficiency problem.

Carrier Performance: What percentage of your shipments are arriving late?

Visualizing the Chaos

You need a "Control Tower" view—a dashboard that turns those hundreds of pages of invoices into simple charts and graphs.

Enter PigeonAI. Our Shipping Insights & Analytics feature automates the data crunching. We ingest your carrier data and visualize your spending trends instantly. You can spot a spike in shipping costs immediately and drill down to see if it was caused by a specific product, zone, or carrier error.

Stop manual entry. Start strategic analysis. Visualize your logistics spend with PigeonAI.