MIRIDIA FOR LOGISTICS
A small operator does not lose work because its trucks are slow. It loses work because the quote arrives second, and because the retailers who need delivering done have no way to find it.
WHAT GOES WRONG
A small operator gets its work through the phone, through a broker who takes a cut, or through one large customer it cannot afford to lose. After that, speed decides. A Harvard Business Review audit of 2,241 US companies found that firms contacting a web enquiry within an hour were about seven times as likely to have a qualifying conversation as those that tried an hour later. When your price reaches the shipper third, the job has usually gone.
Most small carriers price from a workbook: a zone tab, a weight-break tab, a fuel surcharge, and customer discounts that live in one person's memory. Every quote is a keystroke, so quoting capacity is capped by headcount. Accenture surveyed more than 600 freight and logistics executives and found that 62% of digital leaders put more than 80% of their quotes through an online quoting system, against 8% of laggards. A shipper who wants a price today gets it from the leaders.
One consignment can need a waybill, a label, a commercial invoice, a packing list and a customs declaration, each typed from the same details. Every retype is a fresh chance to get a digit wrong, and at a border a wrong digit holds the goods. The World Trade Organization estimates that full implementation of its Trade Facilitation Agreement would cut global trade costs by an average of 14.3%. Most of that saving is paperwork and waiting, and an operator that keys every document carries it on each load.
Up to 20% of e-commerce packages are not delivered on the first attempt, according to research published in Harvard Business Review in 2023. Every failed attempt produces at least one enquiry, and in a small operation that call lands on the person who also prices and dispatches the work. Each status question pulls that person away from the next quote, so a bad delivery day also becomes a slow quoting day.
From The Operator's Case for Joining a Network, with the source of each figure in the report.
HOW IT RUNS
A shipper on Miridia creates a shipment for an order or a transfer. Cargopilot sends a quotation request to each carrier configured on that shipper's account, so your company receives the job details in a structured form.
Your own workflow in n8n, or a webhook, prices the request from your rates and sends the quotation back. Cargopilot puts it on the shipment beside the other carriers' prices, and nobody opens a spreadsheet.
When the shipper accepts your quotation, Cargopilot produces the waybill as a PDF from the shipment record. Addresses, items and dimensions are keyed once by the shipper, not again by your office.
Your depot downloads and prints the waybill, and each status change is recorded on the shipment that the shipper sees. A Miridia workflow can tell the receiver at the same moment, by email or Telegram.
FROM QUOTE REQUEST TO WAYBILLTHE PLATFORM
CARGOPILOT
Route planning, vehicles and drivers, carrier quotations, waybills and labels, tracking, and customs work belong to Cargopilot, the logistics product of Miridia. This page covers what Miridia gives your own business: the shippers who request your prices, your purchasing and depot stock, and the workflows around them. Cargopilot.net explains the transport side in full, including the carrier network.
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FREE INDUSTRY REPORT
The figures on this page come from our Logistics report: 18 pages, 6 figures and 13 cited sources. It includes a 90-day plan, and it names the conditions in which a different product is the better choice.
Logistics industry report
How small and mid-size carriers, couriers and freight forwarders win more work by being quotable and findable.
QUESTIONS
No. Miridia is the supply chain automation platform. For a carrier it runs the business around the vehicles: purchasing, depot stock, transfers between sites, workflows and reporting. The transport work, including quotations, waybills, routes and fleets, is Cargopilot, the logistics product of Miridia. If you need telematics as a system of record, tachograph compliance or a driver app, a full transport management system is the better choice.
The shipper adds your company as a carrier on its account. Each new shipment then starts a workflow in Cargopilot that sends a quotation request to every configured carrier, including you. Your system answers through n8n or a webhook, and your price appears on the shipment beside the others. The shipper accepts a quotation in the portal, and the waybill is produced from the same record.
Yes. Raise purchase orders to your suppliers for parts, tyres or packaging, and receive each delivery against a goods received note that posts straight into stock at the right depot. Set a reorder point for each item and location, and Miridia raises the purchase order when stock falls below it. Movements between depots run as transfer orders, tracked in transit until they are received.
Cargopilot is a licence that you add to a Miridia plan. It has its own price, which we quote on request. There is one subscription, one bill and one login, and the same API keys work across both products. Cargopilot is not sold without a Miridia plan today, so the plan and the licence are agreed together on a discovery call.
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