To dive further into trucking: Eventually, once the IoT catches up and due to the significant, immediate cost savings of cat ladies using a basic functionality SC...it will work as predicted in the slides.
A shipper will enter in parameters into a SC, much like they already do now...if not even less work that now. It will get pushed to the load boards/marketplace to be bid. This system is still archaic and has do-nothing brokers in between taking 10-20% of the load's value to pass this information on to the truck drivers. Just cutting brokers will save a few hundred dollars per day per truck.
The contract will be ever evolving, factoring in planned weight (then real weight via IoT scale), weather, traffic, fuel prices, and time-cost at both ends for the drivers. All these things are estimated currently, and can be seriously off, and route rates/demand is only negotiated/predicted every quarter...not instantly and accurately.
The insurance will be cheaper, and more precise... also easier and faster payouts on things like spoilage or damage.
The paperwork and notification of successful delivery will be automatic, and payment will be instant....much faster than the net 30-60-90 of today.
The inventory systems will be precise, and almost automatic...saving approx 2-3 man hours of warehouse workers doing product counts, immediately transferred to the warehouses DB/Management systems.
So the first step is 70% more profit, the second eliminates another 10% workforce, saves drivers and shippers 10% profit each side (and is significantly more fair on both ends), Saves receivers 100+ bucks per load (x 50-300 a day) and maybe 30% floor/75% office salary.
I can go on and on, but you hopefully get the idea.
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