6 Steps for Measuring Routing Guide Effectiveness

To ensure routing guide compliance, it is necessary to measure routing guide effectiveness on an ongoing basis. Below are six steps you can take to make sure your company is monitoring its routing guide effectively.

1. Confirm that you are receiving electronic shipment level detail from ALL carriers.
2. Load the rules of your routing guide into a central database.
3. Treat the rules of your routing guide as shipping mandates that must be enforced company-wide.
4. Import weekly or daily shipment data into the database.
5. Cross-reference your shipment data against the rules of your routing guide.
6. Generate reports that provide the details of all shipments that did not comply with the rules of your routing guide.

Are there any additional steps your company takes to ensure routing guide compliance? What are they?