How a Canadian asset-pooling leader cut quoting from 2 hours to 10 minutes, booked freight 6× faster, and gave finance a number it can defend.
Kegshare is the market leader in Canadian keg pooling, with over 100,000 kegs in its pool and a coast-to-coast network of wash facilities moving inbound materials and outbound product every day. At that scale, freight is constant but nobody's full-time job: the same lean team that keeps the network running also quotes, tenders, and chases documents.
Before LiveLOADS, the work got done the way it does at most mid-market operations: quotes by email, tenders by phone, and a spreadsheet carrying the data between systems. It worked — the way a corkboard and a flip phone work — right up until finance asked a question the spreadsheet couldn't answer.
Freight is one of our biggest uncontrolled line items — LiveLOADS turned it into a number we can defend, with the audit trail behind it.
The question wasn't "how much are we spending." It was "how do we know that's right?" — and answering it meant rebuilding the record from inboxes and phone logs. LiveLOADS was brought in to make the answer a byproduct of the work instead of a project of its own.
Quoting, tendering, and carrier paperwork moved into one flow. Confirmations file themselves; nobody chases a POD at 4:55 pm.
Quote history is searchable and benchmarks are per lane, so a new rate is compared against Kegshare's own data before it's accepted.
Loads, rates, and documents captured as they happen and flowed into the systems finance already runs. The 5 pm re-keying ended.
LiveLOADS sits on top of the systems Kegshare already ran. No carrier was replaced, no relationship re-wired, no TMS ripped out. The change is that the work now leaves a record — and the record belongs to the shipper.
"Where's my shipment?" gets answered from tracking in the platform, not from a phone tree. Status and check-ins go out automatically as loads move.
Every quote, tender, rate confirmation, and invoice in one record. Month-end freight questions answer themselves from the audit trail.
Twelve-plus months of Kegshare's lane history is searchable and theirs — benchmark material for every future rate conversation.
We'll map them in your own numbers — your last 30 days of shipping, 20 minutes, yours to keep either way. Then try the pilot on two or three of your own lanes, with a 90-day free trial and setup behind it.
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