United States Transportation Command

FORT EUSTIS, Va. (USTCNS) --- Celebrating profound and substantial savings to its customers, the Deployment Support Command recently recognized its hardworking Carrier Audit Team members for saving shippers $335,408 during the period of Apr. 1 through June 30.

DSC's CONUS Traffic Management Division, which oversees the audit teams, audited almost 1,400 government bills of lading this quarter and found $335,408 in errors that shippers otherwise would have had to pay. The shippers now have that much more they can use towards other essential mission requirements.

The audit team stewardship of the process through a maze of complicated regulatory requirements resulted in accurate and timely audit submissions to three different finance offices. All types of technical, procedural, and policy disputes between shippers, carriers, finance offices, and the General Accounting Office were resolved by members of the carrier audit team.

Not only did the auditors save actual dollars, their work added additional value through the identification and correction of shipper service errors, unproductive installation procedures, conflicting regulations and policy in such wide ranging topics as pallet allowances, car substitution documentation, and duplication of services.

According to Lu Ann Bernard, DSC's lead traffic management specialist on the Carrier Audit Team, they are always on the hunt for better business practices and developing trends.

"We have to be resourceful and use sound judgment to ensure that we can maintain a positive impact on the DSC's effective and economical procurement and use of commercial freight services within CONUS," Bernard said.

Members of the DSC Carrier Audit Team are Tony Sinisi, Rich Parker, Bob VanDerveer, Lynn Senerchia, Harold Ozinitsky, Burt Soled and Linda Hartage. (FROM MILITARY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT COMMAND - DEPLOYMENT SUPPORT COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS).

DSC saves shippers more than $335,000 in only three months

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