We finally got this giant K&N in Iah going the ePic way.

While in Houston weeks ago, we kept a high status mindset believing ePic is the way to go. We visited several freight forwarders there, which inarguably no other cargo handlers ever do. Each time before we walked in to see the customers, we reminded ourselves that ePic is what they need and it is the only way that entails a win-win game.

Yes we will stay humble in crafting and perfecting our system, but we must always maintain an empire state of mind on our ePic journey. Going paperless is the only way to change this industry. Anything less is not an option.

Change is upon us!

Here is the email I received from my e-Freight evangelist, Mr. Michael White:

Dear Mick, Chuck, Jim, Alan and Jim,
Your recent support of our meeting with China Customs and CAAC in Los Angeles was very well received by the senior officials in attendance.
These efforts are quite challenging and sometimes take some time to ascertain results.
We have been advised by our office in Geneva that Shanghai Customs will begin allowing the use of the e-Air Waybill in and out of that airport in the next few days. We are also waiting to hear about other major China ports will also be allowing the use of eAWB.
I do not believe that the decision to allow the implementation in one of the largest air cargo locations would have happened without your assistance during the meeting. It was evident that your participation helped our industry in spreading the efforts of moving toward full eCargo.

Best regards,
Michael R. White
Director Cargo Facilitation & Standards
IATA, Americas Region, Cargo Department

How do you quantify the benefits people had when switching from listening to the radio to watching the tv?

Macy’s in Manhattan is drastically dwarfed by the combo of Amazon eBay and PayPal. How do you measure this kind of shopping, payment and even behavior transformation?

Every month through ePic, about 1.8 million dollars of ISC are paid online, which would mean 36,000 paper checks that would otherwise be processed at the window and the back office. How much is the cost saving?

Hint: 36000×10*60×12*2080 = 34.6 FTE/Year just as one way to look at it.

How about cost savings for the forwarders, customs brokers, trucking companies. Think about the most irritable messenger service fee or courier fee saved, which is $15 per paper check in the US.

It’s the paradigm shift that makes the attempt to measure and fathom the cost saving futile and meaningless.

The great pyramids or Great Walls have always captured man’s imagination.

It is the size or the mere massiveness that makes it imposing and self-evident. We measure ourselves against it and feel overwhelmed.

Overwhelmingly massive is exactly everything ePic is and does, in terms of everything.

ePic is changing the industry!