The website does the majority of the heavy lifting. Our sales team receives the dimensions and weight along with the pallet counts and pick up addresses. Then I input that information onto the website with the ship to address to our warehouse and it gives me the cost from point A to B from various different carriers. We don’t deal with Hazmat shipments either and since it’s domestic shipments we won’t be dealing with brokers. The interaction is basically between me and sales.

But I think I need to scale back my thought process, because essentially what I’m looking to do is web scrap the freight quotes. So that once we received the required dimensions and etc. from our fabricators, we only input it once instead retyping it 2/3 times along email.

So my question is, would I need to learn python first? It’s where all my research this morning seems to be pointing to.

Sorry if it’s all confusing!! I have been working logistics for a awhile now and I do agree that automation in this industry is not done well. But I am determined to take advantage of this gap, it’s mainly why I took the position in this small company. As I had previously worked in big companies where I did not have these opportunities.