Motoral is a Finnish auto parts wholesaler handling hundreds of shipments each day, including a significant volume of dangerous goods. Because every hazardous shipment requires highly specific documentation, from UN numbers to danger categories, the team needed a delivery management setup that would reduce manual effort, prevent errors and ensure compliance at scale.
Challenge
Shipping dangerous goods requires carriers to receive correct, up-to-date documentation for every parcel, including material names, danger categories and UN numbers.
For Motoral, the volume of regulated shipments created a heavy administrative load. As these volumes grew, managing this workload manually became unsustainable and introduced avoidable compliance risk. The team needed a way to avoid drowning in paperwork while staying fully compliant.
60 of our 300 daily shipments are categorized as dangerous goods shipments. So, every day, we have a large amount of dangerous goods documentation that we need to make sure is updated correctly and sent to the carriers.
Jussi Vuorela
Logistics Planner, Motoral
Solution
As manually preparing and managing these documents consumed significant time and increased the risk of errors, fines or mishandling, Motoral turned to nShift because it supports dangerous-goods workflows natively and automates the documentation process end-to-end.
It is crucial for us that our delivery management software supports dangerous goods. nShift is the only delivery management provider on the market that does this.
Jussi Vuorela
Logistics Planner, Motoral
The company now defines its dangerous-goods articles in the online catalogue, and nShift automatically generates the required documents and sends the correct data to carriers, including the transfer of required EDI information.
Results
The automation secures compliance, reduces manual labour and ensures that every hazardous shipment includes the correct paperwork without exception.
Warehouse employees no longer print labels or documents manually or switch between multiple carrier systems. nShift handles bookings automatically in one unified workflow.
Our warehouse employees spend much less time on shipping parcels because they don’t need to print labels and shipping documents manually. They also don’t have to book shipments in different carrier systems. nShift does this automatically in one overall system.
Jussi Vuorela
Logistics Planner, Motoral
Automated consolidation also benefits customers:
We reduce our customers’ shipping costs when they buy multiple items, because we automatically consolidate their orders in nShift. It also allows us to track and trace.
Jussi Vuorela
Logistics Planner, Motoral
And critically, dangerous-goods volume is no longer an administrative burden:
In order for us not to drown in documentation work we have chosen to automate the entire dangerous goods shipping process by using nShift.
Jussi Vuorela
Logistics Planner, Motoral
