USE CASE:
Logistics companies and the cost of change detection
Everything below is about one job: change detection for logistics companies, done in a way that survives a list rather than a single lookup. Mamba Labs builds Apify actors, and Company Change-Event Feed is the one named below that covers logistics companies.
The problem
Logistics companies complicate change detection, for a reason specific to them. Logistics companies run on margins thin enough that any software purchase has to pay for itself in a quarter, and change detection has to work around it. What catches people out on logistics companies, change detection included: a freight forwarder, a carrier and a broker all describe themselves as logistics. There is 1 runnable example of change detection for logistics companies below.
Why anyone bothers
Almost every enrichment setup overwrites the previous value, which throws away logistics companies before anyone can read it.
Traditional Search Tools
- The operator licence register, for logistics companies. Free, and it says which of the three you are looking at.
- Your CRM's field history. Salesforce tracks field changes and most people never look. It is free, it is already on, and it only knows about fields your own team edits.
- A warehouse snapshot table. If you have a data team, an append only snapshot answers this permanently and costs almost nothing to store.
- Keep last quarter's export. Export the fields you care about, keep the file, diff it against the next one. It works, and it takes ten minutes per quarter.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- Company Change-Event Feed1 preconfigured task on this page's job.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.