Driving Efficiency at the Gate: Our Experience with Matilda Technologies

Atlanta Bonded Warehouse LLC (ABW) is a leading 3PL provider of food-grade, temperature-controlled warehousing and distribution services across the Southeast. With more than 75 years of experience working with customers across the United States, our company handles 700+ million cases and 8.8 million pallets across 7.4 million square feet of warehouse space every year. Our in-house carrier, Colonial Cartage Corporation, takes these services a step further by offering LTL service throughout the Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, and Great Plains.

 

The Operational Bottleneck at the Gate

In supply chain operations, efficiency at the dock door starts at the guard shack. As document requirements kept growing and getting more complex, processing drivers in and out of our facilities got harder and slower. Paper-heavy workflows create friction, slow down truck turns, and tie up administrative resources that could be better deployed elsewhere. We needed a solution that eliminated the paper trail without disrupting our core warehouse execution.

 

Why We Chose M.Folio

We chose M.Folio, Matilda Technologies’ electronic bill of lading (eBOL) platform, for practical reasons. We value strong vendor partnerships and operational reliability, and we saw positive validation from other operations that had already implemented M.Folio. Just as importantly, it integrates smoothly alongside our Blue Yonder WMS, meaning our teams didn’t have to overhaul how they run the warehouse to make it work.

 

How We Use It in Our Operations

M.Folio centralizes shipment documentation into a single digital platform where documents are signed and retrieved electronically. In a high-volume distribution environment, efficiency is everything. Some of our trucks carry more than 30 bills of lading, and with M.Folio, the driver signs just once. That single signature is captured across every individual BOL, securely recorded, and instantly accessible whenever we need it for audits or customer inquiries.

 

The Results

The payoff has been immediate and measurable. Our administrative team no longer spends valuable time manually scanning and uploading every bill. At the gate, our guard shacks went from three people down to two, reallocating labor to higher-value tasks. For our customers, that translates directly to faster turns, immediate access to signed BOLs, and a complete, transparent audit trail.

To learn more about M.Folio, visit Matilda Technologies at https://matilda-tech.com/