A common operational gap in B2B logistics is that different teams use different reference numbers. Sales and finance know the invoice number; the transporter and logistics team know the LR number. Neither can immediately answer a POD question using the other’s reference.
The connection runs: Invoice → LR → Delivery → POD. When an invoice is linked to its LR at the time of dispatch, finding the POD later becomes a simple lookup instead of a phone call to the transport desk.
This also handles the real-world case where one LR covers multiple invoices moving together — a common pattern in B2B distribution that a one-to-one invoice-to-shipment assumption cannot represent.