Charter management in one chain: sourcing, awarding, checking and settling. As a result, you see per trip what you buy, what you sell and what is left at the bottom. Before the truck rolls.
There is a portal for shippers, an exchange for freight, a package for your trips and an app for carriers. However, whoever uses them all is the connection between them.
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Buying and selling side by side, before you award.
Most systems show you the margin after the purchase invoice arrives. With us, by contrast, the selling price, buying rate, tolls and surcharges sit side by side at the moment you award the trip.
Consequently, a trip with too little margin can still be moved to another carrier or handed back to the customer. Afterwards it cannot.
Your own exchange, for your own network only.
Put an order in your own portal and let only the carriers you trust respond to it. So no public exchange, no price erosion, no unknown parties on your freight.
Whoever then accepts receives the order complete with rate, terms and document obligations. Moreover, the trip stays visible in your system as if it were your own vehicle.
What you agreed is what you pay.
The purchase invoice is matched against the awarded rate and the actual trip: kilometres driven, waiting time from the app, extra stops. If it is right, it therefore goes through to accounting untouched.
If it is not right, you see exactly where the difference is and why — with the underlying records alongside.
The order works its way down your carriers, in the order you set.
Subcontracting a trip now takes half an hour of calling fifteen carriers to find out who has capacity. Moreover, the order often goes to the same carrier, because a planner likes them — even when they are ten per cent more expensive and nobody sees it.
With waves you put your carriers into groups and, within those, into subgroups. A group might be refrigerated transport Germany; the subgroups inside it decide who gets the order first.
Subgroup 1 gets the order first and has, say, twenty minutes to respond. If everyone declines, or nobody responds, the order moves on to subgroup 2 by itself. One subgroup or thirty — that is up to you.
You also choose per wave what happens with a response: first to accept gets the trip, or the planner receives a list of everyone willing to drive it and picks.
An order does not fit your own fleet — wrong area, too full, too far, or it is simply Friday. Instead of improvising, this is just the next step in the same chain.
The system looks at who can run the trip according to your master data, which SLA group they fall into and whether you allow them to run the order. Therefore, you get a short list instead of an address book — four fewer phone calls per order on average.
Buying, selling, tolls and surcharges sit side by side before you award. As a result, you know what the trip yields before it runs, not at the month-end close.
Documents, statuses, insurance and permits come in through the carrier portal and are checked. After that, only what is missing or expiring reaches you.
The purchase invoice is matched against the agreed rate and the actual trip. So anything that deviates you see immediately, with the evidence alongside.
The LogisticPlanet TMS lets us communicate openly and proactively with our customers and consignees.
By your own rules. For example: everything to France goes to one fixed carrier, everything under ten kilos to a parcel carrier. Anything no rule covers goes out to a group of carriers in waves.
Groups of carriers the system approaches one after another. Wave 1 is offered the trip; if nobody responds within the time you set, wave 2 starts automatically. Whoever accepts first gets the trip. In short, you stop chasing people by phone.
No, because they can receive the order by EDI or API, by email, or through a link without a login where they confirm the stops and upload the CMR. Regular carriers can also work in the driver app.
Through the link or the app; the CMR lands in the file automatically. If it does not arrive, a status action sends the carrier a reminder itself after the number of days you set.