Transportation Management

Plans Change. The Cost is in What Happens Next.

Costs are climbing. Service windows are tighter. The network keeps moving.

When a plan changes, the clock starts. A carrier falls out, an appointment moves, a load gets rebuilt, and the decisions that follow sit with different teams on different screens. By the time the exception surfaces, the cutoff has passed. Gaps like this are what prevent you from delivering the cost, service, and productivity performance you’re measured on.

Explore the Gaps

The Cost of Finding Out Late

Transportation performance depends on more than the decisions made within a TMS. It depends on how well planning and execution work together across transportation, warehouse, and yard operations. Nearly half of organizations spend more than 10% of their transportation logistics budget on errors and disruptions. Not on freight, but on the recovery. Rerouting, rebooking, expediting, detention, accessorial disputes, and the calls that follow. The spend is recurring and it rarely appears as a line item anyone owns.

On-time-in-full lives or dies on whether someone catches the problem before the cutoff. Many days, nobody does, because by the time it surfaces it is already too late. Explore the resources below to see what one changed load and one month of invoices reveal about your cost per shipment, tender acceptance, and on-time performance. 

What One Changed Plan Can Tell you About Your TMS

Find the Cause Behind the Wait

Trace one plan change from first signal through replanning, carrier recovery, and freight payment. See where time is lost and whether the cause is data, process, system setup, or the TMS itself.

Uncover the Cause

Where Does Your Freight Spend Go?

6 Freight Cost Drivers to Watch

Rising freight costs aren't always caused by higher rates. Explore six often-overlooked cost drivers, from spot-market premiums to manual processes and accessorial charges, and learn where to look for opportunities to reduce spend.

See What's Driving Cost