Enforce, Automate, and Audit Carrier Selection Compliance

Carrier Selection & Routing Compliance - The Challenge

Companies face a serious dilemma when it comes to transportation execution - How do you ensure you meet your customers' delivery demands, while at the same time controlling your transportation costs? How do you ensure that your highly-tuned freight contracts are followed, every day, on every load? Many companies find that their well-intentioned contract management process is ignored much more often than they would like when it comes to securing daily transportation needs. The labor-intensive process of manually securing truck capacity while conforming to least-cost routing guides consumes too much valuable time in the delivery process. Higher-priced carriers are regularly contacted to cover freight without complying with routing guides, increasing freight costs by 8-10%. This can severely impact the bottom line; especially in industries where freight costs are a high percentage of cost-of-goods-sold.

AutoRate - The CarrierPoint Solution

CarrierPoint's AutoRate, combined with our WebDispatch and DSM products, provide a platform to support and enforce compliance, while completely automating the dispatch process. Shipments are automatically offered to carriers in least-cost order according to your service-based routing guides. Carriers are notified in order (over the internet, and by e-mail, pager, or cell phone according to their preferences), with the carrier audience expanding over time until the load is covered. Exception conditions can be pre-configured to expedite coverage, such as offering the load simultaneously to a number of similarly-priced carriers. Transportation managers can monitor coverage on-line, handling exceptions rather than finding carriers.

Features

• Automated least-cost dispatch
• Configurable dispatch timelines
• Flexible rating structures (Point-point, City-City, Mileage-based, Flat, etc.)
• Rate Upload through browser
• Divisional, Regional, Equipment-based rates
• Integrated with the DSM bid collection process
• Integrated with Dock Scheduling
• Integrated with DataDepot
• Full visibility of your transportation needs to carriers
• Hands-off operation when electronically integrated with ERP/TMS/Load Planning system
• No phone or fax interaction required
• Completely web-based

Benefits

• Full compliance with routing guides
• You control how long carriers have to respond, and can expedite coverage
• Least-cost optimization can follow your rate structures
• Rates that you already have electronically can be uploaded and used in the CarrierPoint rating engine
• Multiple rate bases provide full control of your rating
• Collect spot-bid rates concurrently with contract dispatch for non-standard lanes
• Provide on-line carrier self-scheduling along with dispatch in a single process
• Generate reports or download data regarding carrier acceptance/rejection rates for contract negotiation
• Provides full visibility to contract carriers, allowing them to bid on new business they are interested in
• Shortened carrier response times due to predictable electronic availability of information
• Reduced costs and reduced errors
• No extra software for carriers to participate; high acceptance rate