Loadsmart’s Next-Gen Transportation & Logistics Solutions
Assessment and Analysis
Loadsmart’s Assessment and Analysis technology and services set shippers up for success in the early stages of their logistics process. These tools focus on optimizing networks, forecasting demand, and benchmarking costs and help shippers make data-driven decisions. Combined with comprehensive network analysis, shippers can easily identify cost-saving opportunities, streamline their operations, and build a resilient foundation for successful logistics management.
Get expert support modeling future forecast scenarios with intuitive reporting and analytics tools. Find opportunities to optimize orders, shipments, loads, and modes. Create plans using proven statistical analysis to ensure complete coverage at the best prices.
Complete a holistic network assessment to discover waste and identify areas of opportunity within your operation. Design and deploy a custom solution introducing a stable yet flexible and agile network consolidation and optimization strategy that balances near-term predictability with long-term adaptability.
Plug your own logistics data into an artificial intelligence solution that leverages trusted market benchmarking metrics to generate data-driven observations, insights, and intel tailored to your transportation needs. Get answers to the questions you didn’t know to ask and start taking action faster.
Receive market rate summary estimates built on trusted industry benchmarking data, complete with recommendations, to start acting on savings opportunities. Review purchasing performance by locations and carriers, linehaul performance, and fuel surcharge fees. Analyze accessorials, optimize freight and payment terms, and prepare your logistics network to weather volatility with this service.
Freight Management & Execution
Loadsmart’s freight management and execution solutions help shippers plan, procure, and handle all their multi-modal shipments. End-to-end visibility is baked into all offerings and optimization and analytics tools help shippers improve every step of the process. Handle your logistics in-house with advanced technology, or let Loadsmart’s logistics experts augment, bolster, or replace your transportation capabilities.
Get a user-friendly transportation management system that enables the planning, procurement, and execution of shipments for all modes with end-to-end visibility and control of carrier networks. From all-mode carrier selection, routing, and pricing negotiations, ShipperGuide TMS helps shippers choose the lowest-cost carrier for every shipment without sacrificing service.
Analyze and optimize your inbound, outbound, replenishment, and transfer orders to uncover new opportunities. Receive tailored recommendations for optimization, including mode selection, order, load, and shipment consolidation, multi-stop loads, and continuous move planning. Save 15% - 50% in transportation costs and significantly reduce road miles.
Gain visibility to your shipments from the moment an order is placed to when a load is received at the dock. See tracking information in real-time with live-updating map visualizations. Get detailed shipment appointment information, carrier schedules, dock appointments, and gate and yard statuses to maintain complete control over your logistics.
Conduct carrier RFPs and mini-bids within minutes, not days or weeks, with the help of a procurement platform built for the logistics market. Say goodbye to spreadsheets, emails, phone calls, and the complicated back-and-forth of negotiations, and hello to better rates and the ability to manage a wider carrier network.
Give your logistics reps a way to easily identify shipment consolidation opportunities within the same platform they use for rating and tendering shipments. With help from an automated workflow, combine multiple shipments into a single load to maximize efficiency and reduce costs.
Leverage the spot market to your best advantage with real-time carrier and broker spot bidding. Get the best rates by requesting bids from multiple sources and seamlessly choose the best one to book and tender directly within a single platform.
Take advantage of freight brokerage services, tools, and pricing structures for FTL, LTL, PTL, expedited, and drayage. Get a reliable, technology-driven way to have your transportation needs met with 24-7 support, reliable and flexible coverage, and cost-effective rates. Shippers can trust their freight to move smoothly with Loadsmart’s Freight Brokerage services.
Leverage a dedicated team of seasoned logistics experts deploying technology-enabled, holistic, or point-specific solutions that augment, bolster, or replace your transportation capabilities. As an extension of your organization, let our team assist you in achieving logistics cost and service improvements while reducing the time your team needs to spend handling day-to-day operations. Give your team the ability to refocus their efforts on their core competencies and leave logistics management to the experts.
Streamline your carrier sourcing and contracting process with technology and expert help designed with your logistics in mind. Move beyond tedious manual tasks and effortlessly manage contracts and carrier relationships to create and maintain a strong, reliable carrier network.
Gate, Yard, and Dock
Loadsmart’s gate, yard, and dock solutions work together to provide real-time visibility across assets and locations. User-friendly self-service portals help warehouses and carriers collaborate for better scheduling and check-in while AI-enabled computer vision systems work to ensure yard safety and monitor truck flow.
Automatically track containers, tractors, and chassis through cameras installed at your sites. Generative AI and computer vision work together to ‘view’ your locations and provide inventory reporting. Searchable dashboards, configurable notifications, and comprehensive analytics serve to enhance the visibility and security of your facilities while also increasing accountability with your customers.
Give drivers a self-serve way to check in and out at the gate using QR codes to save time and achieve better visibility of your yard. Correlate which shipments are ready for loading and unloading to better plan labor and keep dock operations flowing smoothly.
Let your carriers schedule dock appointments with your facilities based on your availability. This helps greatly reduce the need for phone calls and emails, saving countless hours of labor. Become a shipper of choice with your carriers by giving them a way to book appointments online.
Streamline how your yard operates with intuitive tools for managing truck flow and parking. Easily check in trucks to monitor their location in the waiting area. Create or modify docking and parking spots individually or in bulk within a single portal. Quickly close or open spots and move truck assignments around to keep operations in your yard flowing smoothly.
Audit and Analytics
Wrap up your logistics processes with accurate and reliable audit and analytics capabilities from Loadsmart. Make sure you’re paying the right amounts, analyzing your network to check for gaps and savings opportunities and benchmark your operations against industry standards.
Audit your carrier invoices against your approved rates and let Loadsmart handle payments. Get charged fairly on every shipment with end-to-end services that include receiving and processing carrier invoices, auditing carrier rates and assessorial charges, invoice reconciliation, carrier payment, accruals, and GL coding.
Get plug-and-play logistics analyst capabilities without needing to hire in-house when you leverage Loadsmart’s Managed Analytics solution. When Loadsmart handles your logistics analytics, you quickly get your data aggregated correctly and in a usable format, reports constructed to reflect your unique business needs, and insights surfaced that drive strategic decision-making.
Leverage extensive market intelligence from Loadsmart’s team of data scientists to keep your rates on target and anticipate market disruptions. Trends are derived from indexed customer data as well as a variety of trusted market sources.