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FREIGHT PAYMENT
“ When you audit every shipment across all modes, transportation providers and regions, you can quickly detect changes in pricing inconsistencies, abnormal fuel surcharges, accessorial charges and other costs that can creep in,” Snavely said.
Freight audit data can become a forecasting engine, helping model future costs as well as tracking historical expenditures. Companies can see the impact of new tariffs, rate trends and other factors in near real time.
Equipped with this information, transportation managers can identify areas for improvement, optimizing service modes and levels, carriers and rates. This allows for quick adjustment of routing guides, reallocation of volumes and rebidding of lanes, as needed.
Combined with a transportation management system( TMS), businesses can use real-time shipment tracking to quickly identify discrepancies in freight invoices, leading to faster resolutions and better cash flow. These technologies optimize freight spending by identifying billing errors, forecasting shipping costs and offering insights to aid in rate negotiations. For example, identifying changing accessorial charge patterns helps target inefficiencies before costs veer out of control.
An FAP solution and a TMS complement each other well— neither is as effective individually as when they are used together. A TMS is designed to help companies plan, execute and optimize the movement of goods with carrier selection, tendering, shipment tracking and visibility.
For example, an effective TMS platform must start with clean, accurate data. A freight audit validates every transportation invoice to ensure accuracy and compliance.
The granular, invoice-level data becomes a single source of truth across carriers, modes and geographies. The freight audit data validates, feeds and enhances TMS performance to strengthen supply chain procurement and planning.
But which should come first— TMS or freight audit?
“ Companies can build a more intelligent and cost-effective supply chain by starting with freight audit as the foundation,” Snavely said.
Freight audit provides substantiated data that can be used to form accurate routing guides, capture near real-time cost data, track actual versus expected
carrier performance, benchmark rates and forecast spend, and improve claims and dispute resolution.
Beginning with a TMS may cause businesses to have flawed reporting, analytics and carrier performance data.
“ From benchmarking and routing-guide development to advanced analytics and
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