Booking Rate-Shop and Automation
What we deliver
The Problem (Before)
Booking teams manually compare rates across multiple carrier portals, apply customer-negotiated contract rates, select the optimal carrier for each shipment, and execute the booking. For high-volume shippers, this consumes 15-25 hours per week. Rate comparison errors lead to overspend; missed booking windows lead to premium freight.
Transportation Manager, Transportation Planning Manager
The Outcome (After)
PO Connect AI and Booking Connect automate the end-to-end process: rate comparison across customer base, and ocean carriers against customer-negotiated contracts, optimal carrier selection based on cost/transit-time/service-level, and automated booking execution.
Unlike touchless booking through a single forwarder portal, FourKites Booking Connect compares rates across all contracted carriers and executes bookings across multiple platforms, functioning as an autonomous booking agent, not a single-carrier integration.
How it works
By automating multi-carrier rate comparison and booking execution against customer-negotiated contracts, FourKites eliminates manual booking labor while ensuring every shipment is booked at the optimal rate and service level.
- Carrier rate benchmarks
- Lane-level transit time predictions
This intelligence exists because the Graph aggregates behavior across 882 enterprise shippers, 10,164 carriers, and 3.6 million facilities over 11 years. No single company's data could produce it.
Unlike touchless booking through a single forwarder portal, FourKites Booking Connect compares rates across all contracted carriers and executes bookings across multiple platforms, functioning as an autonomous booking agent, not a single-carrier integration. The intelligence layer is what makes the difference. Building the basic capability is straightforward. Building it on top of 11 years of cross-company supply chain intelligence, with continuous learning from 2.5 million agent actions per month, is what took a decade and cannot be replicated with software alone.
Order Twin, Shipment Twin
Cross-company intelligence powering every decision
- FourSight AI: "What is our booking compliance rate by lane this month?"
- Custom Insights: Rate optimization dashboards
Booking Automation Transformation
- Touchless Ocean Booking
- Touchless Heavyweight and Parcel Booking
- Touchless FTL Carrier Tendering
- AI-Powered PO-to-Booking Conversion
- Reliability-Weighted Ocean Carrier Selection
Validation
Deployment Evidence
Expected Impact Range
Related outcomes
Every supplier document processed and linked to orders automatically. Zero manual data entry. For supplier-managed shipments, FourKites creates shipments and updates orders directly from these documents, eliminating manual shipment creation entirely.
Your logistics team never makes another carrier check call. Every exception resolved before it impacts delivery.
New suppliers live on the platform in days, not weeks. No IT projects required. FourKites onboards suppliers by leveraging documents and the underlying carriers already connected through our existing 500K+ carrier network.
One billion hours of operational work completed by AI agents over the next decade.
