Touchless FTL Carrier Tendering
What we deliver
The Problem (Before)
FTL freight is tendered through manual, phone and email-based processes. Coordinators spend 2-4 hours per day managing the tender process: generating requests, transmitting to carriers, waiting for responses, and manually cascading to secondary carriers when the primary declines.
Logistics Coordinator, Freight Procurement Manager, Transportation Manager
The Outcome (After)
Automated FTL carrier tendering with routing-guide cascade — EDI tender and response processing that cascades through your ranked routing guide until a carrier accepts, with bidirectional TMS integration.
Only supply chain platform with fully automated FTL tender cascade through ranked routing guides via EDI; bidirectional Transporeon integration; end-to-end tender-to-booking without coordinator mediation.
How it works
Send a tender, get a carrier. The routing guide cascade runs automatically until someone accepts.
- Tender acceptance rate analytics by carrier and routing guide position
- Cascade depth reporting
- Tender cycle time analytics
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.
Only supply chain platform with fully automated FTL tender cascade through ranked routing guides via EDI; bidirectional Transporeon integration; end-to-end tender-to-booking without coordinator mediation. 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.
Shipment Twin
Cross-company intelligence powering every decision
- FourSight AI: "What is our first-tender acceptance rate by carrier this month?"
- Custom Insights: Tender cycle time dashboards
Booking Automation Transformation
- Touchless Ocean Booking
- Touchless Heavyweight and Parcel Booking
- Booking Rate-Shop and Automation
- 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.
