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Think Outside Your Transportation Management System - Software Examined

Written by FreightPOP | May 4, 2020

Our Transportation Management System (TMS) has tools for literally any business that ships parcel or freight. We save time and money at every single stage of the shipping process, Rate Shop-Ship-Track-Analyze-Audit.

Seven years ago, we developed a robust TMS solution for our own internal shipping needs. Our software performed so well, we rolled it out to market and FreightPOP was born.  

In this post, we outline our specific capabilities to help businesses:

  • Shop for the best carrier rates
  • Ship with best-in-class integrations to carrier websites, with compliance and labeling tools
  • Track your entire supply chain with real-time internal and proactive customer alerts  
  • Analyze your entire supply chain 
  • Audit what you are billed to catch overcharges and assess carrier performance

TMS Flexibility

The main problem we were trying to solve for when we developed our shipping software, or TMS, was flexibility. What existed on the market at the time could not reasonably be customized to fit our exact business needs. And any systems that were flexible and complicated enough were extremely expensive. 

So we developed highly customizable tools that help businesses to rate shop, ship, automate processes, proactively track, and report on ROI at a cost small and medium-sized businesses can afford.

 

1) Rate Shopping  

Through real-time integrations and side-by-side comparisons, FreightPOP allows you to: 

  • Always choose the right carrier at the lowest cost, saving up to 30% of freight spend
  • Shop your negotiated rate programs
  • Obtain spot quotes easier
  • Take advantage of FreightPOP Sponsored Rates and marketplaces

With our system, you can arrange data by service type, delivery days, lowest price, or carrier rating. A shipment takes mere seconds to grab a host of carrier options, all available at the click of a few buttons.

GUIDE TO TMS - Reducing Freight & Shipping

2) Shipping Tools


FreightPOP allows you to:

  • Ship across all modes: Parcel, LTL, FTL, Ocean & Air
  • Instantly communicate with your carriers
  • Process your shipments with speed and accuracy

 

3) Automation


With FreightPOP’s TMS platform, you can:

  • Print shipping labels for all parcel carriers
  • Print BOLs for LTL, FTL, and intermodal carriers
  • Print SLIs and AWBs for international air and ocean freight carriers
  • Print international documentation: custom forms, invoices, packing slips, and more!

 

4) Tracking

Tracking is also integrated with our TMS, enabling you to:

  • Track all shipments in real-time
  • Receive red flag notifications on shipping issues
  • Track real-time updates pulled directly from carrier websites
  • Process your shipments with speed and accuracy


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5) Reporting

 

Gaining business insights and proving ROI on your shipping spend is now made easier. 

FreightPOP allows you to:

  • Monitor performance across your entire shipping process/supply chain
  • Analyze spend across your various channels
  • Audit your invoices for billing accuracy
  • Optimize your spending strategy with lane analysis reporting

What makes FreightPOP Different?


FreightPOP’s capabilities shine with our integration and auditing features.

Integrations

Our integrations connect your ERP system to the carriers you shop. Data is then connected to auditing tools so you can ensure you are not being overcharged. You can marry up your inventory and orders to your shipping, tracking, and delivery information all in one single platform.

With FreightPOP you have:

  • 300+ integrated carriers, ERP, and WMS
  • Connection across modes
  • Easy set up in minutes
  • Real-time API integration


Auditing

Invoice auditing is a crucial part of your shipping process. With our auditing tools, you can:

  • Save an average of 15% by finding errors in carrier invoicing
  • Automate invoice reporting - save on labor
  • Examine rating errors, duplicate charges, incorrect weight, accessorial fees and incorrect freight classifications from one location

Along with the outlined features above, our customers benefit from our firm commitment to provide them with the latest technology. As part of that, we continually roll out new features every quarter.  

We’ve maintained a 97% growth rate since 2015. Our outstanding growth of capabilities and customers year on year is a testament to how well our TMS is performing.


Find out if your business is wasting money on shipping by getting a demo of FreightPOP now!