Reduce Freight Rates Without Sacrificing Service
The flexibility to excel in changing markets
Our embedded market rate index serves multiple purposes. Use it to display rates for various freight modes and carriers, as well as 3PL and broker rates. Or apply it to analyze and understand the costs on a particular lane. The system can also compare data with other indexes, such as DAT’s RateView. Whether you’re working with spot, contract, buy, or sell rates, you have the functionality, in real-time, you need to succeed.
Learn how much more value you can add using our TMS
Make freight rates work for you and your objectives
Tap into the fast, agile rating functionality you need to find the lowest freight shipping costs while meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Coordinating with 3PLs and other service providers allows for more competitive bidding and rate procurement across all modes of transport. Rating automation delivers accurate, real-time, buy and sell market rates for all modes.
- Easily manage long-term carrier contracts with automatic summaries of TMS lane history, bid information, rates, capacity commitments, and service metrics for the full shipment lifecycle.
- Incorporate carrier APIs or rate aggregators in place of manually adjusting rates.
- Source low-cost capacity from available backhauls, in-network, and out-of-network carrier capacity postings.
- Organize all data regarding rates and policies in a single, easy-to-access place that is secure and streamlined for practical use.
- Source capacity in multiple ways, including private fleet, private bid board postings, and public bid board postings.
Leverage rating data to gain a competitive edge
Procurement
Native Parcel Rating
Rate parcel delivery options for locations worldwide – not just the large North American parcel carriers – to unlock cost savings.
Loading meters
LTL density and linear feet rating
Few systems in the market – even those that can rate LTL freight – can accommodate pure density rating, cubic capacity, linear feet, and dim factors.
Schedule Rating
Buy And Sell Contract Rating
Dynamic sell pricing
Rule 11-Ready Rail Freight Management
The nuances of Rule 11 for rail freight management are cumbersome. The MercuryGate platform gives you access to all rail carriers. You can also generate invoices for each customer, and retake control over multiple rail carriers with ease.
