Is your transportation management system helping you lower freight costs? If your team still spends hours chasing rates and arranging shipments, it’s time to ask what could work better.
I keep hearing from logistics executives who ask, “Mike, what’s 2027 going to look like, and what can we do to control our costs?” We can’t control the freight market. But we can help shippers improve how they move freight.
That’s the focus of this series.
Last week, we discussed how TranzAct’s StarPay freight audit and payment platform can help reduce freight costs by 3% to 5%. This week, let’s look at how TranzAct’s Constellation Transportation Management System can help shippers achieve additional savings by using the right carriers and freeing their people to focus on more valuable work.
It starts with carrier selection. Constellation brings carrier pricing and service requirements together so shipments can be matched to your company’s priorities. When you need spot-market pricing, its automated waterfall process works through carrier options, reducing the calls and emails involved in finding capacity. Once a carrier is selected, the system can tender the shipment automatically.
One customer recently told me his company saved 5–6% on freight costs using Constellation’s rating and carrier selection capabilities. He also valued having three of his associates focus on more important work instead of spending their days dialing for carriers and arranging freight moves. That was his company’s experience; your opportunity depends on how your freight moves today.
The value of the Constellation TMS continues after the truck leaves your dock. When another Constellation customer faced a late-delivery penalty under their customer’s Must Arrive By Date (MABD) program, they accessed Constellation’s shipment records. Those records showed the truck had arrived on time but had to wait more than two hours to be unloaded. Our customer had documentation to get the penalty waived.
If you deal with customers’ on-time delivery requirements or appointment notification rules, you know why that matters. You need information that helps establish what actually happened.
But the bigger question is what you do with the robust information about all your other shipments. Could you consolidate loads? Improve routing? Change a shipping pattern that keeps adding cost? How much could you save through a comprehensive inbound supplier management program?
When companies get serious about reducing freight costs and bring in TranzAct, those are the questions we help answer. Constellation’s data, combined with our logistics professionals and Supply Chain Edge consulting group, can help identify where a different approach could produce a better result and lower your freight costs.
Knowing there may be an opportunity is one thing. Finding the time and people to pursue it is where companies often get stuck. That’s where we can help.
Before you finalize your 2027 freight budget, reply to this email with “TMS” and let’s schedule 30 minutes. Tell us where your team spends too much time or where costs are hardest to control. We’ll discuss how you manage those shipments today, where Constellation could help, and what shipment data we would need to evaluate the opportunity.
Together, let’s find out where your company could lower costs and give your people valuable time back.
We’re on your team, we’re here to help, and we’re passionate about seeing you be successful.
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