SOLUTIONS
Carrier Selection Recommendation
Profitability-First Carrier Assignment
PartnerLinQ’s Carrier Selection Recommendation App replaces manual carrier assignment with intelligent, data-driven suggestions, ensuring optimal selection for efficient delivery while maximizing profitability.
PartnerLinQ provides complete ecosystem that delivers on this vision through four core capability pillars:
End-to-End
Connectivity
Provides Seamless Integration with existing logistics and shipment management systems for streamlined operations.
Unified Data
Model
Assortment logic, customer segment data, and historical performance reside on a single platform, eliminating the "siloed financial vs operational planning" challenge.
AI-Driven
Intelligence
Utilizes Historical Data Analysis (weights, volumes, routing patterns) to predict optimal carrier performance and profitability for future loads.
Composability & Flexibility
The modular architecture facilitates Real-Time Updates of carrier performance data, ensuring recommendations are always based on the latest history.
Industries
- Transportation & Logistics
- Distribution & Wholesale
- Retail
- Manufacturing
Features & Capabilities
The Carrier Selection Recommendation App offers a robust set of features to automate, analyze, and optimize carrier assignments based on a deep understanding of historical logistics performance.
Historical Data Analysis: Utilizes past shipment data, including weights, volumes, and preferred carriers, to make recommendations.
Vendor Performance Evaluation: The system analyzes historical shipment data, including shipment charges, profit margins, and historical vendor reliability, to evaluate vendor performance and profitability.
Service Mode Identification: Automatically identifies and categorizes shipments as Less Than Truckload (LTL) or Full Truckload (FTL) based on shipment details (weights and volumes).
Data-Driven Carrier Recommendation: Suggests the most suitable carrier for each shipment, ensuring optimal selection that considers the complexity of the shipment.
Optimized Routing Pattern Analysis: Leverages historical routing patterns to ensure the suggested carrier aligns with the most efficient path for the specific destination.
Customizable Criteria Weighting: Allows users to define specific parameters (e.g., cost, delivery time) to tailor recommendations, balancing customer needs and profitability.
Technology
As an Intelligent Operations App, this solution is built on PartnerLinQ’s modern, composable architecture, ensuring speed, scalability, and seamless integration with existing transportation systems.
Cloud-Native & Multi-Cloud Architecture: The scalable architecture is built for rapid data processing required to perform Historical Data Analysis on high volumes of shipment records.
Composability: Built on an API-first and microservices architecture, the platform provides the extensibility to integrate various data feeds (TMS, WMS, external carrier APIs) for seamless integration.
Extensive Prebuilt Adapters: We offer prebuilt, composable integration adapters for over 80 enterprise application platforms, facilitating the ingestion of Historical Shipment Data for model training from TMS.
Real-Time Performance Feed: The technology supports the Continuous updates of carrier performance data necessary to maintain recommendation validity.
User Experience
The user experience for Carrier Selection Recommendations is centered on Data-Driven Decision Making and Exception-Based Management to significantly reduce manual effort.
Recommendation Scorecard: Presents the most suitable carrier suggestion alongside a clear rationale based on the chosen Customizable Criteria (cost vs. reliability score).
Historical Performance Insights: Provides quick access to the underlying historical data—weights, volumes, and preferred carrier success rates—that informed the recommendation.
Configuration Management: Features an intuitive interface to easily adjust and manage the Customizable Criteria that tailor the carrier recommendation strategy.
Service Mode Visualization: Clearly displays the automatic classification of the shipment (LTL or FTL), providing immediate context for the selection.
End Result & Business Benefit
The Carrier Selection Recommendation App delivers verifiable improvements in logistics efficiency and financial performance by turning historical data into prescriptive action.
Improved Efficiency: Ensures shipments are routed through the most efficient carriers, reducing delays and optimizing delivery times.
Data-Driven Decision Making: Ensures that carrier selection is based on objective insights from historical shipment data, leading to better-informed decisions that balance customer needs and profitability.
Cost Savings: Realizes cost savings by recommending the most cost-effective option for LTL and FTL shipments based on past vendor profitability.
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