SOLUTIONS
Load Tender Recommendation
Autonomous Tendering for Margin Protection
PartnerLinQ’s Load Tender Recommendation App automates and optimizes the load tendering process, operating as an Autonomous Solution that ensures Straight-Through Processing (STP)2. By analyzing near load data against historical performance and carrier metrics, the solution provides the single best recommendation, automatically injecting it into the shipper system via API.
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
Uses ML to perform multi-variable optimization, factoring in cost, efficiency (empty miles), and carrier capacity to deliver the single best recommendation.
Composability & Flexibility
The modular architecture allows for the rapid ingestion of continuous feeds of loads and shipment data from various shipping portals and applications.
Industries
- Transportation & Logistics
- Distribution & Wholesale
- Retail
- Manufacturing
Features & Capabilities
The Load Tender Recommendation App automates, optimizes, and measures the final step before tendering a load, driving straight-through processing.
Multi-Variable Recommendation: Provides a single, prioritized recommendation based on a weighted average of Cost per kg, Cost per Unit, and Ton-Miles/Gal targets.
Efficiency Optimization: Actively reduces empty miles and increases fill rate to improve Gross Margin per Load.
Dynamic Cost Modeling: The App analyzes all available carrier rates and contracts against the current load parameters to determine the lowest total cost solution.
Autonomous Tendering (STP): The recommended carrier and rate are automatically assigned and injected back into the shipper portal (eShip) in real-time via API, converting the load into a tender-ready shipment.
Performance Tracking: The system continuously logs and compares the recommended carrier/rate against the assigned one, calculating all Improvement % metrics against the Baseline.
Automated Assignment: It eliminates the manual Shipping team in step of assigning the carrier, streamlining the Booking Process.
Technology
As an Intelligent Operations App, this solution is built on PartnerLinQ’s composable, cloud-native architecture, ensuring speed, scalability, and seamless integration.
Cloud-Native Architecture: The scalable architecture is built for real-time data processing and analytics, ensuring fast performance and seamless operations required for STP.
Real-Time API Interface: The core functionality relies on bi-directional, real-time API integration with the shipper portal (eShip/TMS) for seamless data exchange and automated tender assignment.
Composability: Built on an API-first and microservices architecture, the platform provides the extensibility and flexibility to adapt to your unique needs.
Extensive Adapters: We offer prebuilt, composable integration adapters for over 80 enterprise application platforms, including SAP, Oracle, and external carrier rate engines.
User Experience
The user experience is designed for the manager and model designer, focusing on governance, model lifecycle, and compliance monitoring.
Life Cycle Management Interface: Provides the dedicated UI necessary to design, deploy, and manage the App's life cycle, including model versioning, governance, and rule adjustments.
Generative AI Narratives for RCA: GenAI provides contextual narratives explaining the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for any optimization failures or compliance exceptions, allowing managers to quickly fine-tune the optimization model logic.
Compliance & Audit Dashboard: Features visualization tools that provide clear, consolidated reporting on compliance, showing the Post-App Avg Cost/kg and Improvement % versus the baseline.
Exception-Based Review: Managers are alerted only when the system detects a significant deviation or optimization failure, minimizing review time on routine, compliant loads.
Implementation Advantage
Implementation is focused on rapid system integration and the establishment of an accurate baseline to enable immediate STP and ROI tracking.
Real-Time API Setup: Expedited configuration and connection of the real-time API interface with the shipper portal for immediate STP activation.
Baseline KPI Establishment: Focused work on analyzing historical shipment data to accurately establish the Baseline Avg Cost/kg and Baseline Avg Ton-Miles/Gal for accurate ROI comparison.
Optimization Model Tuning: Quick setup and tuning of the AI/ML optimization model to prioritize the client's end goal: reducing empty miles, [and] increase fill rate.
Immediate ROI Tracking: Implementation is designed to provide visibility into the Improvement % metrics from the first month of autonomous operation.
End Result & Business Benefit
The Load Tender Recommendation App delivers substantial financial benefits and improved operational efficiency, transforming transportation into an autonomous, margin-protecting function.
Increased Profitability: Directly Improves ‘Gross Margin per Load’ by optimizing carrier selection based on overall cost and efficiency targets.
Autonomous Efficiency: Achieves Straight-Through Processing (STP) for a high percentage of loads, eliminating manual intervention and accelerating the Booking Process.
Measurable Cost Reduction: Achieves a quantifiable Improvement % (Cost/kg) and Improvement % (Cost/Unit) by enforcing optimal tendering decisions.
Pricing Model
PartnerLinQ provides overall business value and industry-specific intelligent planning technology and solutions for both current and future needs. We offer a simplified pricing model that provides predictability and transparency, empowering your business to invest with confidence.
Tiered, Usage-Based Pricing: Our model is simple and transparent. You only pay for the tier that matches your actual usage each month, so you are only ever paying for what you use.
Unified & Transparent Cost: Our unified pricing covers all core capabilities—including integration, data processing, the planning applications, and the embedded AI—eliminating hidden costs.
Simplified Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): By consolidating all key functions into a single, usage-based model, we eliminate the hidden costs of managing multiple vendors and disparate systems, ensuring your investment delivers both immediate and sustainable business value.
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