Freight Audit

Robust Freight Audit Services for global companies

Our platform streamlines the freight audit and finance process for shippers and carriers, capturing data across all transport modes to give participants a single source of audited, indisputable data to better understand logistic operations.

We specialize in multinational operations with a high degree of complexity and have experience with the top level of global market players. The unparalleled synergy of automated technology and human expertise is our gold standard.

BENEFITS

Benefits for your business

Our auditing solutions are custom-tailored to your unique requirements. We can set up multiple custom-built processes depending on your IT environment, the carriers you work with, data availability and many other specifics. Automate, simplify, and optimize — see how!  

FREIGHT AUDIT

Rate structures

Rate structures
  • Full control of carrier contracts, rates and business rules.
  • Harmonize rate cards across your carrier base.
  • Gain clarity around rules for weight and currency conversion, calculation, routing, and consolidation of shipments.
  • Harmonize approvals for extra or unforeseen costs.

FREIGHT AUDIT

Fully Digital

Fully Digital
  • Spend more time analysing and optimizing tenders.
  • Eliminate tedious manual work with antiquated systems.
  • User-friendly tools for digital natives.

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Actionable data

Actionable data
  • Faster data collection and reporting.
  • Use freight data for fast tendering.
  • Additional cost avoidance potential thanks to the availability of audited data.

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Single Source of Truth

Single Source of Truth
  • Compliance and visibility for internal and external parties in a single solution.
  • Deliver standardization across all carriers. 
  • Greater visibility in reporting and analytics.

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Modularity

Modularity
  • Easily integrate your rates into Transporeon Rate Management, providing modularity across tendering and execution.
  • Connect strategic tenders with execution on one platform. 

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Cost savings

Cost savings
  • Save an average of 20% on freight costs.
  • Reduce labor by up to 30%.
  • Automate cost allocation of freight costs.
  • Streamline carrier communication.

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Visibility

Visibility
  • Get a clear picture of your company’s logistics.
  • Quickly see details and exceptions for all transports.
  • Filter data by time and other parameters.
  • More efficient AP processes.

Primary features

Deep analytics

Replace simple reports with comprehensive insights into spending, market price comparisons, freight rate analysis and much more. Enhance your logistics with next-level decision-making.

Powerful ready-to-use dashboards

Use convenient and powerful pre-made dashboards that have been developed based on our extensive logistics and Freight Audit knowledge to suit your fundamental data needs.

Customizable tools

Use our library of 150+ widgets to create your own dashboards when necessary, tailoring your analytics to the unique nature of your company and logistics operations.

Unified data

Our Freight Spend Insight tool unify multiple data sources into a comprehensive overview of your freight and logistical activity. This provides a crystal-clear summary in one convenient digital ecosystem.

Replace simple reports with comprehensive insights into spending, market price comparisons, freight rate analysis and much more. Enhance your logistics with next-level decision-making.

Use convenient and powerful pre-made dashboards that have been developed based on our extensive logistics and Freight Audit knowledge to suit your fundamental data needs.

Use our library of 150+ widgets to create your own dashboards when necessary, tailoring your analytics to the unique nature of your company and logistics operations.

Our Freight Spend Insight tool unify multiple data sources into a comprehensive overview of your freight and logistical activity. This provides a crystal-clear summary in one convenient digital ecosystem.

Facts and figures

1000
+
carriers successfully implemented globally since 2002
210
+
million annually audited shipments

We cover all transportation modes

OCEAN

Typical issues we come across in ocean freight audit:

  • Incorrect consolidation
  • Too many accessorials applied
  • Unclear conversion rules

We manage ocean freight audit on behalf of many customers that ship either via Forwarders or with the shipping lines directly. Ocean Freight Audit has a natural complexity of often having multiple modes included in one shipment. This also often means: multiple invoices for the same shipment; changing surcharges and accessorial costs. The Freight Audit platform is well equipped to manage all these specifics and our staff is well trained to handle exceptions around ocean shipments.

ROAD

Typical Road billing issues:

  • No consolidation used
  • No rounding rule applied
  • Frequently changing accessorial costs
  • Unclear calculation rules
  • Duplicate shipments

Our Freight Audit system has been tuned to manage the specifics of road shipments flawlessly. Additionally, our Audit staff is trained in managing accessorials and understanding business rules that influence calculation. Road shipments fall into either the LTL or FTL category. LTL is by far the most challenging one. However, our Audit platform is flexible and can handle things like: the absence of standards in LTL rate structures; numerous different charges and business rules that influence the price.

AIR

Typical issues we come across in air freight audit:

  • Incorrect consolidation
  • Too many accessorials applied
  • Unclear conversion rules

Air shipments often come with unforeseen costs and we have developed an easy to use functionality to efficiently manage, approve and register these costs. As such, we work with all the large forwarders around the globe. Understanding and creating a good air rate card is key to an efficient operation and paying the right price for air shipments. We actively engage with the customer to optimize rate cards wherever it’s beneficial.

RAIL

As a Europe-based auditor, we have had to master the complex rail shipping structures faced by multinational clients with European operations.

 

Railway transport is best suited for carrying heavy and bulky goods over long distances, while also providing cost-saving opportunities. The downside of this method is that Routes and Timings cannot be adjusted to individual requirements. We audit shipments by rail on a daily basis and has considerable experience in this area.

PARCEL AUDIT

Correct billing of parcel shipments can often be far more complex than shippers often expect. Learn more about the complexity of parcel freight billing and how to eliminate parcel invoice errors using a Freight Audit solution. Many companies save up to 5% of their parcel freight spending. Use the button to open the infographic.

 

We audit many millions of parcels each year. The ever-growing parcel industry makes audit more and more important, not only for cost savings but for claims, KPIs and pure visibility.


Different providers in different countries have varying set-ups concerning rates and invoicing. In the U.S., there are only 2 main providers to work with and their set-up is completely different from any provider in Europe. This makes expertise and experience with different carriers across many different countries very important.

 

Thanks to our experienced staff and flexible Audit platform, we are able to connect every parcel carrier ensuring full data integration. At the same time, we preserve our flexibility in how carriers want to deliver their data. This approach is particularly important to the largest carriers that value custom-tailored Freight Audit solutions for their business.

 

 

WAREHOUSE

We support customers on a global scale with the management of their warehouse costs. Warehouse costs vary considerably, depending on the size, country and service provider involved.


We make sure that costs are well managed and updated in our Freight Audit platform and ensures electronic invoicing by the warehouse providers. The business intelligence module delivers full insight on the different cost items. As an additional benefit, warehousing cost allocation can also be automated.

INFOGRAPHIC

How to generate business-wide cost savings with Freight Audit

Are you leveraging potential to achieve impressive savings that benefit the whole business? Discover how streamlining processes can generate sustainable cost reductions and determine your business-readiness for Transporeon Freight Audit.

CASE STUDY

Greater visibility and enhanced cost management make audits simple

When one of the world’s largest household names put out an RFP for a freight audit solution capable of serving its global presence, Freight Audit team stepped up. Selected for our digital-first approach and scoring highly for flexible client and carrier interfacing, cost saving began during setup with our Freight Audit solution.  

Top 50 Fortune 500 FMCG company
Transporeon Freight Audit saves big for world-leading household name.
2.5%
overbilling reduced from 3.6% to 2.5%
99,2 %
of payments are now on time
40%
reduction in invoices as a result of process consolidation

INFOGRAPHIC

5 reasons why you need Freight Audit

Discover how outsourcing your freight audit will give you a tighter grip on your finances, enabling you to make better business decisions. Our platform streamlines your financial processes, by capturing and analysing data across all transport modes. This single source of audited data provides complete visibility, giving you a true view of your logistic operations.

CLIENT VOICES

What our clients say

The Freight Audit process drives efficiencies through cost avoidance, providing unparalleled visibility, supplier control, accruals and labor relief. Without a shadow of a doubt, the most important thing from my perspective is that we can guarantee compliance. Respecting the principles of honesty and complying with legal and regulatory standards are as important as our own business.

Fabiano Ruiz, CEO
Freixenet Brazil

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PRODUCTS

Explore more of our digital freight solutions

Together our products work in harmony to increase transport efficiency along the full lifecycle of freight activities.

Freight Sourcing Hub

Strategic Benchmarking

Strategic Benchmarking
  • Persistent freight cost savings with up to 8% with our state of art benchmarking approach.
  • Get the most comprehensive overview of all markets and for all modes.
  • Profit from insights into latest market developments & forecasts.
  • Get a deeper understanding of rate developments & costs drivers.
  • Receive regular information with market overviews, developments, cost drivers.

Visibility Hub

Visibility

Visibility
  • Reduce check calls and automate processes.
  • Increase performance and customer satisfaction.
  • Reduce wait and dwell times with more accurate ETAs.
  • Increase your on-time performance and avoid penalties.  
  • Reduce CO2 emissions and empty mileage.

Transport Execution Hub

No-Touch Order

No-Touch Order
  • Automated shipment execution processes.
  • Fewer empty runs.
  • Cut process costs by up to 30%.

Freight Audit and Payment Hub

Analytics

Analytics
  • Pre-fill and validate fields from the Transporeon platform.
  • Easily transfer documents to ERP systems via the interface.
  • All relevant parties maintain access to the latest versions of all documents.
  • Get automatic reminders and notifications for requirements documents.
  • Instantaneous and traceable digital transmission of all documents.