Shippers have long relied on Excel spreadsheets and emails to handle their freight procurement processes. When pandemic-fueled headwinds pushed historic amounts of freight into the spot market, however, many shippers found themselves running an unmanageable amount of seasonal bids to compensate for annual contract failures.
From there, the traditional Excel spreadsheet and email system started to fall apart.
“If you have 20 or 30 carriers, you don’t really need a robust system to run bids. You...
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