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Transportation Spend Intelligence: Ask IRIS About Your Freight and Parcel Spend

Last updated: October 27, 2026

Transportation Spend Intelligence puts freight and parcel spend from every carrier and mode in one place. IRIS, the FreightOptics AI agent, answers spend questions in plain language, surfaces anomalies in carrier invoices, and links each answer to the invoice or dashboard behind it.

Ask IRIS about connected transportation data. See the answer as a chart or table, investigate what changed, or open the supporting invoice or FreightOptics screen.

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Panel showing cost per shipment broken into its drivers, fuel surcharge, zone mix and service level, each with its share of the total.

Connect the Carrier and Transportation Data Your Team Uses

Visualize and Understand Transportation Data

FreightOptics turns connected transportation data into decision-ready views. IRIS can surface anomalies, explain likely cost drivers, and show where carrier or mode performance changed. Your team can investigate the supporting lane or invoice data behind the change.

An anomaly on one lane with a likely fuel surcharge driver and the supporting transportation detail.
Transportation spend intelligence dashboard with an anomaly on the ATL to DFW lane, a likely fuel surcharge driver, and supporting detail.
Detailed graphic description: The dashboard monitors four lanes and surfaces an anomaly on ATL to DFW. It explains that the fuel surcharge moved above the agreed cap while volume stayed flat, and supports it with unchanged LTL mode, flat volume, and Carrier B detail.
Six connection tiles covering ERP, WMS, TMS, carrier systems and flat file feeds, five connected and one open for a new source.
Detailed graphic description: The platform connects by API to ERP, WMS, and TMS systems, by EDI to carrier systems, and by SFTP to a flat-file feed. A new source is ready to add.

Integrate Your Existing Systems

Bring supported ERP, WMS, and transportation data into one FreightOptics view through the connection method agreed with your team during onboarding.

Ask IRIS About Your Transportation Data

Ask IRIS about connected transportation data. It can return a chart or table, investigate an anomaly, find an invoice, run a report, open a FreightOptics screen, or answer from help content and the glossary.

Carrier and business-system logos displayed in a grid.

Use Transportation Data to Control Spend

Use IRIS to move from a question to the supporting transportation data. Your team reviews the result and decides what should happen next.

Carrier payment

Ask a Spend Question

FreightOptics organizes carrier files and billing codes into a consistent transportation record across parcel, LTL, truckload, ocean, and air.
Rate agreement with an agreed price

Investigate an Anomaly

Ask IRIS where spend changed, which carrier changed, or what is driving an exception. IRIS answers from connected transportation data and points you to the supporting lane, invoice, report, or FreightOptics screen.
Shipping rate calculated

Find an Invoice

Trace a flagged charge to the carrier, service, shipment, invoice, and contract term behind it.
Charge document allocated across general ledger codes

Run a Report

Review cost, service, and exception patterns across carriers and modes without rebuilding the report.
Charges verified against the contract

Open the Right Screen

See which rates, surcharges, and service rules are changing transportation spend before the next carrier discussion.
Transportation spend intelligence dashboard

Get a Sourced Answer

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Capability

FreightOptics

Spreadsheets and Carrier Portals

Generic BI Tools

Data Coverage

Parcel, LTL, truckload, ocean, and air in one record, with 38+ parcel and 200+ carrier integrations.

Each carrier portal holds its own data. Your team exports and merges it by hand.

Shows the data you load into it. Carrier invoice feeds must be built and maintained.

Spend Questions

Ask IRIS in plain language. IRIS answers from your invoice data with client-level security controls.

Someone builds a pivot table or report for each new question.

Each new view requires dashboard or query skills to build.

Anomaly Detection

IRIS surfaces unusual charges and links each one to the invoice, contract, or lane behind it.

Errors surface only if someone spots them during review.

Flags only the conditions your team defines as alerts.

Contract Context

Every invoice is re-priced against the applicable carrier contract.

Contract terms live in separate files and are checked by hand.

Contract rates are not in the data model unless your team adds them.

See Your Transportation Data Together

See carrier, mode, and invoice data in one view. We will walk through the platform and discuss your reporting needs.

  • Connected carrier and mode data in one view.
  • Connect supported ERP, WMS, and transportation data during onboarding.
  • Trace cost changes and exceptions to the underlying carrier and invoice data.
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