2025 Fuel Surcharge Guide: Calculations & Management Tips
A fuel surcharge is a fee carriers add to cover fluctuating fuel costs, helping them manage the financial risks of price volatility. A key to profitability is understanding and managing fuel surcharges, which now play a crucial role in controlling freight costs—especially in the volatile 2025 fuel market. For shippers, simply paying these fees isn’t […]
Freight Optimization: Proven Strategies to Use
Effective freight optimization is the process of making your shipping operations more efficient to cut transportation costs. It involves strategies like freight audits, route planning, and load consolidation to prevent overspending and maximize cost-efficiency without lowering service quality. A streamlined logistics process is crucial for maximizing your profitability. That means you need to spend less […]
Freight Fees Explained: How to Reduce Common Charges
Freight Fees Explained: How to Reduce Common Charges Freight fees are the collection of charges incurred when transporting goods, encompassing everything beyond the base transportation rate. These costs include a variety of surcharges and accessorials for fuel price fluctuations, special handling, customs clearance, and more. Understanding this breakdown is the first step toward managing and […]
2025 Women in Supply Chain Award (Supply & Demand Chain Executive)
Breaking barriers and streamlining back-office operations, Saxon McBride, Director of Operations at FreightOptics, earned the 2025 Women in Supply Chain Award for automating manual workflows and empowering teams with data-driven tools. What is the Women in Supply Chain Award? Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Women in Supply Chain award honors female leaders whose accomplishments and […]
3PL Freight Reconciliation: Find & Fix Errors Before They Cost
If your company relies on a third-party logistics provider (3PL) to manage freight, you probably expect that the charges passed through are accurate. But many logistics and finance teams discover, often too late, that they’ve been paying for incorrect shipments, duplicate invoices, or charges that don’t match their contracts. The process designed to catch those […]
Freight Post Audit: Stop Overspending on Shipping Costs
If you aren’t conducting regular freight post-audits, you are overspending on shipping. It’s a matter of how much, not if, complex billing errors are eroding your margins. Freight costs are notoriously complex. Carrier contracts are dense, tariff rules are hard to follow, and shipping invoices often contain nuanced overcharges you’ll never catch unless you’re looking […]
2025 Top Supply Chain Project Award
A hospitality-focused linen and amenities supplier saw opportunity in the gaps between its warehouse operations and freight processes. By integrating FreightPOP and FreightOptics’ Freight Bill Pay automation, the company eliminated manual quoting, corrected duplicate invoices, and recovered $103000 in the first billing cycles. What is the Top Supply Chain Projects Award? Supply & Demand Chain […]
Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ 2025
What to Expect The Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ is where supply chain leaders gather to explore emerging trends, exchange best practices, and find innovative solutions. FreightOptics will be exhibiting at Booth 119, showcasing live demos of our platform and meeting one-on-one with supply chain professionals seeking smarter ways to control shipping costs. We’ll be offering […]
6 Transportation Cost Management Strategies
Graphic summary: The graphic identifies lack of visibility, billing errors, and inefficient routing as hidden cost drivers, and recommends a TMS, freight audits, consolidation, intermodal transport, contract negotiation, and 3PL partnerships. Transportation cost management is the process of monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing all expenses related to moving goods through your supply chain. These transport costs […]
2025 Top 100 Logistics & Supply Chain Technology Providers
Technology is the backbone of modern logistics. Inbound Logistics named FreightOptics to its 2025 Top 100 Logistics & Supply Chain Technology Providers, recognizing companies that provide solutions ranging from TMS and WMS to emerging AI and robotics. What is the Top 100 Logistics & Supply Chain Technology Providers List? Inbound Logistics editors compile an annual […]