MercuryGate TMS provides a comprehensive set of tools, including: Freight Rate Index, which provides rate information for all major modes; Rate Repository, to source carriers in multiple ways, including private and/or public bid board postings; Multimodal Rating, to manage freight with any method of transportation, land, sea, or air; and Parcel, which is native to the MercuryGate platform, building automation into basic operations to optimize parcel freight and support multiple carriers.

Multimodal Optimization can track multi-leg data at both an aggregate and granular level, and each leg can be optimized and rated separately, to: book, plan, and execute capacity from road (TL, LTL), rail, ocean, air, intermodal, and parcel, to any part of the world or multiple geographies at the same time, based on the best rate available.

Pool Distribution leverages MercuryGate’s 10+ years of experience supporting users in identifying/ executing advanced scenarios with dynamic pooling, and makes the process accessible and repeatable in order to make this a standard part of an organization’s transportation strategy.

Load Planning/Building allows organizations to: have vendors confirm shipment details and obtain carrier instructions; optimize across vendors into multiple facilities; establish locations as consolidation points; improve carrier capacity utilization and increase trailer pool usage; and improve private fleet utilization by reducing backhaul miles.

TMS Freight Audit & Payment includes robust rating engine capabilities that allow users to reconcile, audit, and settle accounts rapidly and effectively, eliminating tedious manual checks, and catching wasteful errors before completing payment.

TMS Freight Audit & Payment includes robust rating engine capabilities that allow users to reconcile, audit, and settle accounts rapidly and effectively, eliminating tedious manual checks, and catching wasteful errors before completing payment.

TMS Advanced Reporting puts relevant data into the hands of key stakeholders faster, enhances data visualization and analysis, enables more sophisticated drill downs and report customization and delivery to dig deeper on pertinent data, and identifies key trends and relationships within the broader dataset.

Multimodal Optimization meets the unique demands of 3PLs, providing them with a true competitive advantage, as they can quickly select the best mode, best carrier and best route for every shipment, and even consolidate loads across their entire customer base, generating savings that can be passed on to their clients.

MercuryGate TMS allows organizations to tender loads to selected carriers of all modes automatically, to tender loads to carriers in desired sequence, and to manage changes to loads continuously, automating 80% of loads and reducing overhead by focusing on exceptions.

MercuryGate TMS provides robust control tower visibility and decision support, and the ability to: access data by any known reference; track all loads across all modes from a single interface; grant access to updates through EDI, XML, email, web portal, web services, mobile devices; alert users to late or stale shipments; permit consignee visibility of inbound freight via web portals; and assign activities to responsible parties and monitor compliance.