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Decisions arrive priced.
"Award to Meridian at $3,180, the low of three." Not "bids received." The number, the evidence, and the confidence, before you've opened anything.
Carico · Shipper TMS
It brings you the decision, priced.
Not an alert. Not a dashboard to interpret. "Award the spot bid to Meridian at $3,180, the low of three." A number, the evidence behind it, how sure it is, and four ways to answer. Your name goes on the outcome.
4ways to answer every recommendation
4rungs of autonomy, and you pick one
30drange beside every figure on the desk
7kinds of exception, severity-graded
1system from quote to bill of lading
21modules on one platform
These are things Carico does, not results a customer measured.
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Decide
Three decisions, not thirty notifications.
A buy rate to approve. A spot bid to award. A detention charge to dispute. Each one priced, each one carrying the record it came from and how confident the system is, and it's least confident about the argumentative one, which it tells you rather than hides.
Approve it, run it, reject it, or open a discussion about it. Whichever you pick, the record says it was governed and who attested it.
Approve $2,010 buy rate · Columbus → JolietNFM-Q-9401 · governed, attested0.93
Award spot bid to Meridian at $3,180 · low of threeSB-SHD-001 · governed, attested0.88
Dispute $290 detention on INV-GSCR-24108the one it's least sure about, and says so0.71
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The dial
You choose how much rope it gets.
Four settings, on the screen, not buried in an admin page. It can suggest and go no further. It can draft and wait. It can act and then attest what it did. Or it can run on its own inside the scope you gave it.
Most teams start at suggest on everything, then move one kind of decision at a time as they see it be right. The dial is there so that's a choice you make deliberately, and can see at a glance.
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Notice
Silence isn't a problem. Silence with a clock is.
A carrier hasn't reported a position in nine hours. On its own that's a Tuesday. What makes it an exception is that the receiving window in Kent closes in five, and the system knows both halves, so it only brings you the ones where the two collide.
Seven kinds of exception, each graded and aged, and a carrier's lapsed insurance sits in the same list as a damaged pallet. It's an operating problem, not a filing problem.
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Procure
The RFP ends in a bill of lading.
Send the request. Carriers quote on a webform, no login, no account, no chasing someone to register. Compare what came back, award the lane, and the award becomes a locked contracted rate and then a BOL. In one system, with no spreadsheet in the middle.
You can see coverage before you commit: three of four back, best at $1,935. And awarded lanes that haven't been turned into a BOL yet say so, on the face of the request.
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Settle
Contracted against invoiced, per load.
What you agreed, what they billed, and the difference in money, on every invoice, with the state it's in. Matched, discrepancy, disputed, approved, overage. Small variances clear themselves; the ones worth arguing about come to you.
Dispute or approve from the row. And when a dispute is the right call, it can arrive in your approval queue as a priced recommendation rather than a job you have to remember to do.
Why this instead of what you have
Your TMS is a very good filing cabinet.
It records what you decided, accurately, forever. What it never does is decide anything, so the judgement stays in the heads of three people, and the day is spent moving information between screens so those three can make calls they've made a thousand times before.
The award file and the system disagree.
A rate was negotiated in a spreadsheet in June and typed in wrong in July. You find out in settlement, four months of loads later.
The alert told you nothing you could act on.
"No position report." Fine. Is that a problem? Depends on the appointment, which is on a different screen, in a different tab.
The spot bid sat for two hours.
Three quotes came back at eleven. Somebody had to open them, compare them and pick. The low one was obvious at 11:02.
One system from the request to the bill of lading to the settled invoice, and an assistant that brings you the obvious calls already made, priced, for you to wave through or overrule.
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Five reasons it wins
Your TMS records decisions. This one proposes them.
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Four answers, one of them "argue".
Approve, run, reject, or discuss it, which is the one that matters when the recommendation is nearly right. Every outcome lands in the record as governed and attested.
03
You set how far it can go.
Suggest, draft, act and attest, or run inside a scope you defined. One dial, on the screen, per kind of decision, so trust is something you extend on purpose and can see.
04
An exception has to earn the interruption.
Nine hours of silence isn't an exception. Nine hours of silence against a window closing in five is. It knows both halves, so you only see the collisions.
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Award to bill of lading, no gap.
The rate you negotiated becomes the locked lane becomes the document on the load. Nothing gets re-keyed, so nothing decays between the spreadsheet and the truck.
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What's in it
Six areas, one module.
The desk
6- One brief across the whole operation
- At-risk, approvals and exceptions in one count
- A 30-day range beside every figure
- On-time read against your target, not alone
- Exceptions graded and aged
- Five things you actually do, one click away
Decide
5- Recommendations arrive priced
- Confidence and tier on every one
- Discuss, approve, run or reject
- Governed and attested, whichever you pick
- Suggest, draft, act and attest, or auto
Quote
4- Truckload, LTL and parcel from one screen
- Tender by waterfall, with escalation
- Routing policy applied, not remembered
- Buy rates come to you for approval
Procure
6- Solicit lanes, compare, award
- Carriers quote on a webform, no login
- Coverage shown before you commit
- Awards become locked contracted rates
- Issue the bill of lading from the award
- Requests ranked by what needs you
Settle
5- Contracted against invoiced, per load
- Delta in money, on the row
- Matched, discrepancy, disputed, approved, overage
- Small variances clear themselves
- Dispute or approve without leaving the list
The platform
5- The rest of the estate, with live states
- Enabled, clear, queued or not connected
- Live figures on the domains that are on
- Exceptions carried between modules
- One of twenty-one, not a point tool
Thirty-one of them. There are more, but these are the ones that change what a transport desk does all day.
Next step
See it on your lanes.
Ninety minutes on your freight: your lanes and contracted rates, how you tender, which decisions you'd let it propose first, and where you'd set the dial. You keep the configuration.
Carico is the ELYON shipper TMS module. Every capability here is live in the product today. No figure on this page is a customer outcome.