FACT SHEET
Freight Procurement NextGen Road
Freight procurement, rebuilt for the AI era
Freight Procurement NextGen Road is the modern successor to Freight Procurement for road freight — combining structured RFQs, AI-assisted workflows and a unified carrier experience to help teams run tenders faster, with more confidence and less manual work.
Freight procurement needs a structured, connected foundation — not another spreadsheet.
Procurement teams need faster RFQ setup, better LTL handling, cleaner carrier collaboration, connected execution workflows and AI-supported decision-making.
Freight Procurement NextGen Road rebuilds contracted road freight procurement around structured data, modern UX, unified carrier interaction and AI-ready workflows while preserving the procurement depth teams already rely on: structured RFQs, negotiation rounds, offer analysis, scenario comparison and governance.
Challenges our solution solves
Unstructured procurement data
Many tenders still rely on Excel lane definitions, variable formats, manual bid sheets and inconsistent inputs, making comparison and analysis harder than it needs to be.
Manual tender management
Feedback rounds, corrections, late offers, carrier communication and scenario building often require offline coordination that slows procurement down.
Road LTL complexity
LTL pricing often includes many breakpoints, currencies, units, volume assumptions and price components that are difficult to manage natively — and often end up back in spreadsheets.
Fragmented carrier experience
Carriers historically had to work across different interfaces for Classic, NextGen and Freight Exchange — creating confusion and duplicated effort.
Key features
What you get with Freight Procurement NextGen
Flexible LTL Bid Sheets
Built for real LTL complexity
A redesigned bid-sheet model supporting multiple price fields, units, currencies, volume assumptions and price groups — so LTL tenders can be managed natively instead of in spreadsheets.
Precision Rounds & Offer Analytics
Negotiate and decide with more confidence
Progressively narrow down lanes, carriers and prices across targeted negotiation rounds, and evaluate offers with a flexible analytics foundation built for pivot-based comparison.
ARC — AI-Powered Agent
Procurement by conversation
Create, manage and analyze RFQs through natural conversation — complex procurement workflows become easier to execute without deep product expertise.
Intelligent RFQ Builder
From messy data to structured RFQs
AI-assisted RFQ creation transforms uploaded procurement data into structured RFQ foundations, reducing setup effort and creating cleaner data for analysis.
Intelligent Tender Management and Analysis
From first invite to final award — in one place
An end-to-end workflow for invitation, feedback, rounds, offer validation, scenario building, award comparison and governance — moving tender management away from email and Excel.
Scalable RFQ Foundations
Built for enterprise-scale tenders
Technical foundations support very large tenders, with RFQ structures of up to 10,000 lanes created successfully, and further scalability improvements underway.
Facts & figures
Customers report on up to 20% savings on freight costs and 30% reduction in labor effort with digital procurement solutions.
Freight Procurement is built on 25+ years of procurement expertise, with 10,000+ RFQs issued each year through expert consultants.
Multiple feedback rounds have been shown to deliver an additional 1.5—4% price reduction compared to one-off offline feedback.
Access to 50,000+ carrier profiles across the supplier database.
Benefits
What Freight Procurement NextGen delivers
Faster RFQ preparation
Move from raw tender data to a structured RFQ faster
Subline: AI-assisted preparation and reusable RFQ foundations reduce data cleaning, mapping, and repetitive setup work — while keeping procurement specialists in control of the final structure.
Easier carrier collaboration
Give carriers one clearer way to participate
A modern, increasingly unified carrier experience across Freight Procurement Classic, NextGen, and Freight Exchange reduces interface switching, duplicated effort, and participation friction.
Better decisions from more comparable offers
Compare bids and negotiate with more confidence
Structured bid data, offer analytics, and targeted negotiation rounds make carrier responses easier to compare and help teams build transparent, evidence-based award scenarios.
Stronger support for road FTL and LTL
Manage real road-freight complexity without workarounds
Flexible bid sheets support the currencies, units, volume assumptions, price groups, and pricing breakpoints required for FTL and LTL procurement — bringing complex tenders out of offline spreadsheets.
A future-ready procurement foundation
Connect procurement data, decisions, and execution
A modern, structured, AI-ready foundation supports stronger governance today and creates a clearer path from procurement decisions into Rate Management, Transport Assignment, Market Insights, and future AI-assisted workflows.
Less Excel and manual coordination
Run more of the tender process in one connected workflow
Bring RFQ setup, carrier invitations, feedback rounds, offer validation, scenario comparison, and award decisions together — reducing spreadsheet rework, email coordination, and avoidable errors.
"Freight Procurement NextGen gives our team a much more structured way to run road tenders — from RFQ setup to carrier collaboration and final award."
Facts & figures
Customers report on up to 20% savings on freight costs and 30% reduction in labor effort with digital procurement solutions.
Freight Procurement is built on 25+ years of procurement expertise, with 10,000+ RFQs issued each year through expert consultants.
Multiple feedback rounds have been shown to deliver an additional 1.5—4% price reduction compared to one-off offline feedback.
Access to 50,000+ carrier profiles across the supplier database.