Benchmark Analytics
Manage your network with confidence, with a clear view of how your freight costs compare to the market, so you can add predictability and flexibility to your planning and execution.
Take the uncertainty out of transportation and logistics
Benchmark Analytics from DAT iQ provides freight intelligence to inform your budget and procurement strategies while managing your network.
Compare to the market
Get clear insights on how your freight network performs compared to the broader market with intuitive, robust dashboards and powerful segmenting.
Create flexible transportation budget strategies
Develop comprehensive yet flexible budgets by understanding emerging market trends, seasonal shifts and pinpointing aspects of your network that underperform.
Identify underperforming carriers and lanes
Prioritize your procurement efforts on the areas within your network that have the most impact on your bottom line.
Reduce RFP timelines
So you can instead focus on building long-term business partnerships with preferred carriers.
Diagnose and repair broken routing guides
See where your network is most at risk for unplanned spot market exposure.
Benchmark Analytics from DAT iQ compares your network against hundreds of leading North American shippers with over $35B in annual transportation spend.
Intuitive dashboards for dynamic analysis
High-level performance indicators
Designed to allow supply chain leaders to report up to executive stakeholders with ease.
Granular insights for day-to-day operations
Analysts can segment and filter data for unique use cases to uncover opportunities to reduce costs, increase service levels, and drive efficiencies.
Neutral shipper transaction data
Access to robust contract and spot data for by mode and equipment types, including FTL and LTL, dry van, flatbed, reefer, ocean, and intermodal, with reach across intra-US, intra-CAN, and cross-border MX<>US<>CAN.
Powered by industry-leading data models
Pre-built dashboards make it easy to interpret data from proprietary models that calculate rates based on key market factors (e.g. equipment type, inbound/ outbound, asset/broker, region, etc.).
Expert onboarding and shipper resources
Data submission processes help aggregate, validate, and centralize disparate data sets. Exclusive events, networking, market research, and reports keep up to date on best practices.
Benchmark Analytics for Brokers
Compare your revenue with the overall market to assess not just your costs and profits – but also your potential profits.
Get unparalleled performance insights
Real market analytics based on transactions by your peers.
See accurate carrier and regional assessments
See which carriers had the most competitive prices by lane and regions
Plan strategically
Unique modeling processes replicate your carrier pricing
Optimize your operations
See where costs and margins might be misaligned with the overall market.
DAT iQ Signal Report
Rate forecasts
Spot and contract rate indices
Inflation trends
In-depth analysis from DAT iQ’s transportation experts
FAQs
A few things you
might be asking yourself
Hundreds of North American shippers representing over $35B in annual transportation spend use Benchmark Analytics to compare their costs. In order to benchmark their performance, they contribute data directly to DAT iQ, which is verified to ensure accuracy and reliability.
Data contributors are always anonymous, so you can feel safe that your valuable information is never compromised.
Absolutely. You can request a demo here and our experts will schedule time to show solutions that are tailored specifically to your business.
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