Solutions for Shippers
Take uncertainty out of transportation
- Cost management
- Network design
- RFP preparation and evaluation
- Performance benchmarking
- Routing guide optimization
Need a better way to manage transportation costs?
Compare your freight spend with the broader market using the deepest, broadest and most accurate data in the industry.
Freight spend analysis
Compare your costs to the overall transportation market, with deep insights that are relevant to your business.
Identify cost savings opportunities
Analyse spot premium risks
Enable flexible budget strategies
Shipper Resources
Maximize Your Mini-Bids
Annual transportation procurement events have never been the most popular time of year for supply chain professionals. For many, the request for proposal (RFP) process is seen as a costly, time-consuming and personnel draining endeavor, managed with spreadsheets and incomplete insights.
Need to build a strong carrier network?
Efficient analysis at scale to find opportunities to optimize operations.
Carrier analysis
Find capacity that fits your network and budget requirements.
Compare current costs to market benchmarks to identify potential cost savings
Identify carriers you can rely on to deliver quality service
Streamline the annual or mini-bid RFP process by eliminating time-consuming manual analysis
Save hours normally spent reviewing historical reports on network costs
Want to optimize your transportation network design?
Expand or adjust your supply chain with clear insights into costs and performance.
Network insights
Get comprehensive historical and forecast data on new lanes in your network, plus insights into carriers active on those lanes.
Network cost analysis
Complete freight rates data
Identify new sources of capacity
Want to build a better RFP process?
Save time and money when preparing RFPs and evaluating bids.
Procurement refinement
With comprehensive analytics from DAT iQ, you can prepare RFPs in a fraction of the time and award bids with confidence.
Pinpoint underperforming carriers and lanes
Identify spot premium risks
See historical and forecasted rates
How does your transportation network compare to the market?
Get a single source of truth with our accurate freight analytics.
Executive reports
Our easy-to-use dashboards provide a full view of the freight marketplace, so you can align with leadership and finance.
Compare costs to broader market
Easy reporting for executive stakeholders
Anticipate market shifts
What our customers are saying
“Our procurement and logistics organization relies on DAT iQ as one of several inputs to support how we make multi-million dollar decisions regarding carrier volume allocations in our freight network... When we run full network bids, evaluate carrier rate increase requests, or prepare executive reports, DAT iQ helps us know whether we are tracking with the broader market in each region we operate.”
- Quentin Wedan, Senior Manager of Supply Chain Sourcing, Danone North America
What our customers are saying
I use [DAT iQ] daily, I like its ability to get real-time data and also the ability to provide efficient and accurate price on freight. It is also a great market benchmark tool. I like that it helps forecast future trends and make proactive decisions. It is also very easy to use. The main problem I have solved is having a quicker decision-making process, Data analysis tools provide actionable insights, aiding in informed decision-making and strategy development. The benefit of this is we can have a better understanding of the market and improve customer experiences.
"Extremely helpful, in-depth insight on market conditions is unparalleled"
Getting an idea on capacity available on potential lanes that we are bidding on is extremely helpful. Especially in areas that we have not run much freight in before.
"Helpful tool...market conditions at a glance"
I like how easy and clear the dashboard is, and how well DAT iQ is integrated with other tools. I never miss the weekly DAT Freight and Analytics update with Ken and everyone. Love the guest speakers and forecasts. DAT iQ helps me to understand the direction of the market and how to plan our business and RFP.
"DAT is the real game changer"
I think is most helpful about DAT is that it is a comprehensive platform that...helps users anticipate future demand, identify potential capacity constraints, and optimize their operations accordingly. DAT offers tools for carrier monitoring and compliance verification. Users can access carrier safety ratings, insurance information, authority details, and other relevant data to ensure they are working with reliable and compliant partners.
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