Territory · Substrate signal

02Tendering + freight audit at $80B scale.

200+ contracted carriers + private fleet (one of the nation's largest) running 175K+ inbound loads per year through Descartes MacroPoint. No publicly named freight-audit vendor.

The freight loop

Tender · confirm · audit · settle.

Tender

automated routing on cost + service + capacity

Confirm

image-confirmed delivery + exception capture at the dock

Audit

per-invoice variance recovery

Settle

full-truckload + less-than-truckload + courier reconciliation

What we read

The reset network + the freight surface.

Descartes MacroPoint

175K+ inbound loads / yr · 200+ carriers · mandatory carrier compliance + scorecards. Visibility is solved at the point level; the freight audit on top is not publicly named.

Descartes case

4 Big Bets · cost-to-serve

Stated savings lever: "lower cost-to-serve." The next basis-points live in tender efficiency + per-invoice variance recovery on the redesigned post-merger network.

Path to Purchase

One Network legacy

One Network handles legacy tendering scheduling (origin Safeway 2002). Newer freight audit vendor not publicly named — likely manual or fragmented.

One Network case

What Enmovil delivers here

Full freight execution surface.

Carrier tendering + scoring

Routes new lanes against the carrier mix on cost + service + capacity. Spot tenders on contracted gaps.

Delivery confirmation + exception capture

Image-confirmed delivery + damage / shortage / refusal exceptions at the dock, pushed upstream so claims do not go stale.

Per-invoice variance recovery

Reconciles every invoice against contracted rate + accessorials + landed cost across full-truckload + less-than-truckload + courier mix.

Proof anchor

Where we have shipped this shape.

8-15%

Logistics cost savings measured across deployments

175K+

Inbound loads / yr · the scale of audit recovery available

200+

Contracted carriers · the carrier mix where tender-scoring earns

For the conversation

Questions, fence, timeline.

Freight audit + payment surface today — outsourced to a named vendor, in-house, or fragmented across business units?
On the 175K inbound loads / yr running through MacroPoint, how much carrier-rate variance is being recovered today vs left on the table?
Does Newton's organisation own freight audit + settlement, or does it sit with Rainwater's operations team / Finance?

We would touch

Carrier tendering across redesigned network.
Delivery confirmation + exception capture at dock.
Freight audit + settlement vs contracted rate.
Per-invoice variance recovery (FTL + LTL + courier).

We would not

Real-time visibility (Descartes MacroPoint owns it).
Carrier procurement / RFP (sourcing team).
Spot brokerage relationships.
Customs broker workflow.

90-day proof · one redesigned lane · full audit surface

First lane: one redesigned inbound lane instrumented for tender + delivery confirmation + audit, with 90 days of historical invoices for the leakage report.