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Territory 04 · The carrier-mix reset

Territory · Substrate signal

04The carrier-mix reset.

Network going North-America-heavy + USMCA-heavy. New lanes month-over-month. No publicly named freight-audit vendor. Q1 2026 management called freight cost inflation an offset to tariff relief — basis-points visible on the call but not yet captured operationally.

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
FTL + LTL + courier reconciliation

The reset network + the freight surface.

Q1 2026 · cost surface

Battery metals, tungsten, freight, resin called as input-cost volatility offsetting tariff relief — direct-material category management is live, not solved.

SBD Q1 2026

Q3 2025 · margin path

Adj GM 31.6% vs 35% target by Q4 2026. Q3 2025 added ~$120M run-rate savings; $1.9B of $2B program realized.

SBD Q3 2025

Vendor surface

Confirmed: Xeneta (ocean rates). Conspicuously absent: no named freight audit vendor, no named multimodal real-time visibility, no named TMS.

Xeneta · SBD

The full freight execution surface.

Carrier tendering + scoring

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

Electronic-proof-of-delivery + exception capture

Image-confirmed delivery confirmation + damage / shortage / refusal at the dock. Pushed upstream so claims don't go stale.

Per-invoice variance recovery

Reconciles every invoice against contracted rate + accessorials + landed cost. Catches basis-points across FTL + LTL + courier.

Where we've shipped this shape.

8-15%

Logistics cost savings · measured across deployments · meaningful share from freight audit + tender efficiency

FTL+LTL+courier

Full freight settlement reconciliation in production · a tier-1 commercial vehicle manufacturer

~99%

Estimated time of arrival accuracy at fleet scale · multimodal pattern across deployments

Questions, fence, timeline.

  1. Freight audit + payment surface today — outsourced to a named vendor, in-house, or fragmented across BUs?
  2. Of the redesigned North-America-heavy + USMCA-heavy lanes from the last 6 months — how much carrier-rate variance is being recovered today vs left on the table?
  3. What share of the 40% productivity contribution to Q1 2026 margin is attributable to freight efficiency vs other levers?

We'd touch

  • Carrier tendering across reset North-America-heavy network
  • Electronic-proof-of-delivery + exception capture at the dock
  • Freight audit + settlement against contracted rate
  • Per-invoice variance recovery FTL + LTL + courier

We wouldn't

  • Ocean rate benchmarking (Xeneta)
  • Carrier procurement / RFP (your sourcing team)
  • Spot brokerage relationships
  • Customs broker workflow
6-8 weeks · one redesigned lane · full audit surface

First lane: one redesigned North-American lane (Reynosa-Mission-DC or Mission-DC-retailer) instrumented for tender + delivery confirmation + audit, with 90 days of historical invoices for the leakage report.

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Who's building this

Enmovil · the technology thought partner for autonomous supply chains.

One AI-native platform. Demand sensing, inventory, dispatch, execution, freight settlement, sustainability reporting. All on one intelligence layer that sits above the systems you already own.

Under orchestration
~100K
Trucks per day across the deployment base
Daily delivery accuracy
99%
Road, rail, ocean, air
Forecast accuracy
97%
Demand sensing across deployments
Logistics cost savings
8 to 15%
Measured across deployments
Integration
3 to 4wks
On existing SAP, Oracle, transportation and warehouse systems. No migration.
Deployed at
Dispatch Planning
Multimodal Logistics
Multimodal Orchestration
Dispatch Planning
Fleet Management
Logistics Orchestration
Logistics Resilience
Inventory Management
Freight Settlement
Dispatch Planning
Transport Management
Export Planning
Runs under GDPR and SOC 2. Data ingestion via API, EDI, or bulk upload. Enterprise SSO. Deploys over existing SAP ECC 6.0 and above.