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by SMC³ | Founded 1935, Peachtree City, GA

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What is smc3?

Industry Specialties: LTL Freight Transportation and Optimization

SMC3 is a LTL (Less-than-Truckload) and truckload data provider helping companies optimize freight transportation across supply chains. It provides sophisticated content, base rates of LTL, advanced LTL, along with planning and truckload bidding tools to make informed decisions, meet dynamic demands of the market and achieve higher returns.

The vendor provides hosted technology offerings, interoperability and smooth integration in order to optimize freight transportation of LTL. It also hosts educational events and conferences to gather reputed supply chain management companies and encourage extensive networking, knowledge sharing and alliance formation.

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smc3 Benefits and Insights

Why use smc3?

Key differentiators & advantages of smc3

Digitize Shipments: Automate the shipment lifecycle with freight transportation visibility tools. Use the smart API to digitize shipments, schedule pick-ups, receive immediate confirmation and assign PRO numbers to shipments before pickup. Receive contract and spot market pricing and transit times from multiple carriers while assigning jobs effortlessly.
Track Shipments and Inventory: Track in-transit shipments and inventory via real-time messaging to ensure safety.
Digitize Documentation and Billing: Generate invoices automatically, view and download digital documents such as weight certification, proof of delivery, bills of lading and other shipment information with its transportation visibility solutions.
Negotiate Rates: Avoid paying unnecessary costs by negotiating transportation rates with consistent base rates across multiple carriers. Evaluate the impact of carrier rate adjustments, discounts and FAK classifications. Streamline LTL rate negotiations and integrate benchmark rates into business systems.
Compare Prices: Manage less than truckload and parcel shipment pricing and conduct transportation analysis. Conduct rate and bid analyses and accurately invoice customers.
Find Accurate Transit Times: Get LTL freight to the right place at the right time using accurate and timely information. Identify carrier operational capabilities, including points of service, transit times and terminal-to-terminal networks. Compare service portfolios of LTL carriers, analyze historical transit data, and access transit information in calendar and transit day format.
Automate Freight Transportation Sourcing: Simplify automation, facilitation and management of LTL and truckload procurement processes. Streamline and automate the RFP process with integration systems. Evaluate carriers on performance metrics and optimize RFP data with data cleansing tools.
Conduct Profitability Analysis: Analyze existing traffic and develop cost-based rates for pricing and traffic activities, tailor LTL/CIS to provide resounding results.

Industry Expertise

Suitable for businesses of all sizes in all industries. The vendor mainly serves ERP, supply chain management firms, TMS/WMS companies and planning firms.

Key Features

For Carriers

LTL Data Services: Minimize costs, simplify procedures and ensure system accuracy. Leverage extensive programming, data analysis and industry expertise for improving efficiency. Get transportation data programmed and formatted to fit specifications.
Cost Intelligence System: Get comprehensive insights into the profitability of individual shipments and loads. Leverage the analysis and reporting tools to get accurate and credible costs that can be rolled up for specific customers, freight terminals or lanes.
Truckload Costing Model: Handle complicated tasks such as loading and unloading, stops in transit, head haul/backhaul implications, varying pay scales, use of owner-operators and empty mile allocations. Simplify complex equations by developing the cost of moving individual loads, making specific trips and handling customers.
Load to Ride Cost Intelligence: Utilize truckload CIS to analyze profitability and automate the costing process while working in a load-to-ride environment where LTL orders are loaded and taken directly to the destination.
LTL APIs: Check spot market rates from a carrier chart with volume LTL charges. Integrate with freight transportation carriers and enable shipment communications in real time. Automate workflows and share notifications of events. Standardize vocabulary across document types and status codes to set order to multiple carrier terminologies.
Freight Classification: Assure accurate classification for rating and audit purposes. Avoid extra expenses due to classification errors. Provide all internal departments access to classification content, ensuring consistency.
Transportation Rating Management: Receive necessary shipment details to optimize pricing and minimize risk. Use a standardized tool for bid analytics.
Transit Detail: Identify carrier operational capabilities, including service points, transit times and terminal-to-terminal networks. Compare LTL carrier portfolios and analyze historical transit data. Get access to transit information in both calendar and transit-day format.
Speed Rate Analysis: Analyze rates against different tariffs, including density-based price. Check different scenarios and rerate against different tariffs based on historical data.
Compare LTL Base Rates: Manage LTL shipment tariffs in one comprehensive system. Accurately calculate LTL rates from over 4,000 tariffs. Automate the management of LTL rates across customers and conduct rate and bid analysis.

For Shippers

CzarLite: Access as well as integrate benchmark rates into technology platforms and business systems. Incorporate high-cost areas and updated market freight flow patterns, reflecting latest geographic and economic complexities.
RateWare XL: Optimize density and classification LTL rating complexity, conduct rate and bid analyses and facilitate route planning and optimization.
Freight Bill Analysis: Rate or rerate thousands of LTL freight bills simultaneously. Analyze and predict LTL freight transportation costs in detail and uncover pricing patterns and opportunities to save costs. Conduct accurate freight billing, rate analysis, bid analysis or rerating analysis against multiple tariffs, including density-based rates.
Fast Class Freight Classification: Get reliable and speedy classification content, avoid unexpected carrier rerating and associated costs. Plan new product packaging and distribution scenarios with shipping costs in mind and according to industry standards, minimizing loss and damage.