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Emulon for shippers

Tender, track, and reconcile freight without chasing anyone.

  • Tender to the routing guide
  • Track freight without calling
  • Reconcile carrier invoices
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[event]Order released from the ERP — Columbus OH to Dallas TX, 42,000 lbs, ship window Tuesday.
[agent:tender-negotiator]Routing guide primary tendered at the contract rate. No response inside the 90-minute window.
[domain]Rolled to backup two. Accepted at contract rate, carrier confirmed equipment and pickup number.
[agent:appointment-scheduler]Booked the 08:00 Wednesday dock window at the Dallas DC and sent the confirmation to the plant.
[check calls]Tracking live. Delivery ETA holding at 07:40, plant status board and the customer thread both updated.
[policy]Invoice matched against the rate and two accessorials. Lumper receipt attached, a $60 difference flagged.
✓ run complete34 orders tendered · 28 accepted on the primary · 3 invoice exceptions

What Emulon runs for a shipping team

Emulon executes the routing guide, keeps every shipment status current, and reconciles what carriers bill against what you agreed to pay.

Routing guide execution

Emulon tenders to the primary, waits out the response window, and rolls to backups in order. Spot goes out only once the guide is exhausted.

Appointment coordination

Dock windows at your plants and your customers are requested, confirmed, and rebooked when a pickup slips, without an email chain.

Status without chasing

Emulon pulls tracking from carriers and calls the ones that do not report. Every shipment carries a current ETA your team can answer from.

Freight bill reconciliation

Invoices are matched line by line against the tendered rate, the accessorials on record, and the lumper receipts. Differences surface before payment.

A warehouse manager holding a clipboard on a loading dock beside a trailer.

Shipping teams spend the day answering for freight they cannot see.

How a shipper puts Emulon to work

From released order to closed file, with planners on exceptions instead of execution.

01

Connect orders and carriers

Emulon reads released orders from your ERP or TMS and connects to the carriers, portals, and email threads your team tenders through.

02

Load the routing guide

Primary and backup carriers, contract rates, response windows, and spot approval thresholds become policy instead of a spreadsheet a planner remembers.

03

Run tender through delivery

Emulon tenders, books the dock window, tracks the truck, updates the plant and the customer, and closes the file with the POD.

04

Planners handle exceptions

Spot moves, service failures, and invoice differences route to a planner with the tender history and every carrier message attached.

What changes for the shipper

The freight program runs the way it was designed, not the way the day allows.

The routing guide actually gets followed

Tendering happens in the order you negotiated, at the rate you negotiated, on every order rather than only when a planner has time.

Answers before the question

Status reaches the plant, the service desk, and the customer on its own, so "where is my freight" stops being a job.

Billing you can defend

Every accessorial ties back to a captured event, so an invoice difference becomes a documented dispute instead of a judgment call.

See it run on your freight

Bring one process that costs your team too much time. We will show you the same workflow running on Emulon, with the execution trace open.