A Guide for Shippers
The market has shifted.
Here's how the strongest
shippers are responding.
Tender rejections are rising. Spot rates are moving. Routing guides built for a buyer's market are starting to crack. This guide is for the teams who want to get ahead of it.
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124%
Surge in sourcing events
~$1M
Excess cost at stake
6 moves the best-positioned shippers are making
Making procurement a continuous discipline
Staying nimble
Explaining the story to leadership
Building depth into their routing guide
Becoming a shipper of choice
Managing with data, not anecdotes
The past couple years we've seen very strong tender acceptance. The past couple months we've dropped into the eighties. Even with that shift, we're only moving about one and a half percent of volume to spot — because of the team's strategy and the consistency of our carrier relationships.
— Marisa Dempsey, Supply Chain Planning Manager, Schreiber Foods
A practical playbook for how to operate now
Drawn from strategies transportation teams are running right now across the GoodShip customer base. Practical moves, not theoretical frameworks.