Solutions For 3PLs

Our platform enhances operations through automation, optimization, and process improvements, ensuring greater efficiency, reduced costs, and streamlined workflows for third-party logistics providers.

Optimize 3PL Logistics with Automation and A.I.

Our platform offers 3PL providers advanced automation, optimization, and data-driven solutions to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall operational performance

Control Tower for 3PL Carriers

Centralized, real-time visibility over operations to enhance decision-making and manage exceptions proactively.

Advanced Planning

with What-If Scenario Planning: Optimize resource allocation and scheduling by simulating different scenarios to plan for varying operational conditions.

Bid Preparation

Utilize historical data and trends to quickly prepare accurate and competitive bids, optimizing pricing strategies.

Load Optimization and Matching

Maximize load capacity and match shipments with available assets for more efficient transport operations.

Process Automation

Automate routine, manual tasks to increase productivity and reduce operational costs while minimizing human error.

Analytics and Reporting

Generate insightful, real-time reports on performance metrics, improving operational efficiency and supporting data-driven decision-making.

Control Tower

A Control Tower Solution for 3PLs provides real-time visibility and centralized management, enabling you to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and proactively manage logistics.

Single pane of glass

Gain a comprehensive, real-time overview of your entire logistics operation, with live tracking, ELD integration, and status updates. This boosts operational efficiency by enabling informed, centralized decision-making.

Receive immediate notifications when disruptions occur, allowing for preemptive corrective actions. This minimizes delays and operational impacts, ensuring smoother logistics and higher on-time delivery rates.

Stay up-to-date on deviations from planned operations with real-time compliance alerts, ensuring smooth workflows and reducing the risk of regulatory or contractual violations.

Ensure that resources are deployed according to availability and freight constraints, optimizing capacity utilization and maximizing return on assets for increased profitability.

Leverage real-time data and performance metrics to enhance decision-making, reduce bottlenecks, and continuously improve logistics performance.

Facilitate seamless communication between drivers, dispatchers, and management, reducing miscommunication and speeding up response times for faster issue resolution.

Scenario Planning

An Advanced Planning/Scenario Planning solution for 3PLs provides enhanced decision-making and optimization through real-time data and scenario simulations, enabling businesses to improve operations and reduce costs.

Multi-mode selection

Seamlessly select the most efficient transportation modes—air, ground, or sea—across shipments, ensuring cost savings and optimal delivery times, improving overall service performance.

Deliver more value by reducing unnecessary costs, focusing on service quality, and aligning operations with customer priorities, driving increased satisfaction and loyalty.

Automatically assign resources, carriers, and assets based on real-time availability and freight requirements, reducing delays and maximizing operational efficiency.

Run simulations to explore various logistics scenarios and their impacts, helping you proactively optimize decisions and prepare for potential disruptions before they occur.

Tailor operations to meet specific customer delivery requirements, ensuring higher satisfaction, better service reliability, and stronger relationships.

Enhance flexibility by adjusting resource allocation and transportation modes dynamically, improving agility in response to shifting customer demands and market conditions.

Bid Preparation

A Bid Preparation solution for 3PLs streamlines the bidding process by leveraging data-driven insights and automation, enabling businesses to make more accurate, competitive bids.

Multi-Scenario Analysis

Upload and analyze multiple bidding scenarios with variable parameters to compare lane pricing options. This helps you select the most profitable pricing strategy, ensuring higher margins.

Industry Rates Integration

Collaborate with rating engines to access real-time industry rates for each lane, allowing you to bid competitively without risking overbidding or underbidding.

Historical Trends Analytics

Utilize advanced analytics to gain insights into historical price trends, cost variance, and seasonality. This improves bid accuracy by factoring in past performance data and market conditions.

Automated Cost Projections

Automatically calculate cost projections based on operational inputs such as lane distance, fuel prices, and freight type, ensuring data-driven and accurate bid submissions.

Load Optimization

A Load Matching solution for 3PLs optimizes asset allocation, reduces costs, and improves operational efficiency.

Real-Time Optimization

Dynamically adjust load assignments and routes in real-time, allowing for immediate responses to operational changes and maximizing efficiency.

Prevent costly out-of-route miles by optimizing routes, saving time and transportation costs while improving profitability.

Automatically allocate loads based on real-time freight availability and changing customer demands, ensuring optimal utilization of assets.

Increase lane density and reduce empty miles, leading to higher revenue per mile and improved profit margins.

Plan and adjust routes around traffic, pickup and delivery delays, and dwell times to keep shipments on schedule and minimize costly delays.

Adapt quickly to fluctuating operational demands and reroute efficiently to accommodate last-minute changes, enhancing overall service quality and responsiveness.

Process Automation

Process Automation solutions for 3PLs streamline operations, reduce manual tasks, and improve overall efficiency by leveraging advanced technologies.

Automated Order Processing

Streamline order management by automating routine tasks such as order entry, tracking, and fulfillment, reducing errors and improving speed to delivery.

Automated Billing and Invoicing

Eliminate manual invoicing with automated billing solutions, ensuring accurate, timely payments and reducing administrative overhead.

Workflow Automation

Simplify appointment scheduling for pickups and deliveries, reducing coordination delays and ensuring smoother operations with real-time updates.

Automated Cost Projections

Automate repetitive workflows such as scheduling, carrier selection, and document management, allowing teams to focus on higher-value tasks, increasing productivity and efficiency.

Analytics and Reporting

Analytics and Reporting solutions for 3PLs provide actionable insights and visibility into operations, enabling data-driven decision-making and improved customer service.

Customer-Centric Reporting

Deliver tailored reports that provide your customers with real-time visibility into shipment status and performance metrics, enhancing transparency and customer satisfaction.

Operational Performance Tracking

Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) like delivery times, asset utilization, and cost efficiency to optimize operations and identify areas for improvement.

What-If Scenario Analysis

Perform advanced “what-if” scenarios to predict the impact of different operational strategies, allowing you to make informed decisions and mitigate risks before they arise.

Automated Reporting

Generate real-time, automated reports that provide insights into financials, logistics performance, and operational bottlenecks, enabling faster decision-making and reduced manual effort.

Sphere’s Third Party Logistics (3PL) Offering

Sphere’s Third Party Logistics (3PL) solutions provide comprehensive, customized services tailored specifically for the US market. By leveraging advanced tracking, optimized routing, and proactive safety measures, we enhance operational efficiency, minimize logistics costs, and uphold the highest safety standards across the entire supply chain. Our solutions guarantee secure, timely deliveries nationwide, meeting the unique requirements of shippers, manufacturers, and distributors while driving customer satisfaction and supporting business growth. Sphere is dedicated to offering seamless, end-to-end 3PL management that streamlines logistics operations and consistently delivers top-tier results.

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