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A Logistics Cost Optimization Playbook reads freight invoices, carrier contracts, routing decisions, and consolidation patterns to surface where logistics spend is leaking and which lane and carrier moves recover it.
The Challenge
Carrier rates are typically negotiated once a year against volume forecasts that assume lane stability. Volumes shift. Lanes change. Surcharges creep. The negotiated rate that looked great in January is paying 18 to 22% above market by Q3, but the contract sits in a folder until renewal.
Routing happens at the shipment level, mostly through a TMS rule set written years ago. No one revisits whether the rules still match the carrier landscape. Suboptimal lane assignments compound across thousands of shipments without showing up in any single invoice review.
LTL shipments stack up to volumes that would justify FTL contracts, but the consolidation analysis is rarely run. Less-than-truckload spend hides in transactional freight invoices that no analyst has the time to model at the lane and time-window level.
How eyko Solves It
A Logistics Cost Optimization Playbook combines freight invoice line items, carrier contract terms, lane-level performance, and shipment volume patterns. It surfaces where rates are eroding, which carriers are over-performing on which lanes, and where LTL consolidation creates FTL savings.
The Playbook identified $1.4M in annual logistics waste across the current shipment base. 22% of shipments are routed suboptimally relative to current carrier rates and lane performance. Carrier B outperforms Carrier A by 18% on Southeast lanes. 340 LTL shipments per quarter are consolidatable into FTL, with $220K in annual savings on that single move alone.
| Metric | Current | Benchmark | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary indicator | Flagged | Target | Action needed |
| Secondary indicator | Monitoring | Within range | On track |
| Trend direction | Declining | Stable | Review required |
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Everything you need to know about Logistics Waste by Source.
Logistics Cost Optimization is an AI-driven analysis of freight invoices, carrier contracts, routing decisions, and shipment consolidation patterns. The Playbook surfaces where logistics spend is leaking against the current carrier landscape and recommends the specific lane, carrier, and consolidation moves that recover it. The output is a ranked savings list with the action attached, not a generic logistics scorecard.
The Playbook reads from your TMS (shipments, routing decisions, mode selection), carrier invoices (line-item rates, surcharges, accessorials), carrier contracts (negotiated rates by lane and tier), and order data for shipment context. It also incorporates lane-level on-time performance and damage rates so service quality is weighted alongside cost.
Yes. The Playbook produces a lane-by-lane comparison of every carrier in use, ranked on the same dimensions: rate per mile, on-time rate, damage rate, and capacity reliability. The output identifies which carriers outperform on which specific lanes and recommends shipment volume moves that improve cost without trading away service level.
The Playbook clusters LTL shipments by lane, time window, and customer pair to identify combinations that meet FTL volume and weight thresholds. It then models the rate difference between the LTL spend and an equivalent FTL contract on the same lane, surfacing consolidation opportunities ranked by annual savings. The team gets a list of specific lane and time-window targets, not a generic "consolidate more" recommendation.
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