Drive faster, smarter procurement by optimizing every freight bid with advanced scenario analysis and seamlessly activating awarded rates into execution. The result is lower transportation costs, faster time to value, and improved service performance across every mode.
Solutions
Transportation Procurement Solutions
Streamline collaboration with carriers around the world to lower your logistics sourcing costs and time-to-value.
- Transportation Procurement Solutions
Overview
Smarter Transportation Procurement
Centralize and optimize transportation sourcing across all modes to quickly reduce costs, adapt to market changes, and execute awards seamlessly in your TMS.
Up to
0%reduction in truckload costs
Up to
0%reduction in ocean transport costs
Up to
0%reduction in LTL costs
Features & Capabilities
Logistics Procurement the Way it Should Be
Seamless bid package creation
Create a streamlined bid experience for greater speed and ease of use for carriers and your team through seamless data imports to create bid packages and invite carriers for an integrated experience.
What-if scenarios
Make optimized, cost-effective bids by leveraging cataloged scenario templates and factoring in configurable constraints and analyzing what-if scenarios.
Transportation Management Solution integration
Seamlessly integrate awarded bid results with Blue Yonder’s Transportation Management System (TMS), including data export for versatile supply chain applications.
Streamlined data uploads
Streamline the bidding process by notifying carriers with key milestones updates and allowing carriers to upload and submit bids using external data sources to minimize manual errors.
Automated Activity
Maintain a smooth workflow by automating email notifications and bid closures, ensuring a seamless and efficient bidding process.
Carrier Questionnaire
Use a comprehensive questionnaire and flexible scope documents to gather nuanced details about carrier capabilities and requirements.
Unified transportation platform
Simplify carrier onboarding, streamline bidding engagements, optimize carrier bids and facilitate awards—all from a single system.
Key Benefits
What’s possible with Blue Yonder
Drive faster, smarter savings
Centralize and optimize all freight bids—from annual events to mini bids—using powerful what if analysis and award optimization to maximize savings in minutes, not months.
Accelerate time to value
Seamlessly integrate awarded bid results directly into Blue Yonder TMS, enabling rapid implementation and execution of winning bid strategies that get your goods and that of your customers moving.
Optimize cost and service across every mode
Launch data driven, multimodal bids—OTR, intermodal, ocean, and air—to achieve the ideal balance of transportation cost, capacity, and service performance.
Work smarter with Blue Yonder
Transportation Planner
Plan more efficiently and strategically with automated bid optimization and streamlined collaboration with carriers of all kinds.
Optimized Carrier Decisions based on Performance
Use a single platform to manage bids, assess options and factor in performance when making carrier award decisions.
Improved Procurement Bids
Manage historical transactions from TMS into current annual procurement bids for fact-based and expedient procurement decisions.
Unified Carrier Management
Track and manage all carrier relationships in a single, unified system to ensure a seamless process from procurement to execution.
Enhance performance and growth with Professional Services
Partner with Blue Yonder Professional Services to get the most value from your Blue Yonder solution—faster time to value, solution expertise and a proven track record of success. Our Services Team is with you every step of the way to create a modern and resilient supply chain.
Case Studies
Success stories in Transportation Procurement
Bayer's Crop Science division is a leader in agricultural innovation, ensuring sustainable farming through advanced logistics and supply chain solutions. With Blue Yonder Transportation Management solutions, Bayer has ensured its employees across 50 facilities in over 70 countries share consistent transportation practices and business rules. With the addition of Blue Yonder Network, Bayer has gained end-to-end visibility for improved data-driven decision making across its network, leading to reductions in both transportation costs and environmental impacts.
Kimberly-Clark, a leading CPG manufacturer, saved $14m with Blue Yonder Transport Management and visibility across its North American CPG business.
Mitr Phol Sugar is Thailand’s and Asia’s biggest sugar producer, and is in the Top 5 for largest sugar production capacity worldwide. Mitr Phol’s fully-owned logistics company, Fast and Fair, was challenged to deliver Mitr Phol’s products on time due to a lack of visibility and a lengthy, manual process for managing disruptions. Blue Yonder’s transportation management solution supports an on-time delivery rate of up to 90%, while also reducing the annual logistics spend by 5%.
Adored by brands, recognized by analysts
Blue Yonder named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems
Blue Yonder named as a Leader in the 2025 Nucleus Research TMS Technology Value Matrix
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