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FreightPlan: Smarter Load Building for Cost-Effective Shipping

Optimize your LTL & FTL Load Planning with Smart Automation.

FreightPlan Software

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Smarter Load Planning, Seamlessly Automated  

Optimize inbound and outbound freight with dynamic load building, order consolidation, and cost-efficient shipping plans.

FreightPlan automates pre-shipment load planning for both inbound and outbound freight, seamlessly integrating with ShipSoft™ Freight. It enables dynamic load building, order consolidation, and generates optimal shipping plans based on user-defined parameters. This ensures the most efficient routing, meeting customer delivery requirements and reducing transportation costs.

How FreightPlan Works

FreightPlan automates once tedious tasks associated with load planning, including:

Optimized Carrier Selection (Rate Shopping)

Automates the inbound and outbound pre-shipment load planning process by creating and recommending shipment consolidation plans based on user defined parameters.

Online Load Plan Review/Acceptance

FreightPlan analyzes shipment data to create detailed shipping plans, including Shipping Instructions, a Driver’s Log, and cost-saving comparisons against alternative options.

Customizable Shipping Rules and Compliance

FreightPlan is configured to align with user-specific business rules, ensuring shipments meet customer delivery requirements, arrive on time, use the correct carrier, and comply with routing guides.

Saves Time

Eliminates the time-consuming process of manually generating load plans.

Key Benefits of FreightPlan

FreightPlan empowers businesses to streamline their shipping operations with intelligent load building, optimized routing, and seamless collaboration tools. By maximizing transportation efficiency and aligning shipments with service standards, FreightPlan helps reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction, and ensure every delivery meets your business needs. Explore how FreightPlan enhances your shipping strategy with precision and ease.

Maximized Efficiency and Cost Savings

FreightPlan’s dynamic load building and order consolidation optimize transportation capacity, reducing empty space and cutting costs, while ensuring efficient truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) moves. 

Tailored Shipping
Plans

Generate recommended shipping plans based on user-defined parameters and sophisticated algorithms, optimizing delivery deadlines, transportation costs, and service standards. 

Improved Customer
Satisfaction

FreightPlan integrates customer delivery requirements, ensuring shipments are customized to meet the unique needs of each recipient, boosting satisfaction and loyalty. 

Optimized Routing

FreightPlan analyzes routes to ensure shipments follow the most efficient geographic path, optimizing time and reducing transportation costs. 

Seamless Online Review and Approval

The online review feature allows users to easily compare alternative shipping plans, facilitating informed decision-making and improving collaboration within teams.

Compliance with Service Standards and Routing Guides

FreightPlan ensures that all shipments meet specific delivery requirements, arrive on time, and comply with routing guides, supporting consistent customer service and operational efficiency. 


Level-up Your LTL/FTL Load Planning and Consolidation with Varsity Logistics.

FreightPlan is just one of several specialized modules that Varsity Logistics offers for its multi-carrier shipping software. Schedule a demo with a Varsity Shipping Specialist to learn how we can optimize your parcel, LTL and FTL shipping processes today.

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