Cargo, Transport & Logistics

Move With The Market

Respond in real-time and maximize profitability with an end-to-end pricing and quoting platform custom-built for cargo, transport, and logistics.

Less Guesswork. More Growth.

Manual processes and outdated tools slow you down, making it harder to keep up with market shifts and customer demands. With features like neural network-powered pricing, a real-time pricing engine, logistics and routing integrations, capacity aware optimization, and custom spot-quoting workflows, PROS gives you the speed, intelligence, and flexibility to price and quote with confidence.

Air Cargo
Full Truckload (FTL)
Less Than Truckload (LTL)
Third-Party Logistics (3PL)
Railroad Freight

Air Cargo

Pricing at the Speed of Flight

In an industry reliant on last-minute bookings, real-time dynamic pricing is the key to profitability. The PROS AI-powered platform helps you provide customers fast, seamless booking experiences with real-time, dynamic pricing, so you can drive profitability.

Enhance agility and scalability by using AI to extract meaningful insights from a more complete data set.
Refine capacity management with the help of our Capacity Aware Optimization algorithm.
Integrate selling and pricing seamlessly with revenue management for enhanced decision-making.

Full Truckload (FTL)

Driving Efficiency & Profitability

Driver shortages, delivery delays, increased operational costs, and changing customer demands are challenges the FTL sector struggles with daily. PROS can help you get a better understanding of your profit margins and overcome staffing shortages, regulations, and economic volatility.

Enhance operational efficiency by streamlining pricing and selling processes.
Meet changing customer demands through digital transformation and fast, reliable deliveries.
Handle volatility with AI insights and predictions, to maintain consistent profitability.
Make every deal more profitable by implementing real-time dynamic pricing.

Less Than Truckload (LTL)

Delivering Speed & Performance

The demand for efficient and reliable LTL services is higher than ever. To stay ahead of the competition, you have to meet consumer expectations for faster, more reliable deliveries. PROS can help optimize your packaging operations and improve service levels through real-time data analysis.

Move to a centralized source of truth for pricing and transaction data management.
Help prevent margin leakage with pricing governance and get prices out the door quicker with more constraints designed to protect the bottom line.
Use AI to help you maximize space and win more deals.
Overcome segmentation limits in optimized pricing with PROS Smart Price Optimization & Management neural network-based algorithms.

Third-Party Logistics (3PL)

Navigating Challenges with Ease

3PL carriers have to handle changes in fuel costs, inclement weather, geopolitical issues, and workforce shortages to remain ahead of the competition. We’re here to help you by providing innovative solutions to solve all these problems.

Stay competitive in a crowded market by using the pricing envelope (floor, target, and ceiling) to help you lower prices without sacrificing profits.
Proactively manage supply chain disruptions by consolidating data and moving away from spreadsheets.
Easily manage inventory and get quotes and shipments out the door faster with the PROS Smart CPQ catalog and constraints-based engine.

Railroad Freight

Keeping You on the Right Track

Railroad freight companies face fluctuating demand, changing external market conditions, and volatile fuel costs, among other obstacles. PROS can help you overcome these challenges and price with ease and accuracy.

Drive profitability by making data-driven decisions with ease and accuracy with Smart Price Optimization.
Seize more revenue opportunities by delivering tailored prices for products and services with Capacity Aware Optimization.
Improve overall efficiency by centralizing the management of rebates and agreements in the same place as pricing.

Smart Price Optimization & Management

Boost your financial performance with PROS Smart POM, designed to optimize rates, payables, and profit margins. Align your pricing strategies with customer willingness to pay for maximum revenue. Discover new revenue opportunities through forecasting and network optimization, and stay competitive by using real-time data analytics to track market actions.

Smart Configure Price Quote (CPQ)

Gain real-time, actionable business insights with PROS Smart CPQ. Analyze customer trends, competitor pricing, and demand to identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities. Accelerate sales with automatic responses to customer requests, whether spot-quotes, 10,000 O&D line item quotes, agreements, or contracts—with prices designed to win.

Capacity-Aware Optimization

Boost revenue based on available capacity and reduce your dependence on traditional demand forecasts. Available as an add-on to Smart Price Optimization, Capacity-Aware Optimization helps you adapt to market changes quickly, maintain profitability, and improve customer satisfaction by helping you ensure timely deliveries.

PROS Platform for eCommerce

Create a seamless online and offline shopping experience with the PROS Platform for eCommerce. Identify the appropriate services for each customer, provide AI-recommended alternative shipping options, and allow for quick configuration of custom offerings. Provide fast, personalized online pricing through dynamic real-time rates that incorporate the latest market data, costs, and competitive information.

The challenge that we are solving with PROS is to move away from one size fits all pricing towards dynamic pricing. This is a key requirement for us to really take the next step on our self-service platform and enable real-time pricing. PROS has helped us do this, not just with dynamic pricing, but also with dynamic pricing that is based on willingness-to-pay.

Florent Bonello

VP Cargo Revenue Management & Pricing

Integrations

Our solutions easily integrate with your current tech stack, ensuring a smooth transition so you can start realizing benefits quickly.

Transportation & Logistics Accelerator

Improve your quoting and pricing processes with the Transportation & Logistics Accelerator, an add-on to the PROS Platform. It connects with Smart CPQ and Smart POM to provide you with tools designed specifically for the cargo, transport, and logistics industry.

Easy-to-use Workflows

Access real-time pricing information easily with purpose-built spot quoting workflows and logistics and routing service layers.

Enhanced Operations

Implement updates and enhancements more smoothly across your operations, instead of investing money and time to build processes from scratch.

Book a Demo With An Outperformance Expert

Meet with a PROS professional. Put the product — and our service — to the test. Together, we’ll help your company perform to its potential.

FAQs

Can PROS connect to my ERP or Transportation Management System (TMS)?

Yes, PROS has a purpose-built suite of APIs for cargo, transport, and logistics customers through buildwith.pros.com. We are confident in our connection to your systems.

My business has very large, complex quotes. Can PROS handle this scale?

Yes, PROS Smart CPQ can generate quotes with up to 10,000 line items without negative impacts to speed or performance.

How does PROS pricing solution differ from transportation costing systems?

While your Cost Intelligence System (CIS) focuses on understanding and managing costs, our pricing solution is designed to set the best prices to maximize profits. We view CIS’s as one part of the pricing equation. If you have a CIS in place, PROS can take that data, feed it into our pricing engine, and then provide a recommended price.

Does PROS have proven success in Air Cargo?

Yes, PROS powers pricing for more than 40% of the world’s top air cargo carriers.

Additional Resources

The PROS Platform for the Transportation and Logistics Industry

With the rise of eCommerce, web, and digital selling channels in the Transportation and Logistics (T&L) industry, organizations are facing significant challenges in pricing and selling.

Demo: PROS in the Transportation & Logistics Industry

Watch how PROS enables transportation & logistics companies to provide the right price, for the right service, at the right time.

Transportation & Logistics Executive Brief

Learn how to achieve an average 1-3% impact on price, 2-5% impact on win rate and 20-40% impact on productivity.

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