Industries · Logistics

Logistics operations, coordinated.

Order intake, carrier coordination, exception escalation, proof of delivery, and freight invoice reconciliation across lanes.

The shape of the operation

Coordination lives in four places. None of them talk.

A typical mid-market logistics operation runs on MercuryGate, Manhattan, or BluJay for the TMS, a WMS for warehouse activity, EDI and email for carrier and customer traffic, and a stack of spreadsheets for lane analysis, freight audit, and KPI reporting. Order intake bounces between channels. Exceptions get logged twice. Freight audit takes a week.

The work the platform removes is not the work the TMS or WMS is supposed to do. It is the coordination between them. That is where shipments stall, customer service degrades, freight cost leaks, and the operations director loses real-time visibility into what is actually moving.

Tool landscape
Typical setup
How data moves

Order to settlement, today.

Customer order to freight invoice payment. Five stages. Each one currently sits in a different system, owned by a different person, updated by hand. This is what we automate first.

  1. Stage 1
    Order
    Customer or system request
  2. Stage 2
    Routing
    Carrier selected, rate confirmed
  3. Stage 3
    Dispatch
    Tendered and accepted
  4. Stage 4
    Tracking
    Status updates and exceptions
  5. Stage 5
    Settlement
    POD logged, invoice reconciled
Where automation lands

Six workflows we automate first.

Identified by dispatchers, account managers, freight audit, and operations directors running the work today. Each one replaces something a person is doing manually. We build them as discrete engagements, in priority order.

Order intake from email and EDI

Customer orders arrive via email, EDI 204, web form, and portal pushes. Navon classifies the order type, validates against the customer master, and opens the shipment record in the TMS with the right account.

Replaces: Dispatchers retyping orders

Carrier routing decision support

Lane history, current rates, and carrier performance surfaced inline when a shipment needs to be tendered. Suggested carrier and rate proposed; the dispatcher still makes the call.

Replaces: Spreadsheet rate lookup

Exception escalation

Late pickups, refused shipments, missed appointments, and ETAs at risk flagged automatically and routed to the right account manager with the customer thread already attached.

Replaces: Watch lists and reactive customer calls

Proof of delivery classification

PODs intake from carrier portals, driver uploads, and email. Classified, matched to the shipment record, and filed automatically. Damage and shortage notations flagged for the claims team.

Replaces: Manual POD chase-ups

Freight invoice reconciliation

Carrier invoices matched against the rate confirmation, accessorials, and POD. Clean matches release for payment. Discrepancies surfaced to the freight auditor with the variance isolated.

Replaces: Line-by-line freight audit

Carrier and lane performance reporting

On-time pickup, on-time delivery, claim rate, and cost-per-mile rolled up by carrier and lane on a schedule. One dashboard the operations director actually opens, instead of stitching together exports.

Replaces: Manual KPI compilation
Where Navon fits

Advisory leads. Automations do the work. The platform hosts it.

For logistics specifically, here is what each practice line looks like.

Advisory

We start in the dispatch queue.

Time with dispatchers, account managers, freight audit, and the operations director. Walk-throughs of order intake, carrier coordination, exception handling, and the freight audit cycle. Written findings, phased plan, operator sign-off before anything gets built.

AI automations

Intake, escalate, reconcile.

Order intake from email and EDI. Carrier routing decision support. Exception escalation for late pickups and at-risk ETAs. POD classification and filing. Freight invoice reconciliation. Each one scoped discretely, sequenced by what saves the most dispatcher time and the most freight cost first.

Platform

The layer underneath.

Orders, shipments, exceptions, PODs, freight invoices. All in one place with structured ownership and customer-level access. Pulls from and writes to MercuryGate, Manhattan, BluJay, your WMS, and EDI feeds. Your existing systems stay.

FAQ

Logistics-specific questions.

The operational questions logistics buyers ask before the first call.

Does this replace our TMS or WMS?

No. MercuryGate, Manhattan, BluJay, JDA, and your WMS stay as systems of record for shipments, inventory, and operations. Navon sits alongside them and removes the coordination work between order intake, carrier communication, exception handling, POD chase-ups, and freight audit that lives in email and spreadsheets today.

How do you handle EDI traffic with carriers and customers?

EDI 204, 990, 214, and 210 are part of the deployment scope when relevant. Most mid-market logistics operations have a mix of EDI, email, and portal interactions with each carrier or customer. The automations handle all three formats and normalize them into a single record per shipment.

Can it handle multi-modal shipments?

Yes. Truckload, LTL, intermodal, drayage, and parcel are configured per lane during deployment. The platform respects the carrier types and accessorial structures already in your TMS rather than imposing a generic shipment model.

What about carrier APIs and tracking integrations?

Direct carrier API integrations and project44 / FourKites style aggregator feeds are pulled in where they exist. Where they do not, the automations parse status updates from email and portals so the visibility gap closes regardless of the carrier's tech maturity.

What does the first engagement usually look like?

An operational audit. We spend time with dispatchers, account managers, freight audit, and the operations director. Walk through order intake, carrier coordination, exception handling, and the freight audit cycle. Written findings, phased plan, sign-off. Usually two to three weeks.

Ready to see this inside your operation?

Start with a conversation. We walk through how your operation runs today and where the gaps are worth fixing first.