3PL Solutions

Technology is essential to manage the complex processes of a 3PL

With today's increasingly complex business and logistics environment, companies are demanding that their outsourced service provider deliver flawlessly, not only with operational, execution excellence, but also with real-time, event-oriented information management.

MercuryGate TMS allows 3PLs to support multiple business models with varying processes from a single platform. MercuryGate TMS leverages transportation across multiple customers, reducing costs and maximizing profits. Regardless of mode, costs can be appropriately allocated to each customer's shipment making sure that margins are determined. 3PL's can use different business models, such as buy/sell, gain share, management fee, and brokerage, all with the MercuryGate TMS.

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Figure 1: Configurable customer portal provides information and value to your clients.

By establishing a state-of-the-art, Internet-based, transportation and logistics technology foundation, you can do away with manual and inaccurate processes. Using MercuryGate’s ezClick Architecture, complex processes are broken into easy to manage workflow steps. EzClick simplifies the user’s system interaction, reduces training time and makes it easier to monitor the processes and to identify choke points.

MercuryGate TMS is an information system dedicated to capturing and monitoring the activities and events related to transportation and logistics.  From this logistics “nervous system”, real-time information flows between you, your customers and their associated business partners in their supply chain – giving you the ability to monitor and manage your business.  

MercuryGate TMS offers 3PLs the ability to:

  • Sell, Implement and Board New Clients Rapidly
  • Procure Rates from Carriers
  • Manage Carrier & Rates
  • Optimize Loads
  • Broker Shipments
  • Manage International Shipments
  • Move and Track Shipments
  • Settle Loads & Allocate Costs
  • Invoice Customers
  • Receive Transportation Analytics
  • Deploy in the Cloud or On-Premise

MercuryGate does all this while reducing your risk to implement the TMS. There is no need to pay for the solution until you are up and running live in production and are satisfied that the solution will meet your needs. That is how confident we are that you will be successful with the MercuryGate TMS solution!

Read more about MercuryGate 3PL Solution primary functions.