Transportation Management | Brown Integrated Logistics

Your freight spend
has outgrown your
management infrastructure.

Most transportation problems aren’t carrier problems — they’re network design problems. When your freight volume grew, your carrier management didn’t. The gap shows up as cost overruns, performance inconsistency, and a team that spends its time managing exceptions instead of improving the network.

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No centralized carrier performance data

Multiple carriers, multiple systems, no single view of who’s performing and who isn’t

Mode decisions made by habit, not analysis

The lane runs FTL because it always has — not because FTL is the right mode for that lane today

Carrier procurement is reactive

RFPs happen when contracts expire, not when market conditions favor renegotiation

Transportation spend is unaudited

You’re paying what carriers invoice without a systematic audit against contracted rates

No bandwidth to run a proper carrier RFP

Your team knows the RFP needs to happen but no one has time to build it, run it, and evaluate it properly

Our Transportation Management Capabilities

Strategic oversight.
Operational execution. One partner.

We run the lanes ourselves — which means our network design recommendations come from real operational data, not consulting frameworks.

Mode Optimization & Freight Spend Reduction

We analyze your freight lanes, shipment profiles, and carrier mix to identify mode shifts and consolidation opportunities that reduce per-unit transportation cost without compromising service levels.

Carrier RFP Management & Procurement

We manage the full carrier procurement process — RFP construction, response evaluation, rate benchmarking against market, and contract structuring that creates accountability on both sides.

Carrier Performance Analytics & Reporting

On-time delivery, exception rates, claims ratios, and responsiveness tracked against agreed service levels. Reporting in formats your logistics and finance teams can act on.

Network Design & Lane Optimization

We model your freight network against your customer distribution profile and identify structural improvements — lane consolidations, origin optimization, cross-docking opportunities.

TMS Technology Integration

Load tendering, rate comparison, carrier scorecards, freight audit and payment. For customers who need deeper TMS integration with ERP or WMS, our technology team configures the connection.

Continuous Improvement Loops

Transportation management doesn’t end at go-live. We build quarterly review cycles that identify new optimization opportunities as your network evolves.

Who This Serves

Built for the operations
where failure is not an option.

Mid-market to enterprise shippers with freight spend that has outgrown informal carrier management

Shippers operating with multiple carriers, multiple modes, and no centralized performance data

Supply chain teams spending more time managing transportation exceptions than improving the network

Companies preparing for a carrier RFP but lacking the internal bandwidth to run it well

Operations that want full-service 3PL capability with the attention only a privately owned partner can give

Finance teams who need audit-ready transportation data without manual carrier invoice reconciliation

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Why Brown Logistics Services

Transportation management backed by
60+ years of actually running freight.

60+ years of freight lane and carrier performance data — not consulting frameworks

Integrated with Brown Trucking Company’s asset-based fleet

Mode optimization across owned assets and 15,000+ partner carriers

TMS technology with real-time visibility and freight audit capability

One partner from network analysis through day-to-day execution

Carrier benchmarks reflect what we’re actually paying — not industry averages

Connected Through Brown Integrated Logistics

Transportation
management, backed by an integrated
solution.

Brown Logistics Services manages transportation execution across carriers, modes, and day-to-day shipment activity, giving your team one operating point for planning, coordination, issue resolution, and performance visibility. Through Brown Integrated Logistics, that transportation management support can also connect to dedicated trucking, warehousing, and aviation capabilities when your network requires broader coverage.

You get a team that helps control carrier coordination, shipment flow, and operational follow-through — with access to a broader logistics solutions when complexity increases.

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