You're Shopping for a TMS. What You Actually Need Is Already Losing You Money.
Most companies discover their freight audit problem while evaluating a TMS. The TMS takes 6-12 months to go live. Freehand deploys in 6-14 weeks, requires no TMS software or transportation management system integration, and generates ROI before your TMS selection is even finished.
Deploy Freehand First. Connect to Your TMS When It Is Ready.
Freehand's AI Teams deploy in 6-14 weeks with no TMS or TMS software required. Email-based invoice ingestion covers all carrier formats from day one. The freight audit ROI appears in the first billing cycle before your transportation management system goes live.
Freight Audit & Pay Weeks 1-14
Approved invoices are validated against contracted rates, shipment actuals, and accessorial rules. Every discrepancy flagged before payment. First recoveries in the first billing cycle. No TMS integration required.
GL Coding & Cost Allocation
The GL Coding Agent assigns cost centers, GL accounts, and business units based on rules mapped to your chart of accounts. Complex cost splits across divisions, brands, and geographies, handled at invoice time, before the TMS software is even live.
Real-Time Freight Accruals
Freight costs are accrued at tender and updated as shipments move. The Accrual & Forecast Agent reconciles actuals against accruals when invoices arrive. Finance has a live view of freight liability at any point in the month.
ERP Payment Disbursement
The Payment Orchestration Agent generates payment files in your ERP's required format and pushes them directly to SAP, Oracle Cloud ERP, Oracle JDE, or NetSuite via native connectors.
TMS-Ready Spend Intelligence
The Spend Intelligence Agent classifies every payment by mode, carrier, cost center, and charge type, giving Finance a finance-grade spend view that becomes the data foundation for your TMS selection.
Duplicate & Anomaly Detection
The Anomaly Detection Agent blocks duplicate submissions across PRO and BOL variants before disbursement. Every payment is backed by a complete audit trail invoice, shipment, rate, approval, and payment record.
FAP Before TMS Is Not a Compromise. It Is the Smarter Sequence.
The difference is not incremental. Every day without freight audit is a day carriers bill what they want. Freehand stops that before any TMS goes live.
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Measurable Outcomes from Week One
Outcomes measured from live deployments across Fortune 100 enterprises.
GL coding and cost allocation run automatically. Finance closes the month on accurate data.
Accruals update in real time as shipments move. Finance has a verified view of freight liability at any point, not an estimate built at month-end.
Carrier payments go out on time. Carrier escalations, capacity disputes, and service tier downgrades are prevented before they start.
Every payment is traceable invoice, shipment data, contracted rate, approval workflow, and payment record in one place.
Compliant invoices require no handoffs. Exceptions are categorized, routed, and resolved in days.
Freight spend data is classified and finance-grade, available at any point in the month from a single view.
$14M Recovered. 100% Coverage. Same Team.
Real outcomes from enterprises that deployed Freehand before or alongside their TMS software.
Built to Deploy Before or Alongside Any TMS
Every capability needed to close the freight finance gap whether your TMS software is live, in evaluation, or not yet selected.
Automated Invoice Approval Workflows
Configurable thresholds route invoices directly to payment or secondary review. Compliant invoices never touch a human desk, straight-through processing from day one.
GL Coding & Cost Allocation
Freight costs coded to the correct GL account, cost center, and business unit automatically. Multi-dimensional allocation handles complex splits across divisions, brands, and geographies.
Live Accruals & Forecasting
Costs accrued at tender, updated as shipments move, reconciled at invoice time. Finance has an accurate liability view at any point in the month, not an estimate built at close.
Early Payment & Discount Capture
Freehand captures early payment discounts across the carrier network automatically. Payment performance tracked per carrier for contract negotiations.
Complete Audit Trail & Controls
Every payment backed by a full audit trail invoice, shipment data, contracted rate, approval workflow, and disbursement confirmation, in one place, always queryable.
Duplicate & Anomaly Detection
Every invoice is checked against prior submissions across PRO and BOL variants before disbursement. Duplicates are blocked automatically, recovery is never needed after the fact.
Native ERP Integration
Connectors to SAP, Oracle Cloud ERP, Oracle JDE, and NetSuite. Payment files generated in your ERP's required format and pushed directly via API or EDI.
TMS-Agnostic Integration
Connects to Oracle TMS, Blue Yonder, MercuryGate, Manhattan, or e2open. No rip-and-replace. No TMS migration required to go live.
Multi-Entity & Multi-Currency
Payment orchestration across currencies, legal entities, and geographies. Exchange rate management and cross-border compliance built in, no manual FX handling required.
Every Industry. Every Mode. One Platform.
Deployed across freight profiles with the highest invoice volume, payment complexity, and GL coding requirements.
Industrial Manufacturing
High freight spend, carrier diversity, tariff and trade compliance exposure
Life Sciences & Pharmaceutical
Regulated freight, temperature-controlled shipments, strict compliance and audit requirements
Healthcare
Time-sensitive shipments, cold chain complexity, high carrier charge variability
Logistics & 3PL
Multi-client invoice management, high volume, margin-sensitive payment cycles
Retail & E-Commerce
High LTL and parcel volume, last-mile billing complexity, peak-season invoice surges
Consumer Electronics
Global parcel and ocean freight, complex accessorial structures, high billing error rates
CPG & FMCG
Multi-modal, high accessorial volume, complex cost allocation across brands and geographies
Retail Grocery
High invoice frequency, regional carrier networks, parcel and LTL cost management
Retail & E-Commerce
High LTL and parcel volume, last-mile billing complexity, peak-season invoice surges
Retail & E-Commerce
High LTL and parcel volume, last-mile billing complexity, peak-season invoice surges
Parcel & Air
DIM weight, zone, surcharge, accessorial & residential fees
LTL / FTL
NMFC classification, fuel surcharge, detention and accessorial
Ocean FCL/LCL
Port fees, B/L charges, BAF/CAF, demurrage
Intermodal & Rail
Multi-leg cost allocation, drayage validation
Last-Mile
Per-stop, zone-based & weight-break charge
Multi-Modal
Cross-mode cost allocation & GL mapping
Meet the Agents Auditing Your Freight Before Your TMS Goes Live
TMS software and transportation management system platforms handle execution. Freight invoice audit, GL coding, disbursement, and accruals still run manually at most enterprises. Freehand deploys AI Teams that own every finance step with or without a TMS.
Invoice Audit Agent
Validates every freight invoice against contracted rates, shipment actuals, and accessorial entitlement rules. Every discrepancy flagged before payment. No TMS integration required to start auditing.
GL Coding Agent
Assigns cost centers, GL accounts, and business units using rules mapped to your chart of accounts. Complex cost splits across divisions, brands, and geographies handled at invoice time.
Payment Orchestration Agent
Generates payment files and manages disbursement workflows to your ERP. Handles carrier payment runs across modes and geographies. Pushes directly to SAP, Oracle, JDE, or NetSuite.
Spend Intelligence Agent
Delivers real-time visibility into freight spend across modes, lanes, carriers, and cost centers. Classifies every payment into a finance-grade data layer that becomes the foundation for your TMS selection.