Logistics Contract Optimizer analyzes your domestic and international parcel, LTL, and truckload contracts to find every dollar you have been overpaying — and negotiates it back. Choose fixed fee, savings share, or hybrid. Our team of specialists brings more than 20 years of carrier-side experience each, led by a 25-year industry pioneer with $500M in documented client savings and a track record running global parcel RFPs across UPS, FedEx, DHL, Amazon Logistics, and Regional, Global & Domestic Specialists.
No upfront cost. No disruption to operations. No new technology to install. Our team does the work. You keep the savings.
Send us 12 to 24 months of carrier spend data and your current contracts. Secure, confidential, and requires about 30 minutes of your time to get started.
Our specialists analyze every contract clause, rate tier, accessorial structure, and carrier agreement — benchmarking every line against current market rates and identifying every gap where you are overpaying.
We engage your carriers directly — renegotiating rates, restructuring contract terms, and eliminating the overcharges our analysis uncovered — using deep carrier-side expertise built over decades.
Every dollar recovered goes directly to your bottom line. Choose fixed fee, savings share, or hybrid — whichever fits your organization. The structure is flexible. The results are not.
We built our practice on parcel — where the most consistent overpayment occurs. Our team applies that same rigorous approach across LTL, truckload, fuel, analytics, and carrier network strategy — with three pricing options to fit any organization.
FedEx, UPS, DHL, Amazon Logistics, and Regional, Global & Domestic Specialists — domestic and international. Parcel contracts are the most complex in logistics and the largest source of recoverable savings for most companies that ship.
LTL pricing is inconsistent and often above market. We analyze your freight classifications, accessorials, and carrier discount structures to identify and eliminate overpayment.
Spot rates, dedicated lanes, and annual bids. We ensure your truckload agreements reflect current market conditions and protect you from pricing drift between contract cycles.
Fuel surcharges are one of the largest hidden profit generators for FedEx and UPS — collecting 25 to 28 percent of base transportation revenue while actual fuel costs are a fraction of that. We expose the gap and recover it.
Data-driven visibility across your full freight spend. We show you exactly who you are paying, what you are paying for, and where you are consistently overpaying.
The right carrier mix matters as much as the right rate. We evaluate your full carrier network and routing strategy to find savings that a single-contract review would miss.
Global parcel programs aren't a new specialty we're stretching into — they're where a large share of our founder's 25-year track record was built. UPS, FedEx, DHL, Amazon Logistics, and Regional, Global & Domestic Specialists, across dozens of countries, is territory we know cold.
This isn't a new specialty we're bolting on for one RFP. Global parcel bids — spanning UPS, FedEx, DHL, Amazon Logistics, and regional, global, and domestic specialists across a dozen-plus countries — have been part of our practice for more than 25 years. When a client's carrier mix includes international volume, we don't bring in a subcontractor to cover the gap. We already know the terrain.
What started as a cost reimbursement tool has evolved into a margin protection lever, a yield management mechanism, and one of the most profitable — and least scrutinized — revenue streams for FedEx and UPS. Most companies have never seriously questioned it.
Changing fuel table structures, limiting fuel applicability, excluding accessorials from fuel, and optimizing zone and service mix can create millions in savings for high-volume shippers. Very few people understand carrier surcharge architecture at this level. Our team does. That is why fuel surcharge optimization is one of the highest-return services we offer — and why it is included in every parcel contract engagement we conduct.
Every member of the Logistics Contract Optimizer team brings more than 20 years of direct experience in carrier pricing, contract negotiation, and freight contract strategy. We are not a franchise network with generalist consultants covering 12 expense categories at once. We are a focused team of industry insiders who have spent careers understanding exactly how carriers build their pricing — and where the savings are hidden.
Our founder pioneered the parcel contract optimization and carrier negotiation service offering in 2001 — well before it was recognized as a defined industry. With more than 25 years leading freight contract practices and helping companies across North America recover hundreds of millions in carrier costs, Logistics Contract Optimizer was built to bring that same expertise to clients as a founder-led, senior-attention practice.
More than 20 years of carrier agreement negotiation and contract strategy for mid-market and enterprise shippers. Deep knowledge of FedEx and UPS pricing structures, accessorial logic, rate tier architecture, and fuel surcharge mechanics. Has led contract renegotiations delivering tens of millions in documented savings across hundreds of client engagements.
Over 22 years focused on LTL and full truckload contract strategy. Brings detailed knowledge of NMFC classification systems, carrier tariff structures, and national carrier pricing models. Has led carrier re-bid processes for shippers ranging from regional distributors to large manufacturers, consistently delivering 10 to 25 percent cost reductions on freight spend.
20 years in transportation data analysis and logistics intelligence. Specializes in converting complex multi-carrier shipping data into clear, actionable insights that drive negotiation strategy and ongoing cost control. Builds the benchmarking models and reporting dashboards that form the analytical foundation of every Logistics Contract Optimizer client engagement.
More than 21 years working directly with major parcel and freight carriers — including time working on the carrier side of the relationship. That experience is what makes our negotiations different. We know how carriers build their pricing, where their flexibility actually exists, and how to have conversations that produce real rate improvements rather than surface-level discounts.
We bring in additional specialists as client engagements require — regional freight experts, telecom contract analysts, and category-specific consultants, each with equivalent depth of experience.
We do not staff your engagement with junior analysts learning the industry. Every person working on your account has spent decades doing this work. That depth is what finds the savings that a generalist firm or a less experienced team will simply miss.
Carrier contracts are deliberately complex. Knowing where flexibility exists, how pricing tiers are structured, and what actually motivates carrier pricing teams requires real insider knowledge. Our team has spent careers building that understanding.
We offer three engagement models — Fixed Fee, Savings Share, or a Hybrid of both — so the structure fits your organization, not the other way around. Whatever model you choose, our team is fully aligned on one goal: delivering the largest possible return to your bottom line.
Most shippers recover 3 to 15 percent of annual freight spend through a professional contract optimization engagement. Use this tool to estimate your opportunity before we talk.
Whether you ship FedEx Ground or manage a national LTL and truckload network, our team has the carrier relationships and benchmark data to find your savings.
FedEx, UPS, USPS, OnTrac, LaserShip, and all regional carriers. Our team built its reputation here — the deepest parcel expertise in the market.
Old Dominion, XPO, Estes, ABF, Saia, and more than 20 regional LTL carriers. Rate benchmarking, classification analysis, and accessorial reduction.
Dry van, flatbed, refrigerated, and intermodal truckload. Lane-level rate benchmarking and annual bid management across all major carriers.
Our process is built to minimize the time we require from you and maximize how quickly we put money back on your bottom line.
A 30-minute conversation to understand your shipping profile, carrier mix, current contracts, and where the biggest opportunities are. No obligation. No sales pitch.
We sign a mutual NDA and you share carrier spend data and contract documents via secure file transfer. We handle all the analysis. You stay focused on your business.
Our team conducts a full analysis of your contracts and benchmarks your rates against current market intelligence across all carriers and freight modes.
We walk you through a clear, line-by-line breakdown of identified savings — contract gaps, benchmark variances, accessorial overcharges, and the total renegotiation opportunity we have found.
With your approval, our team engages carriers directly — renegotiating rates, restructuring contract terms, and eliminating overcharges backed by decades of carrier intelligence.
New rates go into effect and savings begin flowing immediately. We continue monitoring your contracts for carrier-side rate drift, accessorial creep, and new renegotiation opportunities on an ongoing basis.
Carriers overcharge every shipper, in every industry. If you have FedEx, UPS, or LTL contracts, you almost certainly have recoverable savings waiting to be negotiated.
Our team combines 20-plus years of carrier-side expertise with enterprise AI tools to find savings faster, negotiate smarter, and deliver insights no manual process can match. This is not a buzzword — it is how we work every day.
Our AI models scan every clause, rate tier, and accessorial in your carrier contracts — benchmarking every line against current market data and flagging gaps in minutes rather than weeks. Savings from contract optimization alone range from 1 to 15 percent of total carrier spend.
We use AI to compare your carrier contracts against live market rate data, historical benchmarks, and thousands of comparable shipping profiles. The result is a precise, data-backed picture of exactly where your rates are above market — and by how much — before we ever open a negotiation.
Carrier contracts are long, complex, and deliberately difficult to parse. Our AI reads every clause, identifies unfavorable terms, flags automatic rate escalation triggers, and surfaces provisions that put you at a disadvantage — often language buried in exhibits and addenda that a manual review would miss entirely.
AI models analyze market history, fuel price trends, carrier capacity cycles, and macroeconomic signals to forecast where freight rates are heading. We use that intelligence to time renegotiations strategically — locking in favorable rates before market cycles push them higher.
Once your contracts are optimized, AI continues monitoring for rate drift, accessorial creep, and contract compliance failures in real time. Most companies discover that carriers quietly reintroduce overcharges over time. Our AI catches them before they compound into significant losses.
AI-generated carrier scorecards track on-time performance, claim rates, billing accuracy, and cost-per-shipment across every carrier in your network — by lane, by region, by service level. This data becomes leverage in every carrier conversation and ensures you are routing freight to carriers who have earned it.
Before any carrier negotiation, our AI builds a real-world, carrier-specific strategy — identifying the exact rate tiers, accessorial categories, lane bundles, and volume commitments most likely to produce concessions from each individual carrier. Our team then reviews every output: validating the data, stress-testing the strategy, setting a negotiation timeline, defining clear next steps, and preparing fallback positions for every scenario. We walk into every carrier conversation knowing their pricing model better than most of their own account teams do. That intelligence — combined with 25 years of relationship capital — is what produces results that a standard contract firm simply cannot deliver.
AI analyzes your full freight spend across parcel, LTL, truckload, and intermodal simultaneously — identifying mode shift opportunities where moving freight from one mode to another produces cost savings without service impact. Most shippers have significant hidden opportunity here that only becomes visible at scale.
AI transforms raw carrier data into clear, visual executive dashboards — showing total spend by carrier, mode, lane, and business unit, alongside savings delivered and opportunities remaining. CFOs and supply chain leaders get the visibility they need to make decisions, without spending weeks building reports manually.
We use leading enterprise-grade AI tools for contract analysis, rate benchmarking, and spend analytics. Your data is handled under strict confidentiality agreements and is never used to train third-party AI models. The AI accelerates and enhances our work — but every recommendation, negotiation, and outcome is reviewed and executed by our team of human specialists with more than 20 years of carrier experience each. AI finds the gaps. Our team delivers the savings.
This is an example walkthrough of the Logistics Contract Optimizer AI platform — built with fictional, illustrative shipper data for demonstration purposes. Every number, alert, and insight shown here represents the type of analysis we run on day one of a real engagement.
This dashboard is built from anonymized real-world shipper data. Your actual platform is populated from your contracts and spend data on day one of your engagement.
See This With Your Own Data →Every organization is different. We offer three engagement structures so you can choose the model that fits your budget, internal requirements, and procurement process.
Our fee is a percentage of the savings we identify and deliver. If we don’t save you money, you owe us nothing. Pure performance alignment — our interests and yours are identical.
A single agreed-upon project fee based on the scope of your engagement. Full cost predictability, complete transparency. Every dollar of savings goes directly to you.
A modest fixed project fee covers the analysis and strategy work, paired with a smaller performance share on savings delivered. Shared investment. Shared upside.
Parcel contracts. LTL agreements. Truckload rates. Fixed fee, savings share, or hybrid — choose what fits.
Schedule a free 30-minute discovery call. No obligation. No prep required. Just a conversation about your freight spend and what our team can find for you.