Managed Transportation - Ascent Global Logistics

Managed Transportation

Ascent coordinates each detail of your freight’s movement, from sourcing to invoice. Our team handles all routing and mode decisions for your shipments, allowing you to focus on strategic initiatives.

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Why We Excel

We are a team of dedicated logistics professionals specializing in continuous process improvement, transportation management, freight audit and payment and consultation. We are a customer-centric organization with over 180 years of combined experience in the transportation industry. Ascent was built upon a hybrid of unique entrepreneur stories with two underlining commonalities: a promise of providing premium customer service and the goal to build exceptional trust with our customers.

Continuous Improvement Process

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Management Reporting
Proprietary database of your information that delivers actionable intelligence and reports as well as a real-time overview of transportation information.
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Rate Negotiations
Ascent leverages our consortium spend to achieve pricing levels our customers typically can’t achieve on their own.
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Audit and Pay
Ascent ensures that the rates, where negotiated, are the rates you pay.
100% transparency to the carrier invoices across all modes.
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Technology
Real-time, web-based TMS to allow visibility to key decision makers in your organization.

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Solutions Consultant

Trusted advisor who learns about your unique business and builds a customized solution.

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Key Account Manager

Day-to-day contact who engrains themselves with your team and helps to review new opportunities for improvement.

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Freight Audit Specialist

Understands your unique shipping characteristics, carriers, commodities and requirements.

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Operations Specialist Team

Provides daily backup to your team, vendors and customers, as well as training education and support.

12%
Ascent Average FSC FH
9%
Average Bills Identified as Incorrectly Invoiced
5.8%
Ascent Average LTL Savings
3.2%
Ascent Average Price Increase

ERP Integrations

You can use our PEAK Connect endpoints to integrate your legacy system directly into the same technology backbone as our PEAK web portal. Our transportation management API seamlessly integrates the power of PEAK’s features into your ERP, WMS and other systems to maximize efficiencies and reduce costs.

Rate
Retrieve
Carrier rates, accessorial costs, transit times
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Stored costs and carrier
Ability to accrue for freight
Shipment
Trigger
Generate BOL and shipping label
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BOL accuracy and uniformity
Ascent has visibility to loads
Tender
Trigger
Send data to carrier for pickup
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Electronic confirmation number
One integration point
Track
Automatically
Receive routine carrier updates through to delivery
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Visibility to inbound and outbound
Exception Reporting

Is Managed Transportation Right for You?

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Assessment
Show us the good, the bad and the ugly
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Demo
Let us take you for a test drive
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Documents
Agree to proceed
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Results
This is our opportunity to wow you
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Execute and Implement
From signing to savings, we’ve got you covered!

Ready to Get Started?

Here’s What We Need.

  • One month’s worth of invoices, including all modes, locations and products shipped and received
  • Photos of product ready to ship and as received, including any special handling
  • Signed MNDA to protect both parties

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