Smarter freight execution, powered by real-time visibility and seamless integration. 

At Mariner, Managed Transportation isn’t just a service, it’s a strategic partnership built around performance,
transparency, and adaptability. We act as an extension of your team, managing the daily movement of freight
across your network while continuously optimizing cost, service, and scalability. 
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Whether you’re shipping internationally by air or ocean, ensuring accurate quote details and
understanding the specific terms for imports and exports is essential. Mariner International is here to
support and we have provided the following tips below to help.
Execute Daily Freight Operations
  • We co-manage everything from routing and mode selection to tendering, carrier communication, and exception resolution.
  •  Our team ensures on-time delivery and SLA performance through proactive monitoring and adaptive routing.
Track & Report in Real Time
  • Mariner Live delivers real-time visibility across all shipment activity through configurable alerts, dashboards, and performance metrics. 
  • View lane-level costs, on-time percentages, dwell times, and carrier performance from a single screen
Mariner Live Integration 
  • Mariner Live is your digital hub, integrating into systems, carriers, and customers via EDI, API, XML, SFTP, AS2, and more.
  • Mariner Live is the single source of truth for your transportation data, consolidating real-time shipment status, documentation, billing, and KPIs
Refine, Optimize & Scale 
  • With a continuous feedback loop, we use data from Mariner Live to fine-tune routing guides, consolidate loads, shift modes, and reduce costs.
  • As your business grows, our model scales, with no added overhead, just increased velocity and clarity.

Order-to-Cash (O2C) 

Mariner uses the Order-to-Cash (O2C) framework to evaluate the full journey of a shipment;
from the moment an order is placed to the point payment is received.  
Order Management
How are shipments initiated and processed? 
Execution & Visibility
How do you handle tracking and tracing? (In many cases, this step is missing — and we offer tools to fill that gap.)
Carrier Strategy:
Do you manage your own carrier network or outsource it? 
Freight Audit & Payment:
Are invoices audited internally, through a third party, or not at all? Could those resources be reallocated if audit and payment were automated or included in your service? 
By analyzing each stage in the O2C cycle, we uncover opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce manual workload, and create soft cost savings—often by leveraging tools or services already included in our offering. It’s a strategic way to align operations, finance, and logistics under one continuous improvement lens. 

The Mariner Managed Transportation
Lifecyle 

The Mariner Managed Transportation
Lifecyle 
Shipment planning, dispatch, tracking, and issue
management daily. 
Mariner Live platform access
Visibility, documentation, analytics, and
integration tools in one unified system.
Data-driven optimization
Real-time and historical analytics drive smarter
routing and reduce total freight spend.
Automated freight audit & payment
Invoice verification, accrual tracking, and freight
payment are handled seamlessly
Automated procurement
A transformative, automated digital tool powered by Mariner Vibe AI technology to streamline how shippers handle truckload freight, particularly in the spot market.
Carrier performance management
Scorecards, benchmarking, and corrective actions
to drive process improvements
Warehousing fulfillment
Mariner offers comprehensive warehousing and
solutions
designed to support high-growth companies
Automated Procurement: A Modern Freight
Optimization Tool 
Mariner Automated Procurement is a transformative digital tool designed to streamline how shippers handle truckload freight, particularly in the spot market. Leveraging Mariner Vibe AI technology, the tool resembles a digital freight broker, but with more structure, transparency, and control. Mariner automates the traditional procurement process, making freight management faster, smarter, and more cost-effective. 
What It Does 
At its core, Automated Procurement allows shippers to feed their truckload freight needs directly into the system. From there, the tool runs an automated procurement event, handling quote requests, carrier engagement, bid optimization, and award decisions with human-in-the-loop guidance from your Mariner support team. It replicates the strategic functions of a broker, but within a controlled, rules-based framework that supports both flexibility and corporate governance.

The Problem It Solves

Today, many shippers default to pushing spot freight into the broker market, often due to time constraints or lack of internal resources. This creates inefficiency.As a result, valuable transportation dollars and strategic freight decisions are effectively made redundant through reactive processes. Automated Procurement solves this by introducing structure to the spot freight process, allowing companies to: 
  • Lack of transparency: Pricing can be unpredictable and opaque.
  • Operational burden: Managing spot loads becomes a time-consuming fire drill. 
  • Reduce dependence on brokers, while maintaining carrier optionality. 
  • Enable governance and reporting: You get visibility into performance, costs, and carrier compliance. 
  • Loss of control: There's limited visibility into how freight is awarded or covered. 
  • Gain control over spot freight through corporate-approved workflows. 
  • Plug seamlessly into existing freight strategies—whether you're running your own transportation team or leveraging a managed transportation provider. 
The tool can be used as a standalone procurement solution or embedded within the Mariner Managed Transportation strategy. If you're using managed trans, this capability is already integrated, Mariner leverages these tools on your behalf, offering both scalability and built-in expertise. 

The Mariner Live Platform- Centralized Hub for Managed Transportation 

Mariner Live is fully embedded in our Managed Transportation program. It connects all your
logistics stakeholders, aligns workflows, and enables: 
Real-time transparency into every shipment
Seamless system integration with your ERP, WMS, and customer platforms 
Centralized documentation for PODs, invoices, routing guides, and freight audit 
On-demand analytics to measure OTIF, spend, performance, and service 
Mariner Live is the engine behind Mariner’s execution discipline—and your path to a smarter, more agile transportation network.
Let’s Simplify, Streamline, and Strengthen Your Freight Strategy 
With Mariner’s Managed Transportation and Mariner Live, you gain a connected, performance-led supply chain operation that works better every day. 
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