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nVision Global
Expert Freight Management Solutions to Optimize Supply Chains

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Organizations rely on robust technology, meticulous data management, and strict financial controls to streamline freight audit and payment processes and improve supply chain decision-making. Strategically pairing technology with exceptional service is critical to enhancing customer and partner relationships and achieving success in this competitive landscape.

As the preferred global freight management solutions and services provider, nVision Global helps clients realize this objective with its industry-leading technology solutions and unparalleled service. nVision Global specializes in freight audit and payment, order management, supplier management, visibility, transportation management system, and freight spend analytics solutions, which are mutually beneficial and result in year-over-year verifiable bottom-line savings.

“We ensure no customer spends more in service fees than they realize in savings. We believe our extensive customer base, many of whom have been with us for more than 15 years, have come to realize the value proposition of our cost-effective technology,” says Keith Snavely, senior VP of nVision Global.

Tech-Driven Solutions for Today’s Problems

Of the numerous differentiating features nVision Global has to offer, the most compelling one is that it operates a single, proprietary, configurable processing application throughout all seven of its corporate-owned, strategically placed, full-service processing centers. This gives nVision Global the ability to process, rate, audit, code general ledger accounts, and remit payment for all transportationrelated invoices without the need to consolidate disparate databases.

nVision Global has worked diligently over the years to develop the tools and technology that provide customers with a single, global, cleansed, and normalized data warehouse of their transportation activity with industry-leading analytics tools that allow them to optimize and streamline their global supply chains, resulting in improved bottom lines. On top of that, the systems are adept at capturing line-item detail-level data to provide superior operational business intelligence.

With its global operating platform, nVision Global adopts a regional approach to provide customers with exceptional service across multiple time zones in different languages. Its processing application incorporates all aspects of a customer’s negotiated contracts, rate cards, and tariffs while programmatically providing complex account allocations and the visibility customers expect.

This functionality proved to be highly beneficial for Teradyne, a leading supplier of automatic test equipment and interconnection systems. When Teradyne contracted with nVision, the challenge was to efficiently manage the global freight invoices for transportation providers in multiple countries in different currencies, including Mexican pesos, Japanese yen, Korean won, and U.S. dollars, for multiple Teradyne divisions.

They wanted a global solution that would allow them to roll up the total spend of each division and the volume handled by each service provider into one global database with real-time visibility. This would allow Teradyne to reduce the number of suppliers, optimally serve customers, and achieve savings through freight invoice audit and reduction of internal administrative and transport costs.

The global invoice audit and payment solution by nVision Global was instrumental in allowing the company to reap maximum benefits of the objectives defined in their project scope. nVision also provides supply chain solutions that go beyond processing and paying invoices. Through the utilization of nVision Global’s web-based applications, Teradyne was able to realize year-over-year savings, supply chain efficiencies, and productivity gains.

“We live by the premise, ‘today’s differentiating features are tomorrow’s minimum expectations’,” says Snavely.

nVision Global makes a difference in the global freight audit and payment space by not only adding efficiencies to its core functions but through the many enhancements that go beyond the traditional offering, including collaboration tools for effective final resolution of invoices errors, valueadded tax-compliant EDI images for every electronic shipment, to machine learning (ML) technology that precludes reoccurring invoice exceptions.


The True Freight Audit and Payment Partner

In today’s tough economic times, every company is poised to do more with less. nVision Global acts as an extension of its customers’ logistics and accounting departments, providing technology and solutions.


Our commitment is to provide our customers and their transportation providers with responsiveness that is unprecedented in our industry

The team strongly believes that it is important to continually engage with customers and their transportation providers to build relevant, meaningful, and cost-saving solutions. By holding quarterly business reviews, nVision Global ensures that it meets their current and future requirements. The dynamically customized solutions fit customers’ specialized requirements and grow with their continuously changing needs. It also maximizes the efficiency of international services to ensure a positive return on customers’ logistics spend.

“Our commitment is to provide our customers and their transportation providers with responsiveness that is unprecedented in our industry,” Snavely says. “We are dedicated to this philosophy because we understand that a successful relationship depends on the delivery of technology and a strong focus on quality, f lexible processes, unparalleled service, and global business intelligence.”

Striding ahead, nVision Global anticipates continued expansion of its global freight management analytics tool and ML capabilities to proactively identify and eliminate exceptions, as well as the addition of superior products and services that go beyond the traditional freight audit and payment offering.

Deep Dive

Freight Audit For Transportation Spend Control

Freight billing challenges are not always immediately visible. More often, the problems are subtle. A duplicate charge slips through approval, a fuel surcharge is applied using the wrong rule, a carrier invoice does not match the contracted terms, or an accessorial charge remains unresolved until paying it seems easier than disputing it. For enterprises running across more countries, currencies, carrier systems and invoice formats, freight audit and payment has moved well beyond clerical review. It now sits close to the finance controls that protect margin and the transportation data that shapes sourcing decisions. The buying problem starts with invoice complexity. Base rates, fuel, accessorial, duties, detention charges and modespecific rules do not arrive in a clean format. They come through various transportation methods, documents and regional billing practices. A good freight audit partner should do much more than just identify billing errors. They should collect data, structure it in a meaningful way, validate it against the contract, and route exceptions to ensure that weak charges don’t turn into paid charges. Speed is important, but speed without controls only causes leakage. Secondly, fragmented data brings up another point of pressure. Freight movement records will be part of the transport process, contracts in procurement documents, invoices in the finance queue and approvals in emails. Finance teams need to know how to manage their payments and accruals. The logistics teams need lane-level detail and carrier performance, while the procurement teams need data audit in order to negotiate prices instead of complaints. The stronger provider helps transform freight bills into a reliable record of what happened, what was charged and where attention is needed. Global operations add another layer of complexity. Regional freight auditing requires more than just access to the software. Tax rules, local billing practices, language requirements and e-invoicing mandates can alter how invoices should be read and processed. A centralized platform without strong regional expertise can still leave teams handling exceptions manually. A more effective approach combines consistent audit rules with local knowledge, allowing multinational shippers to maintain a unified view of transportation spend while accounting for the unique requirements of each market. “nVision Global gives finance and logistics teams a clearer, more effective way to see, validate and manage transportation spend before errors become embedded in the cost base.” The same logic applies before and after payment. Audit catches errors, but transportation spend control improves when estimated shipment cost, provider selection and invoice validation stay connected. Pre-shipment rating can show the financial implication of a routing choice before it becomes an invoice. The post-audit analysis uncovers where the exceptions persist. The claims process may regain value after service problems occur. None of these aspects should function outside of the audit trail if the goal is cost control and not invoicing. For enterprises evaluating this space, nVision Global stands out as a practical and well-rounded choice. It brings together freight audit and payment with IMPACT TMS, nSure AI, nSight Analytics and Business Intelligence, nConnect, freight claims, procurement tools and managed services in a single connected ecosystem. The platform is particularly well suited for global shippers that need invoice capture, duplicate detection, contract validation, exception workflows, e-invoicing support and audited freight data working together seamlessly. What makes nVision Global compelling is not simply the technology it offers, but how well those capabilities align with real operational processes. It gives finance and logistics teams a clearer, more effective way to see, validate and manage transportation spend before errors become embedded in the cost base. ...Read more
Top 10 Freight Audit and Payment Solutions Companies – 2023

Company
nVision Global

Management
Keith Snavely, Senior VP

Description
nVision Global specializes in freight audit & payment, order management, supplier management, visibility, transportation management system, and freight spend analytics solutions, which are mutually beneficial and result in year-over-year verifiable bottom line savings