Freight audit and pay is like the diet industry. It’s a category that thrives precisely because it never resolves the underlying problem. For 120 years it has reinvented itself without ever fixing the shipment: the payment era, when banks matched invoices to posted rates; the audit era, when gain-share auditors got paid to find the same carrier errors month after month; and the data era, when those invoices became dashboards. Today’s AI audit startups are the last chapter of that story, not a new one. We are now in the fourth era: the control era. Shipping AI makes it possible for a single platform to connect every upstream decision, from delivery promise to carrier selection to execution, evaluate the shipment in real time, and close the financial loop automatically. Only the provider that holds the shipment’s system of record can do this, which is why Shipium is pivotal to this era. Join Scott Luton and Jake Barr alongside Shipium’s Kris Gösser and Tim Meester to learn how the four eras brought us here and how Always-On Audit connects the entire shipment lifecycle from promise to payment, mitigating discrepancies during execution rather than weeks after the invoice is reconciled. Key takeaways…

In today’s world, many industries are recognizing that effective operations are not solely the responsibility of a single organization. Instead, the best outcomes tend to come from effective collaboration with all supply chain partners—including internal operations, channel partners, suppliers, logistics, and global trade providers. The high-tech industry is at the forefront of this trend leveraging control towers to transform its supply chain networks to foster collaboration and decision-making, and better respond to potential disruptions such as delivery delays, supply shortages, and demand signal shifts. In this webinar, we will explore how the high-tech industry is paving the way for future supply chain success and how you can apply this model to your organization. Join our panel of experts to hear about real-world use cases from various industries and discover best practices to achieve true end-to-end visibility and collaboration, enabling you to predict and respond to disruptions and align with strategic objectives.