Green Mountain Technology: Streamlining Retail Spend Management

Retailers are turning to e-commerce to increase productivity and reduce costs. They are leveraging various shipment networks to meet customers’ faster, same-day delivery demands. The transition to less-than-truckload (LTL) e-commerce has made foresighted retailers a dominant force in the distribution segment. But they need help organizing carriers and managing expenses.

This is where Green Mountain Technology (GMT) comes to the rescue.

GMT, founded in 1999, brings innovation and technology together to create a truly powerful and unmatched parcel and LTL spend management platform. Nearly 25 years of experience has shaped and tested their proven processes for the audit and pay, cost allocation, and overall strategic management of your transportation network, including using their unrivaled market intelligence to support carrier contract strategy.

“Many shippers do not have the tools to rerate a large amount of data. Even when they try with small datasets, errors generate and extrapolate as the datasets expand over a year. We help them analyze a large set of data at once, with zero errors,” says Jim Jacobs, co-founder and CCO of GMT.

Insights drawn by GMT from massive datasets enable clients to develop strategies for meeting their transportation goals, such as more efficient or lower cost shipping. No small feat: GMT often helps its shippers identify the most impactful goals for their business, and then helps their customers leverage their data to make the best decisions.

Their RFP and contract strategy solution is a great example of this partnership approach. When a shipper receives a new carrier proposal, GMT’s powerful technology quickly assesses the proposal in its entirety and rerates the shipper’s past volume to understand the full effect. GMT models proposals, down-to-the-penny, budgeting complex situations (and sometimes even imaginary distribution centers), so shippers don’t have to rely on assumptions when making the final decision.