For Buyers · TMS
The right TMS, chosen on fit, not marketing.
Selecting a transportation management system is a high-stakes, hard-to-reverse decision, and the usual sources do not help. PreShiftIQ matches buyers across the freight ecosystem, shippers, brokers, carriers, and 3PLs, to the TMS products that actually fit their requirements, using interview-validated scorecards and a matching engine that answers to you. The buyer match is free.
Reviews and rankings were not built for you.
Review sites reward the vendors who work them hardest. Analyst rankings are shaped by the vendors being ranked. Every source a buyer reaches for has someone else's incentive behind it, and the cost of choosing wrong lands entirely on the buyer: a failed implementation, a system that does not fit, and the cost of doing it all again.
This is not a rare outcome. In Panorama Consulting's enterprise software research, more than half of implementations run over budget, and many organizations realize only a fraction of the benefits they expected. The gap between a system that fits and one that nearly fits is measured in years and budgets.
PreShiftIQ is the independent alternative. We work for the buyer, we validate through interviews rather than reviews, and we exclude the vendors that cannot serve you before you ever see a shortlist.
What you get
A shortlist matched to your requirements
Not the vendors who paid the most. The vendors that fit what you actually need, ranked on measured fit against your stated requirements.
Interview-validated scorecards
Vendor capability is validated through structured interviews, not self-reported marketing claims, so your shortlist reflects reality.
Vendors who arrive prepared
The vendors you connect with already have your requirements in hand, so discovery starts where it usually ends. Better conversations, faster, and stronger cost avoidance on the decision itself.
How it works
- Complete a structured assessment of your TMS requirements, including your non-negotiables.
- Get matched on measured fit. Vendors that cannot meet your hard requirements are excluded before scoring begins.
- Connect with a shortlist of qualified vendors who arrive at discovery already prepared.
The buyer match is free. You decide which vendors, if any, to move forward with.
What you see as a buyer
Your results are yours alone. Vendors never see each other's standing, and your identity is released only to a vendor that accepts your engagement.
Your match results
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Vendor identity is revealed to you when a vendor accepts your engagement.
Your matched vendor
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Vendor identity
Scorecard as measured for your match
Your stated priority: High
Your stated priority: Medium
Your stated priority: High
Your stated priority: Medium
Your stated priority: High
Your stated priority: Medium
Your stated priority: Medium
Your stated priority: Low
The match index is additive and can exceed 100. Dimensions are measured in percent; the index is not.
Sample data shown for illustration. You receive each accepting vendor's scorecard exactly as it was measured for your match: the dimensions evaluated for your engagement, scored to one independent standard, shown beside your own stated priorities.
A platform that answers to you.
Our alignment is built into the platform, not just stated in a policy. Matching is payment-blind: what a vendor pays never enters the scoring path, and every scoring decision is written to an immutable, time-stamped record. The platform can demonstrate that your match was computed from measured fit and nothing else.
Your data is yours
Your information is released to a vendor only after that vendor accepts your match, and it is never sold or shared in identifiable form with anyone else.
Your team, your access
Invite colleagues or an advisor to help complete your assessment. You control who has access, and every collaborator is scoped to your account alone.
The category, covered.
102 TMS vendors mapped across the category, with interview-validated matching available to you now. You get the benefit of the full category evaluated to one independent standard, without doing the legwork yourself.
Find your TMS match.
Tell us what you need. Get a shortlist built on fit, from a platform that works for you.