External Costs (Employee)

This page allows you to view costs provided by external sources and market rates retrieved through the Freight Market Intelligence Consortium (FMIC). For costs from external source, you can view the partner quote information, including cost, quote number, quote expiration, schedule information, and charge/accessorial details.

External Costs are provided by an external source (3rd Party Systems). These can be dynamic costs based on capacity and availability information for loads or shipments, parcel costs, or any other type of cost. External Costs can be supplied to the system via API and are visible to users. Additionally, these costs can be considered during rating processes, which enables them to be considered during the planning phase and the execution phase.

Tariff conditions or options that reference an external cost provider will use the available external cost information for a load or the shipments on a load in Transportation Planner optimizations and rating calls. See Tariff Service Charge fields - General tab.