Procurement & Rating
Rating & Quote Engine
Calculate landed cost and issue quotes from live rules
Rate shipments against contract cards, accessorials, and business rules to produce buy cost, sell price, and margin before tender or booking.
Faster
Quote cycles
Clear
Pre-award margin
Consistent
Rate application
The challenge
Why this breaks without a TMS
Manual quoting is slow and inconsistent. Missed accessorials and wrong lane rates erase margin before the load is awarded.
The ZingTMS approach
How we solve it
The rating engine applies the right tariff and surcharge rules to shipment attributes so ops and sales quote with confidence and auditability.
What you can do
Rating & Quote Engine is designed for daily freight operations - not slideware checklists.
Auto-select applicable rate cards by lane, mode, and date
Calculate linehaul plus configured accessorials and fuel
Generate buy-side cost and sell-side quote outputs
Compare contracted vs spot rating options
Store quote snapshots for later settlement comparison
Hand off rated amounts into tender and invoice workflows
Business benefits
Outcomes procurement, ops, and finance leaders use to justify the platform.
- Produce consistent cost and sell quotes in seconds
- Surface margin before tender acceptance
- Reduce rework between sales, ops, and billing
- Support multi-stop and multi-leg rating scenarios
Typical use cases
Customer service quoting LTL and FTL moves during booking
Brokers comparing contract vs spot cost before tender
3PLs producing customer quotes with buy-side cost visibility
See Rating & Quote Engine on your freight flows
We will walk through configuration, integrations, and the operating model that fits your team.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers for operations, IT, and finance evaluators.
Does the engine rate multi-stop shipments?+
Yes. Rating considers stop structure and applicable lane or mileage rules configured on the tariff.
Can quotes be locked for later billing?+
Quote snapshots can be retained so settlement compares executed charges against what was offered.
How does rating interact with spot tendering?+
Rated contract options can be compared with carrier spot responses before award.
Related capabilities
Continue exploring adjacent workflows on the same platform.
Procurement & Rating
Rate Card Management
Maintain contract rates by lane, mode, and effective date
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Accessorials & Surcharges
Price extras and fuel with rules, not tribal knowledge
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Spot Tendering to Carriers
Push spot loads to carriers and award with an audit trail
View capabilityReady to modernize this workflow?
Rating & Quote Engine runs as part of the full ZingTMS platform - white-label, multi-tenant, and integration-ready.