Industries · Logistics

Logistics operations, coordinated.

Order intake, carrier coordination, exception escalation, proof of delivery, and freight invoice reconciliation across lanes.

One shipment touches five systems and three inboxes before the freight invoice clears.

MercuryGate or Manhattan for the TMS. A WMS for the warehouse. EDI and email for carrier and customer traffic, spreadsheets for lanes and freight audit. The tools are fine. The coordination between them is where the margin leaks.

The operating model

Every record enters once. The layer does the walking.

Today each of these systems is wired to the others by a person: re-keying, forwarding, chasing. Navon sits underneath as one coordination layer. An order, a status update, or a POD enters once, routes itself, and lands in the system that owns it, with the hand-offs logged.

Your systems stay. The re-keying goes.

TMSWMSEmail + EDISpreadsheetsCarrier Portals
Coordination layer
LTL-4402 · OrderShipment opened
Tender · LTL-4402Carrier accepted
ETA risk · TL-8817Escalated to AM
Every hand-off logged

How the order moves

The order lifecycle.

Customer order to settled invoice. Five stages that today sit in five systems, owned by five people, updated by hand.

With Navon, one record carries the shipment end to end. This is where we start.

Advisory-led

What an engagement deploys in logistics.

An operational audit comes first. From the findings, we deploy a scoped mix built for how the operation runs: routed intake, automations, and managed AI agents, each working inside an approval path.

  • Intake from email, EDI, or portal push; dispatchers key nothing twice
  • A scoped mix of automations, routed intake, and managed agents, each with a named owner
  • MercuryGate, Manhattan, and your WMS stay the systems of record

Advisory engagements are live across logistics operations today. The platform extends here by design.

Shipment record · LTL-4402
LTL-4402 · Order
Validated against customer master
Opened
POD · LTL-4402
Matched to shipment record
Filed
INV-9903 · Freight
Accessorial variance isolated
Audit review
TL-8817 · ETA risk
Customer thread attached
Watching
Every hand-off logged · TMS + carrier portals stay synced
Where automation lands

Six workflows we automate first.

Identified by the teams running the work today. Each one replaces something a person is doing manually. We build them as discrete engagements, in priority order. Pick one to see it as it runs.

Order intake from email and EDI

Customer orders arrive via email, EDI 204, web form, and portal pushes. Navon classifies the order type, validates against the customer master, and opens the shipment record in the TMS with the right account.

ReplacesDispatchers retyping orders

Order intake queue
LTL-4402 · Email order
Customer master validated
Opened
TL-8820 · EDI 204
Account matched
Opened
Order · No account match
Routed to dispatcher
Needs review
Where Navon fits

Advisory leads. Automations do the work. The platform hosts it.

For logistics specifically, here is what each practice line looks like.

Advisory

We start in the dispatch queue.

Time with dispatchers, account managers, freight audit, and the operations director. Walk-throughs of order intake, carrier coordination, exception handling, and the freight audit cycle. Written findings, phased plan, operator sign-off before anything gets built.

AI automations & agents

Intake, escalate, reconcile.

Order intake from email and EDI. Carrier routing decision support. Exception escalation for late pickups and at-risk ETAs. POD classification and filing. Freight invoice reconciliation. Each one scoped discretely, sequenced by what saves the most dispatcher time and the most freight cost first. Where the work justifies it, managed agents carry a flow end to end, always inside an approval path with a named owner.

Platform

The layer it grows into.

As the automations compound, the platform consolidates them into one governed layer: orders, tenders, exceptions, PODs, and freight invoices in one place with structured ownership, and Nova, the operations assistant, working inside it. It is live in construction operations today and architected to extend here. Runs in your cloud, your VPC, or fully local. Your existing systems stay.

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FAQ

Logistics-specific questions.

The operational questions logistics buyers ask before the first call.

Does this replace our TMS or WMS?

No. MercuryGate, Manhattan, BluJay, JDA, and your WMS stay as systems of record for shipments, inventory, and operations. Navon sits alongside them and removes the coordination work between order intake, carrier communication, exception handling, POD chase-ups, and freight audit that lives in email and spreadsheets today.

How do you handle EDI traffic with carriers and customers?

EDI 204, 990, 214, and 210 are part of the deployment scope when relevant. Most mid-market logistics operations have a mix of EDI, email, and portal interactions with each carrier or customer. The automations handle all three formats and normalize them into a single record per shipment.

Can it handle multi-modal shipments?

Yes. Truckload, LTL, intermodal, drayage, and parcel are configured per lane during deployment. The platform respects the carrier types and accessorial structures already in your TMS rather than imposing a generic shipment model.

What about carrier APIs and tracking integrations?

Direct carrier API integrations and project44 / FourKites style aggregator feeds are pulled in where they exist. Where they do not, the automations parse status updates from email and portals so the visibility gap closes regardless of the carrier's tech maturity.

What does the first engagement usually look like?

An operational audit. We spend time with dispatchers, account managers, freight audit, and the operations director. Walk through order intake, carrier coordination, exception handling, and the freight audit cycle. Written findings, phased plan, sign-off. Usually two to three weeks.

Where does our data live?

Wherever it has to. MercuryGate, Manhattan, and your WMS stay the systems of record where they are today. The Navon layer runs in your cloud, in your VPC, or fully local, depending on your requirements, and that is decided during the evaluation, not retrofitted later.

Ready to see this inside your operation?

Start with a conversation. We walk through how your operation runs today and where the gaps are worth fixing first.