Improve Your Inbound Vendor Management with ViewPoint TMS

Why Inbound Vendor Management Matters for Scaling Your Business

The Power of Dynamic Inbound Shipping Rates

Your purchasing team needs full transparency into inbound shipping. With ViewPoint TMS, they get it. Procurement leaders can monitor vendor compliance, shipping costs, and delivery schedules in real time. Purchasing visibility improves contract negotiation. Teams can see if vendors are using preferred carriers and achieving expected savings. Accountability becomes part of your inbound vendor management strategy.

The inbound shipping portal also allows easy tracking of your shipments while they are in transit. Similarly, gathering the data properly off the front end also empowers data-driven decision making and forecasting. Your team gets automated alerts when a shipment leaves a vendor, is delayed, or arrives — all without hunting for information. Reference codes like PO number can be tied to the orders so your procurement team can know when inventory or raw material is hitting your dock.

How Inbound Shipment Software Powers Reverse Logistics

Inbound shipping isn’t just about vendor freight. It’s about customer returns too. ViewPoint TMS seamlessly handles reverse logistics through the inbound vendor management portal. At the time of invoice, the system can automatically populate RMA numbers. This step reconciles billing against customer returns. It streamlines operations and protects your bottom line.



Managing inbound shipping for returns helps you close the loop faster. Your team processes credits, updates inventory, and audits freight costs with complete accuracy.

Why Shippers Scaling Up Must Adopt Dynamic Inbound Shipping

Carriers updated their contract types to dynamic pricing to offer savings when trailers have extra availability. TLI equips shippers to realize the best of both worlds where we can upload contracts and also compare rates against these ever-changing rating structures. Similarly we can setup exclusionary lanes if you do not want a carrier to be an option for a vendor. We also have settings that can enable pricing to be visible, or you can hide your contract pricing from the vendors when they are routing your inbound freight. Growing businesses need inbound shipment software built for change. Static routing guides can’t keep up. Dynamic inbound vendor management is the future of smart shipping.

Procurement teams demand purchasing visibility across every shipment. ViewPoint TMS delivers it in one easy-to-use inbound shipping portal. You no longer need ten systems and manual spreadsheets.

If you want to scale, you must modernize inbound shipping today. ViewPoint TMS gives you the power to save money, boost visibility, and handle returns — all from one place.