Sifted vs. Green Mountain

Sifted offers a robust logistics intelligence platform designed for businesses that prefer a self-service approach laced with personalized AI recommendations. In contrast, Green Mountain operates as a traditional consulting service, providing guidance on parcel spend strategies. While both have their strengths, Sifted’s comprehensive, scalable software solution provides the flexibility and control that modern businesses need.

Key Differentiators

Software vs. Consulting Services –

• Sifted provides logistics intelligence software that empowers users with self-service tools to take action when recommended. The platform allows companies to independently manage and optimize their logistics operations – with support from logistics engineers when needed.
• Green Mountain operates primarily as a consulting business, providing guidance and expertise on parcel spend strategies and decisions.

SaaS vs. Transactional Pricing –

• Sifted operates on a SaaS, or software as a service, business model. You pay a flat subscription fee in exchange for licenses to use the software. This allows for a broader range of service optimizations and offers a more client-centric, data-driven approach.
• Green Mountain mainly operates on a transactional pricing model, where they charge a set amount per service performed (hypothetical example: charging per tracking number they audit). With this model, as your volume fluctuates, so does what you pay, which can become problematic if you experience sudden volume growth.

Where Sifted Wins

Sifted’s platform is complete with advanced analytics and always-on monitoring to keep track of your cost-sensitive KPIs. You can use it to:

• See data and details normalized across carriers
• Understand how you’re trending and what you should do about it
• Detect anomalies that are impacting your spend and operations
• Build custom reports with robust filtering capabilities

Sifted’s self-service modeling tools are second to none in the industry; they allow you to simulate unlimited high-stakes scenarios in a virtual sandbox. With them you can:

• Simulate and model alternative warehouse locations based on zones
• Test different sizes and weights for packages most affected by oversize fees
• Identify potential vulnerabilities in your supply chain related to fee hikes
• Make service type adjustments by analyzing the most cost-effective mode

Sifted’s carrier management suite provides end-to-end lifecycle management, giving you transparency into carrier delivery performance, pricing and billing 24/7. With it you can:

• Manage and import data across multiple carriers
• Re-rate carrier proposals in real-time against industry standards
• Track individual carrier performance and compare it to similar shippers
• Calculate on-time delivery performance for each carrier mode

Sifted’s new notifications are a game-changer in the Logistics Intelligence world. You have the ability to “set them and forget them” – Sifted will notify you when to take action. Some types of alerts you can opt into are:

• Contract Compliance: You’re not being charged the agreed upon rates
• Contract Monitoring: Terms are expiring soon or you’re getting close to a tier change
• Unauthorized Oversize/Over Max fees: You incur a fee for Unauthorized Oversize (FedEx) or Over Max (UPS)
• Late Payment Fees: You incur a fee for paying a carrier invoice late

Product Capabilities*

*Some capabilities are product tier dependent.

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