How NFI's Brokerage Cut Its Annual TMS Spend by 60%
NFI's brokerage replaced a multi-vendor TMS stack with Transfix TMS. Fewer contracts, fewer integrations, and a measurably lower cost of ownership.
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We didn't just buy a TMS. We got a vendor whose entire company is oriented around freight tech, not a generalist software company running logistics as one of ten verticals. That focus shows up in the roadmap and in how fast they turn around what we ask for.
Seven Sections. One Consolidation Story.
A practical read for VPs of Operations and Presidents at brokerages running on a multi-vendor TMS stack or a proprietary system.
What NFI's hybrid tech stack looked like before the move: a proprietary TMS, four development agencies, cloud infrastructure, a licensed brokerage TMS, and point-solution integrations.
How Transfix TMS unifies pricing, autobidding, load building, scheduling, booking, tracking, and compliance onto a single connected system.
The five results NFI's brokerage got from the consolidation, from reclaimed internal labor to retired vendor contracts and native capabilities.
Why NFI chose Transfix over continuing with multiple vendors or taking on the cost and timeline of building a TMS in-house.
The architectural difference between Transfix TMS and the rest of the TMS market, and why the unification was built-in, not retrofit.
Seven native TMS capabilities that replace strap-on vendor subscriptions, from autobidding to compliance.
How Transfix migrations go live in 90 days without cutting corners — the sequencing, in-person training, and stakeholder cadence that make it work.
What You'll Walk Away With
Specific, operator-tested decisions you can bring to your next TMS evaluation.
A framework for calculating the true TCO of your current TMS stack, including internal labor, dev agencies, infrastructure, and vendor contracts.
A vendor-consolidation diagnostic for spotting whether your current stack can be collapsed onto one connected platform.
The autobidding story behind NFI moving spot-load auto-bid from 47% to 88% without a separate pricing-intelligence subscription.
A 90-day implementation blueprint that goes live without cutting corners — sequencing, stakeholder cadence, and in-person training.
The seven native TMS capabilities that replace strap-on subscriptions for pricing, load building, posting, tracking, compliance, and more.
The architectural difference between a TMS built as one platform and a TMS stitched together through partner integrations.