Freight Rating & Tariff Management
Definition and operation of freight rates, tariffs, contract pricing, spot pricing, accessorials, and the rating engine that prices freight movements.
Freight Rating & Tariff Management (BC-2520) is a level-1 business capability in the Transportation & Logistics model. The catalog holds 3 API surface(s) from 3 provider(s) that can perform some part of it, 2 of them rated strong or better. Reach is the vendor surface that lands on this capability — it is not a claim about what any particular organisation has deployed.
Sub-capabilities
Tariff and Rate Card Management BC-2520.10
Definition, publication, and versioning of public tariffs and base rate cards.
Contract Rate Management BC-2520.20
Setup and maintenance of negotiated contract rates with named customers and volume commitments.
Spot Rate Management BC-2520.30
Pricing, acceptance, and benchmarking of spot-market freight rates.
Accessorial and Surcharge Management BC-2520.40
Definition and application of accessorials, surcharges, demurrage, and detention tariffs.
Rating Engine Operations Management BC-2520.50
Operation of the rating engine that calculates and validates freight charges across orders and shipments.
Providers that reach this capability
Ordered by rating band. Reach means a provider publishes an API surface that can perform some part of this capability — it is not a claim that any particular organisation has deployed it.
Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Workflows that realise this capability
Arazzo workflows whose own sourceDescriptions call APIs that carry this
capability. The link is derived, not asserted: each workflow declares
x-realizes-capability-ids with the spec and confidence behind it.
- Opereit — audit a carrier invoice against a contract
— opereit
· Contract Rate Management
BC-2520.20