Growth is a good problem to have, until your technology starts getting in the way.
For a growing freight brokerage, adding more customers, loads, and carrier relationships should mean more opportunities to build the business. Instead, growth can expose the limitations of the systems behind the operation.
Maybe your team is managing loads in one system, customer information in another, carrier information somewhere else, and accounting in another tool. Or maybe your team is constantly switching between tabs, manually re-entering information, or searching through different systems to answer a simple customer question like, “where’s my truck?”
So you apply patches and add more tools – and at first they work – but then your brokerage grows. Suddenly, the technology that helped you get started is slowing you down.
When Your Brokerage Outgrows Its Technology
Most growing freight brokerages don’t start out wanting to build a complicated technology stack. They add extra tools because they solve the immediate problems.
For example: You add a load board when you need loads, and a vetting tool when you need to check carriers, and a tracking app for customer updates.
Each new tool solves a new problem, but they also create new ones.
Your team ends up re-entering the same load information in several systems, which takes time and invites errors. Customer and carrier history gets scattered across logins. Every new tool is another subscription to pay for, another password to manage, and another system to train new hires on. Eventually, your people spend as much time managing software as they do managing freight.
When Inconvenience Kicks In
When your customer relationships and operational data live in different places, information can get lost between systems. Your team may have to switch tabs to answer a customer’s question, and the same load information may need to be entered more than once.
Every additional tool means another system your team has to search, maintain, manage, and learn. For a growing brokerage, those extra steps can make it a lot harder to move as quickly as the market demands.
When it comes to effectively managing your freight, your TMS should be helping your brokerage scale, not making growth harder.
The Problem With Buying a TMS You’ll Outgrow
When you begin evaluating a new TMS, you’re often faced with two very different options:
Starter systems are affordable and quick to set up, but brokerages often outgrow them and later face costly migrations.
Enterprise platforms can support a brokerage at scale, but they come with long implementations, heavy configuration, and pricing designed for much larger companies.
But here’s the thing: Growing brokerages shouldn’t have to choose between just these two options.
Revenova’s launchpad eliminates that choice.
When you choose Revenova, you know the answer to the question of “Can I start with what I need today, while still having a platform ready for where my business is going tomorrow?” is yes.
Built for Brokers Ready to Grow
Revenova’s launchpad is a Salesforce-native TMS designed for truckload brokerages that are ready to grow with the enterprise-grade technology they started with.
Instead of asking your team to keep working with a collection of disconnected tools and workflows, we’ve found a way to bring your people, relationships, loads, and operational workflows together in one system – so when your customer asks “where’s my truck?” anyone on your team can quickly get an answer to them.
What does Revenova offer?
With Revenova’s launchpad, your team can quote, tender, book, track, and invoice freight without constantly switching between different tools or systems.
And because the launchpad comes preconfigured with the workflows, integrations, and capabilities a truckload brokerage needs, you aren’t starting with a blank slate and no support; you’re starting with:
- A system that’s ready to work.
- A team that will get you up and running in just six weeks.
- Two weeks of dedicated post-launch support.
- Data protection with Salesforce’s multi-tiered security model, access management, and advanced encryption.
Most importantly, you’re starting with a platform you can grow into; not one you’ll eventually grow out of.
Go Live in Six Weeks
Let’s face it: Your team doesn’t want to spend months managing a software rollout when you’re busy brokering freight every day and trying to scale operations in a fast-paced market.
Their focus should be on customers, carriers, and winning freight.
When looking to adopt a TMS, growing brokerages need to know what they’re buying, what implementation will involve, and when their team can actually start using the system.
This solution was designed around a clear implementation plan and a defined go-live timeline.
That means less uncertainty around an open-ended software project, more predictability for your team, and more visibility for your customers and their shipments.
One Screen > Five Tabs
Your customer relationships shouldn’t live somewhere separate from your freight operations.
With Revenova’s TMS solution, customer and carrier relationships live alongside the loads and invoices your team manages every day.
Instead of repeating old patterns, like:
Customer information → TMS → Load board → Carrier vetting → Tracking → Accounting
You’re working from one connected platform designed to work the way a truckload brokerage operates.
Your team can access the information they need without constantly switching systems or re-entering the same information across multiple tools (which runs the risk of data entry errors).
The result? A faster way to work in a system your team can easily operate.
The Integrations You Need, Already Connected
Growing brokerages need technology that works with the tools and services they already depend on, but we understand that integrations can quickly become another project.
Revenova’s launchpad comes with a vetted integration stack built around how a truckload brokerage works. You choose from proven, compatible partners in each category:
That includes capabilities for areas such as:
- Market rate intelligence
- Carrier vetting and compliance
- Load boards
- Tracking
- Electronic payments and advances
- Accounting
Instead of sorting through an open marketplace of apps, you pick from a short list of tools that have already been tested together.
Built to Grow With Your Brokerage
The biggest technology decision isn’t necessarily what your brokerage needs today, it’s what happens when your brokerage gets bigger tomorrow.
More loads. More customers. More carriers. More employees. More complexity.
A TMS that works today but requires you to migrate to another platform later can create another expensive and disruptive technology project when you and your business are trying to grow.
That’s why this is designed differently.
You can start with Revenova’s launchpad and expand into the broader Revenova platform as your brokerage grows, while never having to start over.
- Your customer and carrier history can continue forward.
- Your operational data stays connected.
- And your technology can evolve alongside the business.
That’s what it means to have a TMS you grow into, not out of.
Technology That Supports Relationships
Freight is a relationship business.
Good technology should give your people more time with customers and carriers, not put more distance between them.
When the full history of a customer or carrier sits next to the load your team is working on, they can quote faster, respond sooner, and spend less time searching for details.
That leaves more of the day for what grows a brokerage: building relationships, winning freight, and taking care of customers and carriers.
A TMS You Grow Into, Not Out Of
Deciding which TMS to use to manage your freight is a big deal. It can make or break your operations, slow you down, and quickly become complex.
The question still remains the same: “Is the TMS you have today able to support you tomorrow?”
As your brokerage adds loads, customers, carriers, and people, your TMS should keep up with it. Revenova’s launchpad is a starting point, not a ceiling. When you’re ready, you can expand into the full Revenova platform without migrating or starting over.
With Revenova launchpad, you no longer have to choose between a basic system you’ll outgrow, and an enterprise implementation that slows your team down for months.
Your customer and carrier history comes with you, and your team keeps working in the system it already knows. You make one technology decision now instead of another expensive one in two years.
Ready to see what a connected brokerage operation looks like?
Request a demo to see how Revenova can take your team from quote to cash in one connected system.
