BPOSupply Chain

BPO Supply Chain / Fractional

Know what transportation should cost. Verify what you pay.

Fractional is BPO Supply Chain’s transportation cost-management platform. It connects carrier agreements, shipment facts, invoices, sourcing decisions, and line-level verification—across parcel, freight, ocean, air, and courier networks.

Commercial
Benchmark and source
Financial
Audit and reconcile
Operational
Implement and control
Multimodal cost control Evidence connected
Transportation evidence flows into Fractional cost controlA dimensional system cycles through ocean, air, parcel, time-critical courier, and freight data profiles. Shipment, agreement, and invoice evidence flow into Fractional for line-level cost comparison and verified savings.
  1. 01Ocean
  2. 02Air
  3. 03Parcel
  4. 04Courier
  5. 05Freight

Transportation network coverage

One commercial evidence model across the network.
OceanLANEEQUIPMENTTERMS
Parcel + airSERVICEWEIGHTZONE
CourierURGENCYHANDOFFACCESSORIALS

The Fractional product family

One platform. Six connected sub-products.

Each sub-product has a distinct job, but all of them work from the same economic record. That continuity is what connects an initial benchmark to sourcing, implementation, audit, and verified results.

01

Audit & Recovery

Find the difference between what was billed and what should have been billed.

Compare invoice detail with shipment facts, contracted rates, service rules, and accessorial logic—then move each exception into a reviewable recovery workflow.

Expected cost · observed cost · variance
02

Agreement Compliance

Translate carrier agreements into testable commercial rules.

Organize incentives, earned discounts, minimums, DIM terms, surcharges, and other agreement mechanics so performance can be measured against the contract actually in force.

Terms · effective dates · charge logic
03

Agreement Optimization

Model better economics on the same shipment population.

Designed to reprice comparable activity under alternative terms while holding the shipment and required service constant—and to separate rate opportunity from operational change.

Current terms · target terms · modeled result
04

Benchmark & Sourcing

Turn a benchmark into a sourcing decision.

Normalize the baseline, compare relevant market profiles, build the negotiation blueprint, and evaluate proposals on the customer’s real service, weight, zone, and charge mix.

Baseline · benchmark · blueprint
05

Transportation Analytics

See the operating shape behind transportation spend.

Explore invoices, services, weights, zones, accessorials, modes, and accounts without flattening unlike activity into one average.

Spend · service mix · shipment characteristics
06

Claims & Evidence

Keep the proof attached to the recovery work.

Designed to organize shipment evidence, loss and damage details, claim status, supporting documents, and carrier outcomes in one controlled record.

Evidence · status · recovery record

The operating model

The evidence survives every decision gate.

Fractional is designed so the baseline established at assessment does not disappear when the work moves into sourcing or implementation.

  1. 01

    Assess

    Normalize shipment, invoice, service, and agreement data around a common evidence set.

  2. 02

    Source

    Benchmark the current economics and negotiate against the way the network actually ships.

  3. 03

    Implement

    Carry awarded terms, carrier decisions, and operating rules into the working environment.

  4. 04

    Verify

    Compare expected and observed cost at line level so realized value can be proven.

Line-level expected, observed, and variance workflowA material-style workflow compares expected cost logic with observed carrier invoice lines, explains the variance, and applies evidence and eligibility rules before labeling a difference as verified savings.LINE-LEVEL SAVINGS CONTROLCompare like with like. Explain every difference.Normalize the shipment and charge context before a variance advances to savings.01 / EXPECTEDWhat should applyAgreement or approved baseline logicService + zone + weightRate + discount + charge rule02 / OBSERVEDWhat reached the invoiceShipment evidence and charge detailSame normalized attributesInvoice line + supporting detail03 / VARIANCEWhat changed—and whyDifference classified before savingsRATE TERMSSERVICE SELECTIONBILLING ACCURACYEVIDENCE + ELIGIBILITY GATERequired service is preserved; timing, cause, and ownership are confirmed.ComparableDocumentedEligibleSUPPORTED RESULTVerified savings

Line-level savings evidence

Every savings claim resolves to the line.

The applicable agreement or approved baseline becomes the expected cost. The carrier invoice becomes the observed cost. Any difference is classified by cause and is not treated as savings until the underlying shipment and charge lines reconcile.

  • Hold shipment characteristics and required service constant for commercial comparisons.
  • Separate negotiated rate value, service-mix change, and invoice error.
  • Keep excluded, unpriced, and unresolved activity visible instead of folding it into a claim.

Illustrative system logic—not a customer savings estimate.

Mode-aware by design

Different transportation modes need different commercial logic.

The platform keeps each mode’s service and charge mechanics intact, then gives leadership a consistent way to understand the result.

01 / Ocean

Container economics and commercial terms

Connect lane, equipment, service, and invoice detail to the agreement used to price the movement.

Container lines · NVOCCs · forwarders
02 / Parcel + air

Shipment-level rating across service, weight, and zone

Keep package characteristics and required service intact while separating transportation, minimums, and surcharges.

National parcel · regional parcel · air express
03 / Courier

Time-critical and specialized movement

Analyze provider-specific charges without blending required premium handling into ordinary parcel economics.

Time-critical · specialized · white-glove
04 / Freight

LTL and truckload cost control

Bring class, lane, fuel, accessorial, invoice, and service evidence into the same commercial review.

LTL · truckload · managed transportation

BPO services around the platform

Fractional provides the control layer. BPO brings the work across the line.

We deliver the work as Consulting as a Service (CaaS): hands-on commercial and operational leadership supported by the Fractional control layer. Technology matters, but change still requires judgment, stakeholder alignment, supplier management, and disciplined implementation.

01

Commercial leadership

Benchmarking, sourcing strategy, RFP execution, carrier negotiation, award support, and implementation governance.

02

Management consulting

Operating-model design, process improvement, decision rights, management cadence, and practical adoption with the team.

03

Product engineering

Purpose-built workflows, integrations, analytics, and human-controlled AI when the operation needs more than a report.

Products beyond Fractional

Purpose-built applications, built by BPO.

ClawPilot and Career Desk solve different problems outside the Fractional platform. Each is grounded in the same belief: consequential work should be visible, reviewable, and controlled by the people accountable for it.

About BPO Supply Chain

Built for the messy middle between a decision and its result.

BPO Supply Chain combines commercial strategy, transportation expertise, management consulting, analytics, and product engineering. We are most useful where the process crosses teams, the data is imperfect, and a recommendation has to become a working system.

  • Evidence before assumption
  • Economics tied to operating detail
  • Implementation with the team
  • Human control for consequential actions

Start with the evidence

See what the network should cost before deciding what changes next.

Begin with a focused transportation benchmark and opportunity assessment.

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