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# Freight Procurement Software Market: What to Know
by [**Hal Koss**](https://blog.shipperguide.com/author/hal-koss)
Key Takeaways
- The procurement software market is projected to nearly double between 2025 and 2030.
- Manual procurement drains time, hides data, and caps how far a shipping team can scale.
- Digital tools centralize sourcing, carrier management, and tracking in one platform.
- The gap between shippers using digital procurement and those still manual keeps widening.
Freight procurement encompasses all strategies, technology, and procedures warehouse managers use to collaborate with carriers to transport goods. This critical component of supply chain management includes identifying routes and transportation modes for the most cost-effective deliveries.
As the shipping industry faces uncertainty from shortages and regulatory changes, supply chain executives increasingly recognize that [freight procurement software](https://shipperguide.com/solutions/procurement/) is critical for controlling costs, improving visibility, and scaling operations.
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## How Large Is the Freight Procurement Software Market?
Research and Markets estimated the procurement market at $9.82 billion in 2025, with that expected to nearly double to $15.75 billion by 2030.
This signals not just an increase in the overall market share, but a steady increase in the rate it’s projected to grow as well. That growth is being fueled by the adoption of automation and technology to improve sourcing, [carrier management](https://blog.shipperguide.com/carrier-management-and-compliance), and inventory tracking. Centralizing these capabilities enables organizations to scale efficiently.
## What Makes Manual Freight Procurement So Complex?
There are three common complexities in manual [freight procurement](https://blog.shipperguide.com/what-is-freight-procurement) that serve as roadblocks to greater efficiency. These challenges are the main drivers pushing warehouse managers toward digital procurement solutions.
### It Consists of Time-Consuming Processes
Manual procurement means working through the same sequence on every lane:
- Choosing carriers
- Contacting them
- Negotiating rates
- Cross-checking to make sure you’re getting the best price
The back-and-forth involved leads to time and frustration that quickly add up. Meanwhile, McKinsey noted that using [AI-enabled software](https://blog.shipperguide.com/automated-freight-procurement) could save up to 15% in procurement spend, partially due to drawing data for financials and performance history to help inform decisions.
### There Is Limited Visibility and Data Accuracy
Manual processes are prone to human error, which reduces your ability to track data accurately, if you can track it at all. This impedes your decision making in multiple ways, from limiting your ability to collaborate with carriers to making it difficult to anticipate future risks. A GEODIS white paper reported that 62% of companies had limited visibility in the entire inbound and outbound process of transporting goods.
While many noted that complete transparency would be a decisive advantage in operational and cost efficiency, only 6% of businesses claimed to have achieved it. Embracing freight procurement software would shift these companies in the right direction, with many tools automatically tracking data and consolidating carrier information with real-time updates.
### There Are Scalability and Consistency Challenges
Manual freight procurement’s limitations on time and accuracy are major roadblocks in a business’s ability to [scale operations](https://blog.shipperguide.com/scaling-with-tms). Lengthy negotiations slow down operations, and without accurate data, it’s difficult to maintain consistency across seasons or scale efficiently.
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## Why ShipperGuide Is Ideal for Tech-Savvy Freight Procurement
With the freight procurement software market continuing to expand, it’s important to recognize the potential benefits that other supply chain managers are reaping. For a strong example of what a freight procurement tool can achieve, look no further than ShipperGuide TMS.
### Instant Market Access and Automations
ShipperGuide provides an intuitive interface for you to get real-time bids or negotiate within clicks. You can also create bids for contracts, choose your optimal transportation mode for shipments, and access [rate benchmarking](https://blog.shipperguide.com/freight-benchmarking) to ensure your rates are always competitive with the market. Additionally, ShipperGuide helps procurement teams reduce freight costs by instantly comparing rates across carriers, eliminating guesswork.
### Real-Time Visibility and Data-Driven Decisions
ShipperGuide provides real-time data and analytics on your shipments, customizable reports that offer deep visibility into traffic and performance trends, and [scorecards](https://blog.shipperguide.com/carrier-scorecards) to monitor KPIs relating to carrier performance. This information can then be used to make data-driven decisions towards optimization.
### Scalable and User-Friendly Platform
ShipperGuide consolidates all your freight procurement essentials in one intuitive platform, including carrier selection and document management. This ease of use positions your business to scale without experiencing bottlenecks as shipping volumes grow.
## The Future of the Freight Procurement Software Market
Data points to a steady increase in the adoption of freight procurement software as supply chain executives realize how useful they are for optimizing operations. With innovations like AI coming into the mix, freight procurement software is only going to become more accessible and effective at streamlining everything from appointment scheduling to shipment tracking.
The gap between organizations embracing digital procurement and those sticking with manual processes will continue to widen. There’s no reason to fall behind the trend.
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## Frequently Asked Questions
### What Is Driving Growth in the Freight Procurement Software Market?
Growth is being driven by the adoption of automation and technology to improve sourcing, carrier management, and inventory tracking. Centralizing those capabilities in one system is what lets a shipping operation grow without adding the same amount of administrative work.
### What Problems Does Freight Procurement Software Solve?
It addresses the three roadblocks that come with running procurement by hand: the time the back-and-forth takes, the data accuracy lost to human error, and the ceiling both of those put on growth. Software takes on the repetitive sourcing work and keeps the record of it in one place, so decisions are made on current information rather than whatever was last written down.
### How Does Freight Procurement Software Improve Visibility?
It tracks shipment data automatically and consolidates carrier information with real-time updates, instead of leaving that record spread across inboxes and spreadsheets. That matters because complete transparency is rare. Most companies say they do not have it across the full inbound and outbound process, even though they consider it a decisive advantage.
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