Loadsmart Shortlisted in 6 Categories at the 2026 SaaS Awards

Loadsmart is proud to announce that ShipperGuide TMS has been shortlisted in six categories at the 2026 SaaS Awards, presented by The Cloud Awards:

• Best SaaS Solution for Logistics & Transportation
• Best SaaS Solution for Manufacturing, Engineering & Industrial
• Best Use of SaaS in a Cloud Ecosystem
• Best SaaS Solution for BI, Analytics & Reporting
• Best Data-Driven SaaS Innovation
• Best SaaS Workflow Automation Solution

Judged by an independent panel of international industry experts, the awards celebrate technical excellence, meaningful innovation, and measurable business impact. 

Why These Categories Matter

ShipperGuide’s recognition across six categories points to the scope of its goal: helping shippers cut procurement time, automate manual processes, and lower transportation costs.

Logistics and Transportation

Transportation teams need software that helps them procure freight faster, optimize carrier decisions, and improve service, not just track shipments. Customers are already seeing the results:

• Olympic Steel achieved more than $260,000 in transportation savings within a single division during its first year.
• General Insulation Company reduced LTL transportation costs by 18% while simplifying freight planning across more than 40 branches.
• Ethnix Group reduced spot quote turnaround from approximately two hours to as little as five minutes, while automating the majority of dock scheduling through carrier self-service.

Manufacturing, Engineering, and Industrial

Manufacturers run some of the industry’s most demanding transportation networks, balancing production schedules, inbound materials, outbound freight, and facility constraints all at once. ShipperGuide brings procurement, planning, execution, dock scheduling, and analytics into sone system, helping manufacturers make faster decisions with less operational overhead.

Cloud Ecosystem

Disconnected software has historically forced transportation teams to work across multiple applications, spreadsheets, and emails. ShipperGuide connects freight procurement, execution, visibility, settlement, and dock scheduling into one cloud-native platform. With Opendock built into ShipperGuide, transportation and warehouse teams work from the same operational data, reducing friction across the freight lifecycle.

BI, Analytics, and Data-Driven Innovation

FreightIntel AI continuously analyzes transportation activity against Loadsmart’s freight intelligence dataset to identify market trends, optimization opportunities, and cost-saving recommendations, so teams get answers without having to dig through reports.

Workflow Automation

Transportation software has historically required clicking through shipments one by one to manage exceptions, communicate with carriers, approve invoices, and coordinate freight. Copilot Tasks automates these repetitive workflows while keeping human oversight through configurable rules and approval steps.

The Bigger Picture

Across manufacturing, food and beverage, industrial distribution, and retail, customers are using ShipperGuide to reduce procurement time, improve carrier performance, automate manual work, and lower transportation costs without adding headcount. That’s the throughline across all six categories: this recognition is about a connected platform that helps teams make better decisions and execute faster.

We’re honored to be recognized alongside some of the world’s most innovative SaaS companies, and grateful to the customers and partners shaping where ShipperGuide goes next.