Carriers and forwarders don't always use consistent terminology for the same routes—Southampton to Felixstowe might appear as "Soton-Felix" one time and spelled out fully another time. Beacon maps these variations to your standard port pairings so rate lookups work regardless of how the forwarder labeled it. You're not manually adjusting lookup tables or fighting with different wording every time—the system handles terminology variations automatically.

Upload new rate cards each quarter when your contracted rates change. Beacon uses the ETD date to apply the correct rate period automatically—shipments departing in March use Q1 rates, April uses Q2 rates. When you're checking an invoice in May for a container that sailed in March, you're not hunting through old rate cards wondering which quarter applied—Beacon knows based on actual departure date and shows you the right rate immediately.

Tag containers by cost center and Beacon shows you freight spend breakdowns by business unit automatically. When your accountant needs to know costs by site for period reporting, download the data pre-allocated—no more manually working out which shipments go to which cost center across multiple spreadsheets. Finance gets their numbers, you get your time back.