Air, ocean, or ground, decided at tender time.
Keep premium freight for orders that need it to meet the delivery date. Duvo checks which air, ocean or ground options can still meet the promised date, then applies your contract rates and routing rules to find the lowest-cost compliant choice. Your team reviews customer-critical orders and delivery risks before tendering, reducing avoidable expedites while protecting service commitments.
Agree the supported records, system access and approval rules for your process before execution.
Mode Selection
Needs inputOrder 1042
- Recommended mode
- Air fallback
- Scope
- Prague to Paris
- Decision
- Review air fallback
Next action
Approval thresholds
A promised date at risk, a customer-critical order, or a cost outside policy pauses for the transportation owner before tendering.
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Mode Selection
Orders are checked against routing rules, service deadlines, and available transport modes before tender.
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Approval
Exceptions pause for the named owner
Each exception carries the source records, applied rule, recommended action, and the person authorised to decide.
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Recommended mode
Recommended mode is visible before the action
Each order shows the compliant mode, timing constraint, and rule behind the recommendation before it is tendered.
The mode decision runs on the rules you already have.
The mode gets decided under deadline pressure, and the most expensive option wins by default.
- 01Intake
Pick up the shipment.
Orders ready to tender are read from your transport management system (TMS), SAP, and order files, with the lane, weight, and promised date attached.
- 02Check
Find the modes that meet the date.
Air, ocean, and ground options are checked against transit times, schedules, and cut-offs to see which ones still hit the promised date.
- 03Decide
Your team decides
Apply the cost rules.
Contract rates and routing-guide rules are applied per mode, and the cheapest option that meets the date is selected.
- 04Approve
Your team decides
Pause where judgement matters.
A date at risk, a customer-critical order, or no mode inside policy routes to the transportation owner before anything is tendered.
- 05Tender
Tender and record the reason.
The chosen mode and carrier are tendered, and the decision, the alternatives, and the reasoning are written back to the TMS and SAP.
Built to run on the systems you already have.
Systems and control details
Mode selection works through the TMS, contracts, and carrier connections your team already uses, then leaves a clear record of each decision.
TMS shipment records, routing guides, freight contracts and rate cards, carrier schedules and transit times, SAP and order data, carrier portals, email and shared inboxes
Approval thresholds
A promised date at risk, a customer-critical order, or a cost outside policy pauses for the transportation owner before tendering.
Decision rationale
Each case shows the modes considered, the transit times checked, the cost difference, and the rule behind the pick.
Recommend first
Start with recommendations only, then let Duvo tender once the team trusts the rule set.
Contracted guarantee
5x ROI, guaranteed
If measured results fall below 5x the total proposal price, the whole contract is free.
What teams ask about Mode Selection
What decides between air, ocean and ground for an order?
Duvo first checks which options still meet the promised date against transit times, schedules and cut-offs. Contract rates and routing-guide rules are then applied to find the lowest-cost option that meets the date.
What stops a cheaper mode putting a customer order at risk?
A date at risk, a customer-critical order or no mode inside policy routes to the transportation owner before anything is tendered.
Where is the mode decision recorded?
In the TMS and SAP: the chosen mode and carrier, the alternatives, the transit times checked, the cost difference and the reasoning.
Is premium freight ruled out?
No. Premium freight is kept for orders that need it to meet the delivery date.