// transportation & logistics
The EDI platform moving freight 24/7
Every load tender, every status update, every shipper invoice is an EDI transaction. Tediware handles all of them: mapped fast, monitored constantly, and priced so you keep your margin. AI-native and API-first.
// the problem
The freight industry runs on EDI. Most of it runs badly.
For most carriers, brokers, and 3PLs, EDI means one of two bad options: an expensive provider that bills you by kilocharacters or trading partners and puts you in a support queue the moment something breaks, or a brittle in-house integration that needs constant human attention to fix the stuff your ops people are complaining about.
In an industry with lean margins, these are costs you can't afford.
Tediware is the third option, a modern platform where AI does the tedious mapping, reliability is the number one job, and the pricing is as competitive as the market you work in.
// the solution
What makes it different
We know logistics
204 load tenders in, 990s back, 214 status updates driven by ELD and GPS integrations, 210 invoices at the end: logistics is how Tediware got started.
Reliably automated
AI handles the grunt work, so onboarding a new trading partner is a conversation, not a six-week project. You've got freight to move: stop wasting time with mappings.
Aligned with you
No kilocharacter billing. No lock-in contracts. No trading partner fees. If you leave, you take your data with you.
// proof
Critical operations run on Tediware
Transervice Logistics and its sister carrier Lily Transportation, a Transport Topics Top-100 for-hire carrier and a Top-25 dedicated contract carrier, runs 25,000 EDI transactions a month on Tediware, at 100% uptime.
When Stedi raised prices, we needed an alternative fast. Tediware has been rock-solid. We're processing 25k+ transactions/month with zero downtime. The AI-assisted mapping is incredible. What used to take us days now takes minutes. We're saving thousands per month compared to our old provider.
// getting started
Start where it makes sense
Spin up on the free Developer tier, prove it with your own trading partners, and scale on transparent, published pricing when you're ready. No mandatory sales gauntlet, no surprise line items.
// the document set
How EDI works in transportation & logistics
Transportation is one of the most EDI-dense corners of the economy: a single load can generate dozens of transactions between shipper, broker, and carrier. Here are the transaction sets that carry the freight, and where each one fits in.
- 204 Motor Carrier Load Tender
- The shipper or broker offers a load to a carrier. The starting gun for the whole flow.
- 990 Response to a Load Tender
- The carrier accepts or declines the 204. Fast acceptance is what keeps freight moving.
- 214 Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message
- Status and location updates across the life of the shipment (picked up, in transit, delivered). The document that powers visibility.
- 210 Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoice
- The carrier or broker bills for the completed move.
- 997 Functional Acknowledgment
- The receipt that confirms a transaction was received and structurally valid. The backbone of reconciliation.
Distribution and 3PL operations often layer in the retail document set as well, 856 Advance Ship Notice and 850 Purchase Order, when they're shipping on behalf of retail clients.
New to any of these, or inheriting an integration you didn't build? That's exactly the situation Tediware is designed for. Talk to an EDI expert.