Mariner Logistics, a full-service third-party logistics provider, uses Navix to automate carrier invoice review, reconciliation, and real-time charge validation inside its existing TMS. By moving freight audit from a reactive back-office task to a proactive financial control layer, Mariner accelerates billing readiness and gets paid sooner — without adding manual audit headcount as volume grows.
What Navix does for Mariner Logistics
Navix embeds AI-native freight audit automation directly into Mariner’s operational workflows. Instead of catching billing errors after invoices reach accounting, Navix validates revenue and cost the moment freight execution happens — flagging exceptions, reconciling carrier charges, and confirming billing readiness before transactions hit the ledger. For a 3PL operating as an extension of its customers’ supply chains, that means fewer disputes, faster invoicing, and tighter margin control at scale.
How AI-native freight audit works inside a 3PL’s TMS
Navix connects to the systems Mariner already runs. It sits between freight operations and accounting, orchestrating exception resolution and validating every charge against contracted rates and accessorials. Because the audit runs continuously inside the existing TMS rather than as a separate batch process, discrepancies surface in near real time — so billing goes out clean the first time and days sales outstanding (DSO) comes down. No rip-and-replace, no parallel system for the operations team to learn.
Why freight and financial execution must move at the same speed
As Eric Krueger, CEO of Navix, puts it: “Freight execution and financial execution have to move at the same speed.” When they don’t, revenue leaks — through missed accessorials, unbilled charges, and invoices that sit in dispute while cash is tied up. Mariner’s investment in Navix reflects a broader industry shift toward AI-driven financial orchestration, where audit is a control layer that protects margin, not a cost center that reacts to problems after the money is already at risk. As Ken Apple, CEO of Mariner Logistics, notes: “For Mariner, automation isn’t just about efficiency — it’s about building a scalable foundation for growth.”
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Navix do for 3PLs?
Navix automates freight audit, invoice validation, and end-to-end order-to-cash workflows for third-party logistics providers. It validates carrier revenue and cost, resolves billing exceptions, and confirms billing readiness before invoices reach accounting — so 3PLs bill faster, reduce disputes, and lower DSO without adding manual audit staff.
How does Navix integrate with a TMS?
Navix runs inside a provider’s existing TMS and ERP systems rather than replacing them. It sits between freight operations and accounting, continuously validating charges and orchestrating exception resolution so billing readiness is confirmed in the systems the operations team already uses.
Is Navix a freight audit and payment (FAP) service?
Navix is an AI-native financial execution platform, not a traditional outsourced freight audit and payment provider. Instead of sending your freight bills to a third party to audit after the fact, Navix embeds automated audit and invoice validation directly into your workflows, giving you a proactive financial control layer you own and operate.
About Navix
Navix is the AI-native financial execution layer for transportation networks. For logistics providers like Mariner, Navix sits between freight operations and accounting — validating revenue and cost, orchestrating exception resolution, and accelerating billing readiness before transactions reach the ledger. Navix automates freight audit, invoice validation, and end-to-end order-to-cash workflows within existing TMS and ERP systems.