Entourage Freight Solutions, an Ohio-based 3PL, adopted Navix to automate freight invoice intake, exception handling, and accounts payable approvals directly inside its McLeod TMS. The result is a faster, more accurate order-to-cash cycle that scales with the business — without adding AP headcount.
The Challenge: Manual AP and Invoicing in a Growing Freight Brokerage
As Entourage grew across refrigerated, dry, and expedited freight, its accounts payable and invoicing work grew with it. Every carrier invoice had to be received, matched against the load, checked for errors, and routed for approval — largely by hand. Manual review slows the order-to-cash cycle, invites costly overpayments, and forces brokerages to add headcount just to keep pace with volume. Entourage needed a way to scale invoice and AP processing without scaling the manual effort behind it.
What Navix Automates for Entourage Freight Solutions
Navix connects directly to Entourage’s McLeod TMS and automates the freight financial workflow end to end. The platform ingests invoices the moment they arrive, extracts and validates the data, flags exceptions instantly, and auto-resolves routine discrepancies — routing only true exceptions to a person for approval. By catching errors before payment and moving invoices out the door as soon as the POD lands, Navix reduces the order-to-cash cycle by a minimum of three days and lets Entourage handle more volume without adding AP staff.
Why Freight Brokers and 3PLs Are Automating Their AP
Across the industry, brokers and 3PLs are automating accounts payable to stop tying up working capital in slow approvals. By automating invoice intake, audit, and settlement on a single platform, freight companies shorten days sales outstanding (DSO), recover overcharges, and free their finance teams to focus on exceptions instead of data entry — the fastest path to get paid sooner.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Navix automate for freight brokers?
Navix automates the full freight financial workflow: invoice intake, data extraction, freight audit, exception handling, accounts payable approvals, and customer invoicing. It flags billing errors before payment and auto-resolves routine discrepancies, so brokers process more invoices with less manual work.
How does Navix integrate with McLeod?
Navix connects directly to the McLeod TMS, so invoice and AP data flows automatically between the two systems. Entourage Freight Solutions uses this McLeod integration to streamline freight audit and accounts payable without manual re-keying.
How much faster is the order-to-cash cycle with Navix?
For Entourage, Navix reduces the order-to-cash cycle by a minimum of three days by invoicing as soon as the proof of delivery (POD) lands and resolving exceptions automatically — shortening DSO and improving cash flow.