Ekho offers a SaaS platform that delivers prescriptive intelligence for global freight, integrating directly into existing TMS systems to provide proactive reroute recommendations and carrier alternatives before disruptions occur. By forecasting disruptions with a median lead time of 12 days, it helps freight teams avoid costly detention, demurrage, and surcharge fees, enabling faster, surcharge‑free shipments.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Freight teams often learn about carrier or route disruptions only after they occur, leading to costly demurrage, detention, capacity surcharges, and missed delivery windows. The lack of early warning and actionable alternatives makes it difficult to prevent penalties and downstream supply‑chain delays.
Solution
Ekho’s SaaS platform delivers prescriptive intelligence that forecasts ocean‑lane disruptions up to two weeks in advance. By aggregating more than 10,000 public and licensed data sources—including sanctions registries, AIS feeds, carrier EDI, weather models, and social‑signal networks—the system generates risk scores and confidence levels for each purchase order. Alerts, recommended reroutes, carrier alternatives, and optimal booking windows are pushed directly into the user’s existing TMS via read‑only API integration, SSO/SAML authentication, and role‑based access. This enables freight managers to act proactively, avoid penalties, reduce demurrage, and secure capacity at lower cost.
Target Audience
Primary customers are freight managers and logistics teams at shippers, freight forwarders, and 3PLs that manage ocean shipments across high‑risk corridors.
Features
- Real‑time risk modeling with a median lead time of 12 days and confidence scoring for each disruption forecast
- PO‑level alerts that include carrier alternatives, revised booking windows, and estimated cost impact
- Read‑only API integration with major TMS/ERP systems (CargoWise, SAP TM, Oracle OTM, Descartes, etc.) and SSO/SAML single sign‑on
- SaaS deployment with live onboarding in under 24 hours and role‑based user permissions
- Continuous data refresh from 10,000+ sources such as AIS, port authority feeds, weather, sanctions, and social sentiment
- Dashboard view of forecasted penalties, transit time changes, and scenario comparisons for informed decision‑making