Tranzact (now Körber)

Tranzact Technologies Inc. is a Downers Grove, IL-based freight technology company and broker founded in 1996. The company is now a subsidiary of Körber AG, a Hamburg-based global technology group focused on supply chain, pharma, and industrial automation. Tranzact's brokerage and transportation management capabilities are built on a technology-first foundation — the platform was designed as an LTL rating, carrier procurement, and freight audit tool before brokerage was added as a service layer. With an estimated $25 million in brokerage gross revenue, the company's financial footprint as a broker is modest, but its platform touches significantly more freight volume through its managed transportation and audit services.

Tranzact's primary value proposition for shippers is its multi-carrier LTL rate optimization and parcel management platform. Rather than simply booking freight with a single carrier, Tranzact's technology shops rates across a network of LTL carriers in real time, identifies the optimal carrier for each shipment based on rate, transit time, and service parameters, and automates the booking process. The freight audit and payment capability — catching billing errors, duplicate invoices, and accessorial charge discrepancies — is an additional value layer that many mid-to-large shippers underutilize when working with manual or single-carrier programs.

Shippers evaluating Tranzact should understand the dual nature of the offering: it is both a technology platform and a freight broker, and the two are best used together. As a Körber subsidiary, Tranzact fits within a broader supply chain technology stack — relevant for shippers already using or evaluating Körber's warehouse management or other modules. For shippers that primarily need FTL, reefer, flatbed, or intermodal brokerage, Tranzact is not the right fit. Its strength is in LTL and parcel optimization, rate management, and freight bill audit for shippers with significant multi-carrier complexity.