How Fuel Recovery Impacts Each Part of Your Company

Fuel costs account for the largest portion of a shipper's transportation budget, typically representing 20-30% of total expenses. To manage this cost effectively, shippers must prioritize strategies to optimize fuel consumption and reduce spending.

Fuel Recovery presents a data-driven, innovative fuel management solution that strategically optimizes fuel expenses. Calculating market-based fuel reimbursements is more than just one department's responsibility—it's a collective decision that requires input from IT, finance, operations, procurement, and transportation and supply chain leaders. It aligns with your existing processes and technologies, driving efficiency, cost-savings, and operational improvement across the board. Here's how this initiative impacts each part of your organization!

IT

Fuel Recovery seamlessly integrates into your existing TMS, just like ERPs, WMSs, or CRMs without creating additional complexities. No TMS? No problem. Breakthrough has extensive experience integrating Fuel Recovery into shippers' existing frameworks.

Once Fuel Recovery is implemented, there’s no need for additional monitoring by your IT team. Our dedicated team proactively audits systems and resolves any potential errors, allowing your team to focus on other priorities. Additionally, if updates are needed to your TMS, we work closely with you to ensure seamless transitions and provide ongoing support to maintain efficiency within your supply chain network.

Finance

Fuel Recovery provides unparalleled visibility into fuel expenditures and serves as a cost-savings initiative for your organization. Our cutting-edge technology calculates accurate fuel reimbursements and integrates into your existing workflows, ensuring timely payments to carriers without disruption. For shippers who are also considering T-Fuel for a complete fuel price management solution, the process requires minimal additional data exchange and is primarily focused on executing an agreement.

By implementing Fuel Recovery, organizations experience an average 20% reduction in fuel costs for truckload and a 50% reduction in intermodal fuel spend.

Fuel Recovery also enhances budget allocation and financial forecasting, empowering organizations to take control of traditionally unmanaged transportation costs. We publish monthly Breakthrough Fuel Advisor publications, written to keep finance leaders ahead of the curve.

Procurement

Fuel Recovery simplifies procurement processes by leveraging data and expertise. With an ecosystem managing $32 billion in annual freight spend, we offer unparalleled insights for supporting procurement teams during carrier negotiations. Our proven, standardized process ensures Fuel Recovery integrates efficiently into your bid announcements and ongoing procurement activities.

Operations

Fuel Recovery initiates operational efficiency and productivity for your organization. By cleaning and organizing your transportation data, we provide a single source of truth for your entire transportation network. This foundation empowers you to create a tailored roadmap for continuous improvement. From optimizing fuel efficiency and enabling mode conversions to implementing zero-base strategies and reducing emissions, Fuel Recovery equips you with actionable insights to enhance your network's performance while driving sustainability.

Our implementation process takes approximately six weeks and integrates with your current tendering process. After go live, our team monitors data flows continuously—requiring no ongoing effort from your operations staff.

Transportation and supply chain

Fuel Recovery provides best-in-class energy management across all energy types, modes of transportation, and geographies. Fuel Recovery calculates market-based fuel reimbursements that account for the time, tax, price, and geography specific to each shippers' individual freight movements. This shipment-level transparency enables better decision-making and strategic planning, positioning your business to thrive in a competitive, global market.

Optimize energy management with Fuel Recovery

Fuel Recovery is a strategic game-changer for your organization, empowering shippers with the tools and insights needed to optimize energy management. By leveraging a market-based fuel reimbursement calculation, shippers can make informed, data-driven decisions. This innovative approach simplifies complex fuel reimbursement processes and positions shippers to enhance efficiency and maintain a competitive edge.