Providing an online, non-downloadable, internet-based software application for the use in the validation, auditing, payment, and general ledger coding of freight invoices, and in the collection of transportation data and documents for managing, and analyzing historical, current supply chain data, and predicting supply chain trends with an emphasis on savings, pricing, costs, margins, volumes, weights, routes, lanes, transportation and network optimization, aggregation, supplier and customer information, and to build customized reports and analysis relating to the aforementioned