Cinch is a real-time logistics cost control platform transforming how shippers understand and manage their logistics spend, has been recognized as a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors in Logistics and Fulfillment Technology report. Cinch gives logistics and supply chain teams visibility into costs, empowering them to reduce spend, streamline decision-making, and avoid costly surprises.

Multiple vendors, freight types, and transportation methods and unstructured data coming from various sources leads to manual data collection, time-consuming workflows to track paperwork, and difficulty understanding the full picture of your operations. Logistics leaders struggle to consolidate data, gain a full view of their spend, and act quickly to control it.

Cinch addresses these challenges by providing:

  • Real-Time Spend Visibility: Consolidates and standardizes logistics cost data across carriers and modes, delivering a single source of truth for all logistics spend.
  • Automate Invoice Audit: Identifies billing errors and overcharges before payment, recovering costs and improving accuracy.
  • Predictive Cost Insights: Surfaces trends and forecasts to help teams make informed, proactive decisions.
  • Sourcing Intelligence: Provides benchmarks and analysis to optimize carrier selection and negotiate better rates.

Cinch requires minimal IT involvement which allows teams to start seeing and understanding their logistics costs almost immediately.

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Gartner, Cool Vendors in Logistics and Fulfillment,, By Federica Stufano, Chap Achen, Simon Tunstall, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran

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