FedEx Corp. is taking another step toward turning its vast operational data resources into a commercial asset, using information generated across its logistics network to create new services for businesses outside its traditional transportation operations.
FedEx Dataworks announced Tuesday that it is working with Stripe Capital to investigate how supply chain intelligence can help small and midsize businesses gain easier access to financing. The initiative adds to a series of partnerships through which FedEx is transforming operational data into predictive insights and benchmarks that can be integrated directly into customers’ business workflows.
Recent collaborations with ServiceNow and Dun & Bradstreet have followed the same strategy, extending the value of FedEx’s operating signals beyond shipment execution and into supply chain decision-making.
“Enterprises need access to real world logistics intelligence to power their AI systems and workflows and this partnership demonstrates market demand for what we have built,” FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam said during the company’s Dec. 18 earnings call.
Stripe provides digital payment infrastructure that companies use to accept and manage money online, including customer billing, payment processing and transaction analysis. Its developer tools allow businesses to integrate payment capabilities into websites and applications without building the underlying infrastructure themselves. The platform supports credit cards, digital wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay, and other payment methods across multiple currencies.
Stripe Capital, meanwhile, provides businesses with fast loans and merchant cash advances with flexible repayment terms.
Using logistics activity to strengthen financing decisions
For smaller companies, obtaining capital through conventional financing can be difficult because traditional lending models often rely on strict financial benchmarks. FedEx and Stripe are developing a solution designed to add operational information to that equation.
The proposed product would consider indicators including shipment volumes, inventory movements and fulfillment performance alongside conventional financial information. The goal is to provide a broader and more current picture of a company’s performance.
By incorporating these real-time operational signals, Stripe expects to be in a stronger position to assess businesses, make financing decisions and deploy tailored funding faster than through traditional lending processes. The approach is intended to reduce some of the friction that small and midsize businesses encounter when seeking capital.
“FedEx and Stripe power the physical and digital foundations of global trade,” said John Collison, co-founder and president of Stripe. “Together, we can turn the operational momentum of a small business, like shipping a thousand packages a week, into access to growth finance through Stripe Capital.”
The companies expect to launch their first joint solution in early 2027.
The relationship will also extend to payments. FedEx plans to use Stripe to broaden payment choices for customers worldwide, adding more than 50 payment methods and reducing friction during checkout.
FedEx established Dataworks in 2020 to apply advanced analytics to internal information generated by millions of freight movements. More recently, the unit has incorporated agentic AI capabilities to develop predictive intelligence that can identify supply chain risks and help companies take preventive measures.
The company has increasingly explored ways to commercialize that intelligence. Vishal Talwar was appointed to lead Dataworks as chief digital officer in August 2025.
FedEx looks beyond transportation
The Dataworks strategy reflects a broader effort by FedEx to move further up the supply chain value chain.
At FedEx’s Investor Day in February, Talwar said the company was extending its logistics intelligence to help customers coordinate their supply chains while creating new high-margin digital revenue streams.
“We’re extending proven FedEx intelligence to move up the value chain with customers, helping them coordinate their supply chains, and creating new high margin digital revenue streams,” Talwar said. “We are moving beyond delivery to becoming a true partner in orchestrating our customers’ entire supply chains.”
The company’s partnership with ServiceNow illustrates that approach.
In October, FedEx Dataworks and ServiceNow announced plans to combine economic and supply chain network information with ServiceNow’s automated procurement capabilities. ServiceNow is a subscription-based cloud platform used by large organizations to automate and manage business processes.
The initial objective was to create a system capable of anticipating supplier shortages and responding before they disrupt operations. Shipment data, route performance, network availability and disruptive events were among the information sources intended to support those decisions.
By May, the companies had begun integrating FedEx Dataworks intelligence into source-to-pay workflows. Shipment-delay information from FedEx’s physical network can be used by ServiceNow to automatically trigger workflows aimed at addressing potentially costly disruptions.
Rather than requiring procurement teams to move between separate systems, the companies said near-real-time logistics intelligence can be presented directly inside the platform where those decisions are already being made.
Combining FedEx and Dun & Bradstreet data
FedEx has also expanded its data strategy into supplier intelligence through a partnership with commercial database provider Dun & Bradstreet.
The companies joined forces in February to give businesses a more comprehensive view of their supplier networks. Dun & Bradstreet provides services that help companies assess risk, identify customers and verify the organizations with which they conduct business.
Their first joint product combines FedEx surface and air shipping information with Dun & Bradstreet data covering maritime shipping volumes and container delays, as well as business activity signals and other contextual information.
The resulting dataset is intended to provide a clearer indication of where the retail market is heading. Business and financial decision-makers can use those signals to identify changes in market direction before they become visible in conventional government statistics, including monthly retail sales and inventory reports.
FedEx and Dun & Bradstreet are also developing additional joint intelligence products beyond the Retail Momentum Index.
For FedEx, the strategy is part of a wider effort to improve profitability by removing structural costs, consolidating its networks and concentrating on premium freight. The commercial potential of turning its operational information into supply chain intelligence represents another possible revenue stream, although whether the company can generate meaningful profits from selling that data remains to be demonstrated.
