10 things that make your procurement process terrible and less effective

In this blog, we examine areas of improvement inside the Logistics Procurement process. It is obvious that the industry is making rapid steps and therefore we shine our light on developments within the logistics tendertool.ahabr.tech process. 

International Transport and Freight E-procurement

 

According to many experts, procurement is at an inflection point. For many leading companies, procurement has been transformed into a linchpin of enterprise strategy. Yet, many enterprises remain trapped by outdated paradigms and struggle for influence within their companies. For a very long time, procurement was a back office function focused on processing transactions. The selection of suppliers and the negotiation of supplier agreements was highly fragmented, unsystematic and non-rigorous. That began to change in the 1990s with the advent of strategic sourcing. Over the past several decades, this simple but powerful discipline has delivered enormous savings at countless companies and earned procurement groups a substantial degree of respect and influence.

Freight E-Procurement solutions

 

So Freight Procurement has made great steps in 2016, but the shipping industry remains a complex. With multiple modes, varying freight rate structures and conditions, and volatility in the market, both in terms of providers and capacity, shippers must arm themselves with solid solutions, designed specifically for freight procurement. Isn’t strange that so many shippers have their own unique customized process to freight tendertool.ahabr.teching with special excels, consultants, different tools and instructions while at the same time they view transportation as pure commodity?

Thanks to affordable cloud-based solutions, the old way of sourcing in the transportation industry is dinosaur dead and the only thing strange about it…why did it took us so long! I mean, Isn’t strange that so many shippers have their own unique customized process to freight tendertool.ahabr.teching with special excels, consultants, different tools and instructions while at the same time they view transportation as pure commodity?

 

Optimized freight e-sourcing / tendertool.ahabr.teching

 

Freight tendertool.ahabr.teching (sometimes called freight RFQ)) is the external process inside the logistics procurement environment, where you put your request to the market to receive bids and negotiate with your (potential) suppliers. You can manage a freight RFQ process manually or automatically. The tendertool.ahabr.tech manager or operator sends out a freight RFQ to one or more suppliers. The carrier either accepts or rejects the freight tendertool.ahabr.tech invitation. In case the supplier accepts, the responsible person on the supplier’s side send back a freight quotation (FQ). Theoretically an easy and comprehensive process, but things can complicate fast. For instance, data management, communication flows and analysis are common paint point for LSP’s and tendertool.ahabr.tech managers. Why? Well, a common stain on the wall is the good old excel-based approach, that many in the logistics industry still rely on. Next to that, a dedicated communication protocol is often not in place. The result…is a high workload tendertool.ahabr.tech process, where tendertool.ahabr.tech managers (responsible person inside organization) are focussed abundantly on data management and inefficient communication with suppliers.

At Freightender are now over one year live with our cloud-based E-procurement solutions. during our development, we understood perfectly that logistics procurement was in desperate need of innovation. Not only in terms of effectiveness but primarily in areas such as user handling, cost and time management.

e-procurement solutions

 

Why your freight tendertool.ahabr.teching process is wearing you down

 

  1. You are still making use of an Excel-based approach
  2. You are still manually creating Rate cards
  3. You are still managing documentation and data in your mailbox
  4. You are still communicating with suppliers via your mailbox
  5. You are making use of complicated tools that only a handful consultants understand
  6. You are still running analysis in Excel (you love to build Excel formulas and macros)
  7. You are still inviting your suppliers manually (by phone or email)
  8. You are overpaying for your current freight procurement software
  9. You are making use of generic tendertool.ahabr.tech software  instead of dedicated transportation tendertool.ahabr.tech software 
  10. You are not willing the adapt to modern, cost reductive technology

 

Why you should upgrade to E-procurement solutions

 

  1. Save efforts
  2. Reduce time and resources (set-up, communication, data validation)
  3. Improve quality and compliance of tendertool.ahabr.tech process
  4. Analytic capabilities

Join the tendertool.ahabr.tech revolution!

 

We are very pleased to introduce Freightender.com, the fastest growing,  cloud-based freight tendertool.ahabr.teching platform that makes freight sourcing simple and efficient. Freightender is the easiest to use platform and takes the frustration and enormous time spend out of the tendertool.ahabr.teching process. We facilitate LTL, FTL, Ocean and Air tendertool.ahabr.techs. Already many consultancy organizations, carriers and multinationals are using Freightender and are happy that they have left excel based tendertool.ahabr.teching behind.Freightender changes the way freight sourcing is being done and it is rapidly growing to become the standard in the logistics industry.

If you want to learn more about us follow us on Linkedin or check our website: https://www.tendertool.ahabr.techtool.com/freight-procurement/ or ask us for a demo or trial.

Freightender’s  E-procurement solutions include the following features

 

  • Automated Rate Card and lane creation
  • Online reporting and Analysis builder
  • Online questionnaire creator
  • Online communication workflow
  • Impact tree
  • Customizable widgets
  • Tender Manager dashboard
  • Dedicated business rules features
  • Real-time visibility and control inside the process

 

Pieter Kinds

Pieter Kinds

CEO Freightender.com

Freightender is the standard in freight tendering. It makes the tender process lean, smarter and much faster. 
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