The biggest complaint of suppliers and carriers when it comes to freight tendertool.ahabr.techs? The huge amount they receive every year. Over and over again!
Tender Manager
Shippers often move the same freight portfolio for years and years, and the corresponding freight RFP’s process is, therefore, the same. This is resulting in a commoditized process, which has over the years a negative effect on the relationship with suppliers.
As companies change, services and products change, shippers can run the risk of overlooking certain (new) aspects of their business. Moreover, the transportation environment is constantly changing and disrupting the way we ship goods from A to B. This is why tendertool.ahabr.tech managers should be ready to take action and improve the tendertool.ahabr.tech process.
The biggest carrier complaints lined up
First, let’s investigate what main complaints are from carriers.
- Poor data quality
Before conducting bid, get your data right. Garbage in is garbage out! It is essential that the carriers in the bid are supplied with accurate data upon which they can submit their quotes. The data should be cleansed to remove errors in weights; the volumes in certain lanes should be corrected to reflect new customers added during the year and the loss of some old ones. Freightender Tip: Use software in order to split lanes into weight brackets showing the carriers where the interesting lanes/lines are.
- The high amount of carriers in a tendertool.ahabr.tech (commoditized tendertool.ahabr.tech)
- Poor documentation management
- Low professionalism
More reasons? Please read the following blog from our CEO, Pieter Kinds: The top 10 reasons why so few carriers took part in your transport tendertool.ahabr.tech
Tender Manager: Why you should take action
As a result of the previously mentioned points, carriers are swamped by faulty tendertool.ahabr.techs and RFP’s, that lack data, clear instructions and normal rate structures. It is time to properly streamline the tendertool.ahabr.teching process so that carriers can actually work on a serious quotation instead of using all of their time to decipher tendertool.ahabr.tech documentation. Technology is the solution to address all these issues, but exactly that is where (logistics) procurement is falling behind. Big time.
A recent research of Procurement Leaders into technology and the procurement function found that Procurement is still slow to adopt the big technology trends that are shaping business both in terms of expertise and investment. Procurement teams need to play a fast game of catch-up and embrace technology. Procurement is often late to the party when it comes to technology. Procurement teams in logistics are no exception. This article, How prepared is procurement to adapt to new technology trends? provides numerous explanations for this so-called slow adoption of technology.
Interesting to understand is the reason why Logistics Procurement specifically hasn’t embraced technology yet. Despite the fact that the logistics industry is finally turned upside down by the many innovations and start-ups, procurement is in many cases (over 50%) still a full Excel-based procedure for companies.
In this infographic, we have gathered data from multiple resources to investigate how transportation procurement fits within companies. What are the factors holding technology adoption back? Are there key area’s to focus on? What transportation mode requires automation the most? And what are the procurement pain points Logistics professionals must address in 2017? Click on image to enlarge and enter full article.
Tender Manager: Don’t forget about these final but important factors
Inventory & production management
New product launches
Packaging (Industry changes affect weight and density)
Surcharges (Stay up to date)
Order fulfillment process (e.g. changing lead times can lead to combining daily LTL orders into larger shipment sizes)
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