For logistics managers of shipper companies, annual bidding projects are always a headache. Where to find new partners? How to judge the service level of a new transportation company? How to reasonably reduce logistics costs in new tenders? These are all issues that have to be considered. On the other hand, when facing new business opportunities, how can transportation companies ensure interests and promote cooperation in bidding quotations? How can we fully demonstrate our service capabilities? It's also a problem.
Year after year, with these questions and worries, logistics bidding seems to be continuing smoothly. An enterprise logistics manager once said: "I don't know exactly whether my freight is too high or too low? All I know for sure is the value of my goods." In order to facilitate an order, carriers have to frequently Test the bottom line of the cargo owner. In order to break such information blind spots, oTMS launched a freight online bidding system solution. A five-step strategy of "data analysis - visual optimization plan - online bidding - real assessment - cost reduction and efficiency improvement" brings a new experience.
First, oTMS starts from the real operation data of cargo owners, sorts out the layout of the existing transportation network, transportation resource allocation, and freight pricing system, finds out the room for improvement in the past transportation price system, generates a multi-dimensional "transportation view", and provides visual Global data analysis report.
Secondly, oTMS provides a powerful online bidding system to help cargo owners set up actual bidding plans, instantly invite multiple potential carriers to participate in bidding online, set the bidding project time, and allow carriers to participate in bidding through multiple rounds of quotations, price negotiations, and price adjustments. , the final locked quotation can directly generate a valid price document to achieve a complete closed loop of subsequent operation monitoring and reconciliation, and freight settlement.
- Make bidding more controllable and traceable for cargo owners
- Flexibly choose the invited carriers to participate in the bidding
- Meet the requirements of different quotation structures based on different routes, stepped quotations, additional fees, etc.
- Support the export of carrier quotations and carriers Batch adjustment of quotation
At the same time, oTMS can assist cargo owners in the bidding process to simulate the quotations of different carriers and derive a "cost perspective" data dashboard, which can effectively support the cargo owners' final bidding decisions, and can also more conveniently quantify the true cost changes during the operation stage.
oTMS online bidding uses a unified online quotation format to avoid the one-sided model in carrier quotations and bids. It uses a standardized quotation model to bring rate comparison and optimization, and gradually accumulates KPI data to provide competitiveness for high-quality carriers; Real waybills provide carriers with specific and accountable logistics cost references for quotations, laying a solid foundation for win-win cooperation.
After the online bidding is completed, is it all over? This is not the case on the oTMS cloud platform. The completion of bidding marks the real development of the transportation business. The system itself has strong transportation collaborative management capabilities and manages the actual transportation execution in real time and accurately. High-quality carriers not only display prices and service levels in bidding, but also display their advantages in a more comprehensive and in-depth manner through the accumulation of daily operational performance data. The one-stop transportation service capability of oTMS will undoubtedly become the preferred partner for enterprise transportation management.
A well-known large company successfully reduced logistics costs by 6% in 2016 after effectively optimizing the transportation network configuration problem using oTMS. The rapid development of oTMS in the past two years has connected a large number of well-known domestic shipper companies and accumulated many high-quality transportation companies. Only companies that continuously optimize and challenge can develop in the long term in this era, continuously upgrade logistics and transportation services, and make logistics Participants throughout the chain will gain more and better business opportunities and jointly promote the healthy development of the logistics industry.
