For logistics managers of cargo owner enterprises, annual bidding projects are always a headache. Where to find new partners? How to evaluate the service level of new transportation companies? How to reasonably reduce logistics costs in the new bidding? These are all issues that have to be considered. On the other hand, when facing new business opportunities, how can transportation companies ensure their interests and facilitate cooperation in bidding quotations? How can they fully demonstrate their service capabilities? This is also a difficult problem.
Year after year, with these questions and anxieties, logistics bidding seems to be proceeding smoothly and continuously. A corporate logistics manager once said: "I don't exactly know whether my freight cost is too high or too low. What I do know for sure is only the value of my cargo." And carriers have to frequently test the bottom line of cargo owners to secure an order. To break through such information blind spots, oTMS has launched an online freight bidding system solution. It brings a brand-new experience with the five-step strategy: "data analysis — visual optimization plan — online bidding — real evaluation — cost reduction and efficiency improvement".
First of all, oTMS starts with the real operation data of cargo owners, sorts out the layout of the existing transportation network, capacity resource allocation and freight rate system, finds room for improvement in the past transportation price system, generates a multi-dimensional "transportation view", and provides a visual global data analysis report.
Secondly, oTMS provides a powerful online bidding system to help cargo owners set up actual bidding plans, immediately invite multiple potential carriers to participate in the bidding online, set the time for the bidding project, and allow carriers to participate in the bidding through multiple rounds of quotation, price negotiation and price adjustment. The finally locked quotation can directly generate an effective price document, so as to realize the complete closed loop of subsequent operation monitoring, reconciliation and freight settlement.
- Make the bidding of cargo owners more controllable and more traceable
- Flexibly select invited carriers to participate in the bidding
- Meet the requirements of different quotation structures such as different routes, tiered quotations, and additional expenses
- Support the export of carrier quotations and batch adjustment of carrier quotations
At the same time, during the bidding process, oTMS can assist cargo owners to simulate quotations from different carriers and export the "cost perspective" data dashboard, which strongly supports the final bidding decision of cargo owners, and can also more conveniently quantify the real cost changes in the operation stage.
oTMS online bidding adopts a unified online quotation format, which avoids the inconsistent mode of carrier quotations in different bidding documents. The standardized quotation mode brings efficient comparison and selection. The gradually accumulated KPI data provides competitiveness for high-quality carriers; real waybills provide specific and calculable logistics cost references for carrier quotations, laying a solid foundation for win-win cooperation.
Is everything over after the online bidding is completed? This is not the case on the oTMS cloud platform. The completion of bidding marks the real start of transportation business. The powerful transportation collaborative management capability of the system itself manages the actual transportation execution in real time and accurately. High-quality carriers not only show their price and service level in the bidding, but the accumulation of daily operation performance data can also show their advantages more comprehensively and in depth. oTMS's one-stop transportation service capability will undoubtedly become a priority partner for corporate transportation management.
After a well-known large company used this service of oTMS to effectively optimize its transportation network configuration, it successfully reduced its logistics cost by 6% in 2016. With the rapid development of oTMS in the past two years, it has connected a large number of well-known domestic cargo owner enterprises and accumulated many high-quality transportation companies. Only enterprises that constantly optimize and meet challenges can develop for a long time in this era, continuously upgrade logistics and transportation services, enable participants in the entire logistics chain to get more and better business opportunities, and jointly promote the healthy development of the logistics industry.