For the logistics manager of the owner enterprise, the annual bidding project is always troublesome. Where can I find a new partner? How to judge the service level of the new transportation company? How to reasonably reduce the logistics cost in the new bidding? They are all problems that have to be considered. On the other hand, in the face of new business opportunities, how can transportation companies ensure their interests and promote cooperation in bidding and quotation? How can we fully demonstrate our service capabilities? It is also a difficult problem.
Year after year, with these questions and fears, the logistics bidding seems to be going on smoothly. An enterprise logistics manager once said, "I don't know exactly whether my freight is too high or too low. What I know exactly is my value." In order to facilitate an order, carriers have to frequently test the bottom line of shippers. In order to break this information blind spot, oTMS launched the solution of freight online bidding system. Bring a new experience with the five step strategy of "data analysis - visual optimization scheme - online bidding - real evaluation - cost reduction and efficiency promotion".
First, the oTMS starts with the real operation data of the cargo owner, combs the layout of the existing transport network, the allocation of transport capacity resources, and the freight price system, finds out the improvement space in the past transport price system, generates a multi-dimensional "transport view", and provides a visual global data analysis report.
Secondly, oTMS provides a powerful online bidding system to help shippers open an actual bidding plan, invite multiple potential carriers to participate in bidding online, set the bidding project time, and let carriers participate in bidding through multiple rounds of quotation, negotiation, and price adjustment. The final locked quotation can directly generate an effective price file, so as to achieve a complete closed loop of follow-up operation monitoring, reconciliation, and freight settlement.
-Make the bidding of the owner more controllable and more traceable
-Flexible selection of invited carriers to participate in bidding
-Meet the requirements of different quotation structures according to different routes, ladder type quotation, additional costs, etc
-Support the export of carrier quotations and batch adjustment of carrier quotations
At the same time, oTMS can help shippers simulate the quotations of different carriers during the bidding process to export the "cost perspective" data dashboard, which strongly supports the final bidding decision of shippers, and can also more easily quantify the real cost changes in the operation stage.
OTMS online bidding adopts a unified online quotation format to avoid the mode of each party in the carrier's quotation and bidding documents. The standardized quotation mode brings efficient comparison and optimization, and gradually accumulates KPI data to provide competitiveness for high-quality carriers; The real waybill provides specific and verifiable logistics cost reference for the carrier's quotation, laying a solid foundation for win-win cooperation.
After the completion of online bidding, is everything over? This is not the case on the oTMS cloud platform. The completion of bidding marks the true development of transportation business. The system's own strong transportation collaboration management capability also enables real-time and accurate management of actual transportation execution. High quality carriers not only show their prices and service levels in bidding, but also their advantages in a more comprehensive and in-depth way through the accumulation of daily operation performance data. OTMS, a one-stop transportation service capability, will undoubtedly become the preferred partner of enterprise transportation management.
A well-known large company successfully reduced the logistics cost in 2016 by 6% after it effectively optimized the transportation network configuration by using the oTMS service. The rapid development of oTMS in the past two years has connected a large number of well-known domestic shippers, and has also accumulated many high-quality transport companies. Only enterprises that constantly optimize and challenge can develop in this era for a long time, so that logistics transport services can be continuously upgraded, so that participants in the whole logistics chain can obtain more and better business opportunities, and jointly promote the healthy development of the logistics industry.