HOW CARRIERS WIN
Deploy Freight Marketplace, and hone the power of market insights and visibility tools
Transporeon’s AI-powered Freight Marketplace enhancements is your key weapon, accompanied by Transporeon’s unrivalled Market Insights, planning, procurement, assignment and visibility kits.
Let’s dig in a little deeper to explain why we have such confidence in making this promise.
WIN NUMBER ONE
The price is right
Your journey to clinching full comfort in your rates and your capacity starts by instantly gaining access to unprecedented internal insights. These insights are a direct result of data, a powerful advantage that comes hand-in-hand with automation and digital transformation.
A word of warning: on its own and out of proper context, treat all data with caution. Unreliable or subjective data is destructive to a business. Bad data used poorly will slow processes and likely lead to regrettable decisions.
That’s why there are two very important words to associate with data: ”neutral” and “trustable". The carrier or forwarding business that best deploys neutral, trustable data in its decision making will be the one that wins.
Transporeon Market Insights are both neutral and trustable. This is because the easy-to-use tool provides real-time, reliable data sourced from over 200,000 daily transactions on the Transporeon platform – a platform in which we are entirely neutral participants, without fear or favour to buyer, seller, shipper, carrier, forwarder or logistics provider. The result is an incomparable Europe-wide rolling overview of the day-to-day commercial road transport market, comprising unmatchable, up-to-the-minute insights into rates, capacities and lanes.
As a carrier member of the Transporeon platform, how does neutral, trustable data transform your business?
PRICING: Europe-wide, it provides members with 100% accurate pricing indices in both spot and contract markets. You can say goodbye forever to the uncertainty of the traditional pricing conversation.
OVERVIEW: Every overview is viewable and manageable via at-a-glance dashboards, all seamlessly connected to your existing systems.
METRICS: Metrics may be assessed via country, lane and region, incorporating both rate and capacity figures.
In short, if you want to know the going rate for any given European road transport lane, in any given volume, you can access the current competitive rate and set your own parameters accordingly. You now have the ability to benchmark your own contract rates against the average rate across your entire network, all the way down to postcode level.
You can source accurate contract rates for all European lanes for FTL road transports with standard ambient equipment. In simple terms, you can ask for a price from point A to point B and Market Insights will give you a figure you can trust. See for yourself! Learn how it works here.
Transporeon Market Insights provides the concrete analytical resources you need to optimize your fleet and capacity for margin targets, ending the guesswork of past rate negotiations.
True Stories From The Industry
"We learned about Market Insights at Transporeon’s Barcelona Summit a couple of years back and we now gain vital information from it. The rate on demand feature allows us to calculate prices quickly, fostering trust and efficiency in our pricing decisions. The lane overviews have been useful for price comparison and providing insight into new countries and markets for us, while the capacity index has helped us to understand capacity fluctuations caused by ever-changing global influences."
Matthias Haim
CRM, Tender Management & Pricing, Zugvogel Speditions GmbH
Carrier: Zugvogel Speditions GmbH
Based: Austria
Employees: 90
Network: Europe-wide
WIN NUMBER TWO
Spot quoting takes just two seconds
The added value that comes with privileged access to neutral, real-time data includes much more than price and capacity information. It transforms your ability to quote for freight journeys more quickly, confidently and appropriately for business that is tailored specifically for your operations. We’ve seen how carriers can transform their business intelligence via the advantages provided by membership of the Transporeon ecosystem.
Autonomous Quotation – Transporeon’s purpose-built tool for carriers to win more business via effective quoting, quicker and more frequently – is how carriers transform their quotation comfort. In simple terms, automation cuts your manual quotation time to two seconds.
Yes, you read that right. Quotes for journeys evaluated, calculated and sent to the shipper or forwarder in just two seconds.
Let’s not forget the pressures and obstacles that prevent fully confident, fast-paced quoting for freight journeys.
Challenges include volatility, on-the-clock pressure to answer quickly, and gaps in knowledge about competitive pricing for lanes and volumes. These challenges lead to missed opportunities for carriers. Quote too low, and you’re losing profit. Quote too high, and you’re losing the freight carriage.
Every quote is relevant and specific to your business, because you set rules and exclusions according to your own chosen criteria, refinable by you.
You only see the offers that match your network’s capability, with volume limitations to match your capacity. Real-time platform data assesses lane and pricing indices (including historical trends), calculates the quote and communicates it with instant win/loss feedback on quote success. The opportunity for carriers to optimize operations, drive growth and improve market visibility and positioning is immense.
Another significant win: the digital office is open 24/7, which means your business is active 24/7, meaning your business never misses any opportunities you might have previously missed when the office is closed.
True Stories From The Industry
“In our very first week after adopting Autonomous Quotation, we secured 20 orders from a shipper we had never worked with before. We also increased the number of transports from one important assigned customer by 30%, in just an 8-month timeframe. We were also able to reduce the number of operational manual staff thanks to the tool.”
Mateusz Noszkowicz,
Director of Development | Board Member, ABC Czepczyński
Carrier: ABC Czepczyński
Based: Poland
Employees: 113
Network: Europe-wide
WIN NUMBER THREE
Buyers and sellers trade safely
For carriers, the battle for more share is about a lot more than price or capacity.
It’s about being noticed, gaining access and opportunities and making sure the world outside knows that you are available and open for business. Carriers face a tightrope challenge: to seek, find and win high-quality freight deals in a price-conscious market while remaining competitive and profitable. At the same time they must juggle time and resources to exploit new leads.
Forwarders share a similar headache on behalf of shippers.
They are always on the lookout for reliable carriers, searching for the perfect balance between spot and contracted business. They’re just as vulnerable as carriers to the dangers inherent in price fluctuation and volatility. They face information gaps and time delays when dealing with multiple disconnected tools to manage daily operations.
Freight Marketplace is the place where these challenges disappear with the click of a button.
Much more than a freight exchange, Freight Marketplace is the no-sweat showcase for carriers, as well as the perfect tool to help shippers and forwarders balance spot and contracted business. It incorporates everything into one, connected space; a mutually beneficial sweet spot for forwarders to trade with fully vetted, fully reliable carriers.
The result is a fair playing field for negotiation with long-term partners you can trust.
How can forwarders be confident in a carrier's reliability? It's simple: every carrier joining the marketplace undergoes a comprehensive vetting process. This requires a set of up-to-date, verifiable key documents that clearly establish their credentials.
Meanwhile, carriers can stand out by transparently displaying their performance metrics, fleet information, and carbon emissions performance. Once on board the platform, carriers can capitalise on real-time market price information to ensure they are offering fully competitive prices to the huge network of forwarders and shippers with whom they are now connected. It’s all seamless, and it all connects without disruption to existing systems.
WIN NUMBER FOUR
Assignment is streamlined
The connected world made possible by the Transporeon ecosystem is helping carriers to understand the market and build certainty that their prices are right, all in the comfortable environment of the biggest shop window they’ve ever had. It’s a great start on the road to greater efficiency and growth. However, this alone isn't sufficient; all your efforts will fall by the wayside if not matched by sleek fleet operations.
That journey starts with assignment of vehicles to freight journeys. Consider the traditional way of handling assignments. It often involves manually matching trucks to runs, requiring extensive phone calls and emails. This process consumes hours, even days, especially with limited capacity and tight deadlines.
Traditional methods frequently lead to paperwork errors, assignment glitches and unnecessary exception management. Not to mention expensive manual hours relentlessly ticking by, too.
Now, let’s look at the new way of perfecting assignments. Imagine doing all of the above in a matter of seconds. The correct information, the correct vehicle, zero mistakes and much fewer unnecessary exceptions to manage.
This is the opening presented when you migrate from a series of disconnected legacy data sources to an intelligent ecosystem fed by real-time, neutral, trustable data. Transporeon’s Transport Assignment module automatically streamlines and quickens the allocation process, equipping network members with lightning-fast reaction time to market fluctuations and ensuring the best transport options are selected.
The benefit? Cost savings, time savings, more efficient operations, greater trust and reliability from partners.
This does not mean you sacrifice your transport team’s knowledge and experience. The ecosystem functions on customisable predefined rules, and team experience will always be vital in managing those exceptions that occur in a busy transport universe.
WIN NUMBER FIVE
You can act on real-time data.
Real-time Visibility (RTV) is already a transformative force in logistics. It enables operators to view via dashboard the precise location of each and every vehicle with configurable alerts to mitigate every diversion and traffic delay. It’s a game-changer in customer relations and day-to-day administration.
Yes, visibility is about routes and locations, but for carriers and logistics service providers, it can encompass much more than that. The key is to combine it with other capabilities in your toolkit and to fully integrate visibility with your planning and execution functions.
Here’s the crucial thing about RTV: it’s not about what you can see, it’s about having the ability to act on what you see. Visibility gives you the confidence to make the right decisions at the right time. Group the capabilities under three broad headings: Plan, Execute and Monitor with the aid of visibility dashboards, triggering activity when alerted to do so.
Advanced efficiency is an accepted objective of all carriers, and visibility helps achieve it. Less manual requirement means fewer check calls and less distraction for manual resources, allowing personnel to focus on proactive exception management. Alerts and notifications via easy-to-read dashboards are tailored to your own selected parameters. With objective visibility that accurately tracks waiting and demurrage times, payment disputes are entirely eliminated.
There are still many myths and misconceptions in the transport industry around RTV, which we explore separately here. RTV tools are an invaluable aid to carrier and logistics operations. When implemented and managed seamlessly, they foster strong relationship management, particularly in complex LSP setups.
WIN NUMBER SIX
Queues and bottlenecks are cut.
We’ve seen how carriers can upgrade their market understanding and fleet operations performance by deploying the collaborative power of the Transporeon ecosystem, but there is still another key staple of the carrier and LSP working day that can be transformed by Transporeon’s planning and visibility tools. Namely, the arrivals, waiting times, processing and departure of vehicles when loading and unloading at yards.
Yards can be a nasty chokepoint in the freight journey: delays, truck queues, extended waiting times and congestion are all regular features of the working day in these settings. Unfortunately, with vehicles all arriving at the same unplanned time of day, collisions and accidents are not uncommon in the resulting high-pressure situations -- meaning costs soon amount. Inefficiencies lead to substantial costs, including penalty fees for missed deadlines and extra payments for drivers idling uselessly.
Companies also face larger fuel bills and higher emissions from idling engines. Further, poor control over loading/unloading processes inflates expenses, and the risk of injuries, legal challenges, and compensation payments increases.
The worst part is, all of these issues are often entirely preventable. With yard management digital tools, those queues vanish.
With Time Slot Management, you’re able to plan specific arrival and departure slots for trucks, knowing you can trust the times will be met.
How? Real-time updates and alerts enable you to reschedule appropriately and configure dock/yard timings throughout the day according to your needs and preferences.
The benefit to your business is that you now conduct loading, unloading and dock allocation according to evenly-spaced, reliable arrival and departure times.
This knowledge allows you to deploy the workforce effectively. No more congestion, no more idling trucks (and drivers), no more queues. Predictability means performance progress. Automated KPI tracking of your loading/unloading times enables objective tracking of your processes, resulting in better communications with customers and staff.
True Stories From The Industry
“We have partnered with Transporeon since 2013. This project aimed to improve coordination between incoming trucks and the yard management process. Previously, vehicles arrived in a tight timeframe, causing delays. Partnering with the platform has cut our waiting times, enhanced communication and accelerated our loading and unloading processes. Lower fuel consumption and carbon emissions means we have enjoyed both economic and environmental benefits.”
Francesco Torelli
BDM, Germany
Carrier: Sesé
Based: Zaragoza, Spain
Employees: 14,700+
Network: 16 countries worldwide
WIN NUMBER SEVEN
The paperwork pile clears.
Paperwork is the bane of carriers and LSPs workday. It’s bulky, it’s non-stop, it’s easy to mislay – but compliance matters. Professional businesses know that clear, well-presented, accurate documentation is a premium requirement of day-to-day operations. It saves time and therefore money. It also reflects company ethos and reputation and is vital to first-class customer relations.
Adopting digital documentation is the carrier’s path to stable paperwork processes, because it eradicates the challenges of manual documentation that lead to errors and delays. It includes sustainability measures into the bargain.
Transporeon’s eCMR digitizes the International Consignment Note process, making documentation instantly accurate and easily accessible.
The benefit to organizations that deploy eCMR is trust from suppliers and customers and a significant reduction in follow-up calls during the shipment process.
What’s more, it’s easy to implement as part of the wider journey to a more digitized and automated supply chain.
True Stories From The Industry
“As a large transport business, it was a logistical nightmare to manage physical documents as well as ensure compliance. To address these challenges, we implemented partial solutions such as partially-filled CMRs but eventually decided to transition to eCMR with Transporeon for a more significant change. We have already seen fewer errors in the shipping process, as well as a huge decrease in follow-up calls.”
Lovro Krasovec
Digitalization & Marketing Specialist, transport+partner
Carrier: transport+partner
Based: Slovenia
Employees: -
Network: Europe-wide
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