How can the consignor reasonably control the transportation cost during the annual bidding?

For the logistics manager of the owner enterprise, the annual bidding project is always troublesome. Where to find new partners? How to judge the service level of the new transportation company? How to reasonably reduce the logistics cost in the new bidding? These are all issues that have to be considered. On the other hand, in the face of new business opportunities, how can transport companies ensure their interests and promote cooperation in bidding and quotation? How can we fully demonstrate our service capability? It is also a difficult problem.

Year after year, with these doubts and worries, 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 the value of my goods." In order to promote an order, carriers have to frequently test the bottom line of the owner. In order to break this information blind spot, OTMS launched the freight online bidding system solution. The five step strategy "data analysis - visual optimization scheme - online bidding - real evaluation - cost reduction and efficiency promotion" brings a brand-new experience.

First of all, OTMS starts with the real operation data of cargo owners, combs the layout of the existing transport network, the allocation of transport capacity resources and the freight rate 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 shipowners set up actual bidding plans, immediately invite multiple potential carriers to participate in bidding online, set the time of bidding projects, and allow carriers to participate in bidding through multiple rounds of quotation, price negotiation and price adjustment. Finally, the locked quotation can directly generate an effective price file, so as to achieve a complete closed loop of subsequent operation monitoring, reconciliation and freight settlement.

-Make the bidding of cargo owners more controllable and traceable

-Flexible selection of invited carriers to participate in bidding

-Meet the requirements of different quotation structures such as different lines, stepped quotation and extra costs

-Support the export of carrier quotation and batch adjustment of carrier quotation

At the same time, OTMS can assist the owner to simulate the quotation of different carriers and export the data dashboard of "cost perspective" in the bidding process, which can strongly support the owner's final bidding decision, and also can more conveniently quantify the real cost changes in the operation stage.

OTMS online tendering and bidding adopts a unified online quotation format to avoid the mode of each party in the carrier's quotation and bidding. The standardized quotation mode brings high-efficiency comparison and optimization, and gradually accumulates KPI data to provide competitiveness for high-quality carriers; The real waybill provides the carrier's quotation with specific and accounting logistics cost reference and lays a solid foundation for win-win cooperation.

After the online bidding is completed, is everything over? This is not the case on the OTMS cloud platform. The completion of bidding and tendering marks the real development of transportation business. The system's powerful transportation collaborative management capability also manages the actual transportation execution in real time and accurately. The high-quality carrier not only displays the price and service level in the bidding, but also displays its advantages in a more comprehensive and in-depth manner through the accumulation of daily operation performance data. OTMS, a one-stop transportation service capability, will undoubtedly become a priority partner for enterprise transportation management.

A well-known large-scale company successfully reduced the logistics cost by 6% in 2016 after using OTMS to effectively optimize the transportation network configuration. The rapid development of OTMS in the past two years has connected a large number of well-known domestic cargo owners and accumulated many high-quality transportation companies. Only enterprises that constantly optimize and challenge can develop in the long term in this era, constantly upgrade logistics and transportation services, enable participants in the whole logistics chain to obtain more and better business opportunities, and jointly promote the healthy development of the logistics industry.