Procurement Advisory for shippers

Savings typically range from 10% to 25%+ on freight costs, depending on mode complexity, data quality, and tender maturity. A leading beverage producer achieved 25% savings on an ocean freight tender rebuilt from scratch. Sysco France hit a 10%+ savings target on a €23M road tender through expert data cleansing and complex allocation simulations.

The advisory team acts as a direct extension of the customer's procurement department for the full duration of the tender. This means end-to-end project management: strategy, data cleansing, rate card design, tender execution on the Transporeon platform, and live carrier negotiations. Every engagement closes with audit-proof allocation documentation and management-ready summaries.

Fragmented, inconsistent shipment data produces unreliable rate structures, confused carriers, and poor-quality bids. Cleansing, harmonizing, and validating shipment data before the tender event is often where the advisory team creates its most immediate value. Without it, even a well-designed tender strategy will underperform — regardless of platform or methodology.

Procurement Advisory focuses on how to run a specific freight tender — strategy, data, execution, and negotiation. Supply Chain Advisory takes a step back and asks whether the supply chain structure itself is optimized: network design, mode selection, warehouse locations, and make-or-buy decisions. Many shippers are running logistics networks built for a different business size or cost environment.

Rising fuel costs, geopolitical disruptions, driver shortages, and capacity swings make it hard to know when to go to market or what savings targets are realistic. Transporeon's advisory team brings independent market intelligence and methodology built on 1,700+ projects, reducing the risk of mis-timed or poorly structured tenders — and adding external credibility for boards and senior management.

Yes — this is one of the most common use cases. Companies already on the Transporeon Freight Procurement platform can add advisory as a layer for high-stakes tenders where internal capacity is stretched. The advisory team can operate the platform as a fully managed service, freeing the customer's team entirely without onboarding a new system or restructuring the team.

The service covers all transport modes — road, ocean, air, rail, CEP, and warehousing — with global geographic coverage. Ocean and air tenders, which require specialist market knowledge most internal teams lack, are a particular area of strength. The advisory team has delivered projects across Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, and global ocean trade lanes.

Transporeon's advisory team operates independently of carrier relationships and has no commercial incentive to favor any carrier, forwarder, or logistics provider. All tender documentation is handled with full confidentiality. ALTANA's Head of Logistics Procurement noted: "We wanted independent benchmarking from a third party, to gain better objectivity" — and that Transporeon delivered exactly that.

Three tiers match different levels of customer need: Platform Service — self-service tender execution with advisory support and a methodology safety net; Managed Service — fully outsourced platform operation where the advisory team runs the tender end-to-end; Procurement Consulting — full expert advisory from strategy through live carrier negotiation, with the team acting as an embedded extension of the customer's procurement function.