STRATEGIC BENCHMARKING FOR SHIPPERS

Smarter procurement with powerful insights

From market forecasts to best-practice sharing: find out how Strategic Benchmarking can help your company grow.

Our market intelligence initiatives use proven and dependable methods to accurately segment and harmonize market data for our analyses — only for shippers. Our members use these results for tactical freight purchasing and to hone their ongoing strategies and operational processes.

We use validated information derived from real negotiations and contracts in active use, examining data from companies in the same industries, of comparable size and with the same strategic approach.

BENEFITS

Benefits for your business

From market forecasts to best-practice sharing: find out how Strategic Benchmarking can help your company grow.

STRATEGIC BENCHMARKING

Cost Savings

Cost Savings
  • Save up to 8% on freight costs with our state of the art benchmarking approach.
  • Intelligent methodologies for best results.
  • Benchmarking based on "apples-to-apples" comparison.
  • Only validated data is used.

STRATEGIC BENCHMARKING

Covering all Modalities

Covering all Modalities
  • Unlike other market players, we conduct benchmarks for road, air, and ocean transport, providing you with a comprehensive overview of all markets and for all modalities.

STRATEGIC BENCHMARKING

Insights and Forecasts

Insights and Forecasts
  • Profit from insights into lanes, market developments, and forecasts.
  • Get a deeper understanding of rate developments and cost drivers.
  • Receive regular updates with market overviews, cost drivers and development history.

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Expert Community

Expert Community
  • Network with our experts and with shippers from different industries.
  • Share best practices, market insights, and outlooks with peers and members.
  • Access our community of over 100 shipper members from medium to large international corporations based on all continents, and from all industries.
  • Benefit from strategic insights into common practice and critical markets.

Facts & Figures

100
+
benchmarking partners
14
b €
in freight spent analyzed

Primary features

Strategic Benchmarking for Rail and Road

Benefit from an overview of your own transport network – compare with leading companies in your industry vertical. Simple and flexible analysis via customized benchmark viewer. Analyses of trends and rate developments for target rates & budget planning. Exclusive members-only conferences on current market developments. Exchange best practices and knowledge with peers and supply chain experts from various verticals and regions.

Strategic Benchmarking for Global Ocean

Get access to up-to-date market knowledge, rate developments and best practice analyses. Comprehensive rate benchmarking in maritime transport (port-to-port) and the entire transport chain with pre-carriage and on-carriage (door-to-door processes). Full market transparency for best-in-class rates and harmonized freight agreements individualized support in seminars and workshops.

Strategic Benchmarking for Global Air Cargo

With the Strategic Benchmarking Initiative Global Air Cargo, we assist you in all strategic and operational decisions concerning air freight transport procurement. As a community member, you have access to up-to-date market knowledge, current rate developments and best practices. Based on our findings, we optimize your global air freight activities, generating added value. Gain valuable knowledge from other members in different industries to amplify your own market position.

Simplified cost optimisation

The tendering of transports to a closed carrier pool makes it possible to optimise costs through a lowest-price award strategy.

Complete transport data

All information is available centrally, including vehicle and driver information, or health and safety lists.

Benefit from an overview of your own transport network – compare with leading companies in your industry vertical. Simple and flexible analysis via customized benchmark viewer. Analyses of trends and rate developments for target rates & budget planning. Exclusive members-only conferences on current market developments. Exchange best practices and knowledge with peers and supply chain experts from various verticals and regions.

Get access to up-to-date market knowledge, rate developments and best practice analyses. Comprehensive rate benchmarking in maritime transport (port-to-port) and the entire transport chain with pre-carriage and on-carriage (door-to-door processes). Full market transparency for best-in-class rates and harmonized freight agreements individualized support in seminars and workshops.

With the Strategic Benchmarking Initiative Global Air Cargo, we assist you in all strategic and operational decisions concerning air freight transport procurement. As a community member, you have access to up-to-date market knowledge, current rate developments and best practices. Based on our findings, we optimize your global air freight activities, generating added value. Gain valuable knowledge from other members in different industries to amplify your own market position.

The tendering of transports to a closed carrier pool makes it possible to optimise costs through a lowest-price award strategy.

All information is available centrally, including vehicle and driver information, or health and safety lists.

OCEAN MARKET UPDATE WEBINAR

Stay Ahead of the Curve

Ahoy there! Do ocean freight rates leave you feeling you lost at sea? Hosted by our own experts, this webinar will give an overview of the ocean freight market, using the latest Transporeon data. Plus, you will discover the solutions you need to navigate your way through any market challenge.

CLIENT VOICES

What our clients say 

Our members entrust us with their freight data and highly sensitive information. We fully understand the responsibility and have clear rules and processes to ensure confidentiality and compliance.

Strategic Benchmarking is a great one-stop shop for Ocean market intelligence.

Christopher Torres
International Transport Manager,
ABInBev

We really value the insights given into the current shipping environment and future outlook, and also because they allow us to compare our own sentiment on market direction with the other community members in an anonymous way. This helps us take strategic procurement decisions.

Sander Kerkhoff
Team Leader Global Standard Costing,
Bacardi Martini
 

PRODUCTS

More ways to understand the market

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Insights Hub

Market Insights

Market Insights
  • Monitor the contractually agreed rates between shippers, logistic service providers, and the spot market.
  • Use important "indirect" indicators to illustrate the capacity situation on any given lane or market.
  • Define the lanes and metrics that you want to monitor.
  • Get a clear overview of the biggest market changes and top movers.

Freight Sourcing Hub

Freight Procurement

Freight Procurement
  • Smart purchasing strategy.
  • Achieve optimum freight rates.
  • Reduce administrative effort and costs.
  • Find suitable partners worldwide.
  • Audit-proof the tendering process.

Market Intelligence & Benchmarking

Supply Chain Advisory

Supply Chain Advisory
  • Know-How from more than 1,700 supply chain projects and 25+ years of experience 
  • Gain full global network transparency  
  • Achieve cost savings through supply chain optimization
  • Support for all phases, from conception to implementation into your supply chain
  • Deep knowledge of all modes of transport
  • Specialized Benchmarks with proven Market Intelligence methodology

Freight Sourcing Hub

Procurement Advisory

Procurement Advisory
  • Save up to 19% on freight costs.
  • Save 30% on administrative effort with e-sourcing.
  • Use only quality-approved data for tender processes and RFQ events.
  • Ensure 100% compliance with tendering processes.

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