BEST CARRIER For shippers

No carrier? No problem!

Allocating transports on the spot market can require an enormous manual effort since many carriers need to be contacted, often manually by telephone or e-mail. But that is not the way it should work.

With Best Carrier you receive available spot shipments across your network in one place.

Share the spot request to your trusted network with one single click and let incoming offers come to you automatically. Make efficient use of available loading space in your network and significantly reduce costs. Best Carrier enables you to actively utilize empty kilometers with no additional effort.
 

How it works

Spot Buying simplified

Relying on long-term contracts does not match anymore with todays challenges, current dilemmas require modern and flexible solutions. A digitally enabled spot market strategy serves unplanned freight best - and with Best Carrier, we provide you with the transparency and market insight necessary to quickly and reliably find capacity in the market, no matter the current conditions.

  • Publish transport and automatically invite your trusted carriers to make an offer​
  • Carriers submit offers
  • Accept the best offer and allocate transport
  • React fast to any market condition and secure capacity
  • Find the best truck with one click in 15 minutes

Facts and figures

13
%
Reductions of empty runs by up to 13%.
10
%
Transport cost savings of up to 10%.
BENEFITS

The Flexibility you need

You need solutions that meet the challenge of dynamic and volatile markets. Best Carrier gives you the flexibility you need, no matter the current market conditions. Whether you use spot strategically in proactively pushing selected shipments from your contracted volume to the spot market before entering the routing guide, or reactively, when carriers reject transports and you need to find capacity quick.

No matter the scenario, it takes just one click to switch your transport order and tender on the spot market. Move from rogue spot buying towards predictable and competitive spot rates - with Best Carrier.

BENEFITS

Data Driven and Automated

Best Carrier lets you allocate transports in a highly automated and flexible way. Make use of built-in, data-driven offer predictions to get an indicator of the attractiveness of lanes and available market capa cities.

Use price prediction and dynamically change you assignment approach when you can buy more efficient via the spot market.

Best carrier helps you to better leverage available capacity in your network. Get competitive rates, for any scenario. Best Carrier saves you 10% on average on freight costs.

BENEFITS

Better Carrier Engagement

Offer more flexibility on selected transports and benefit from more cost-optimized offers by enabling alternative transportation routes to your carriers, and more flexible loading and unloading times.

Increase satisfaction with your carriers by opening up greater volume, while helping them to optimize their transportation planning and filling empty miles.

BENEFITS

Assigning Green

Every year, billions of kilometers are driven by trucks with nothing in it, resulting in massive CO2 emissions.

Best Carrier helps to reduce empty kilometers by predicting available capacities nearby the loading location and easily lets you assign transports to your carriers who are close.

Make sustainability a higher priority and automatically select the most eco-friendly carrier by pre-selected criteria.

When reducing empty kilometers and COemissions, everyone wins - the shipper, the carrier and the environment.

BENEFITS

It´s in the platform

Managing transportation is not only about managing costs.

Joining our Network and Transportation management platform will automatically enable you for additional, seamlessly integrated solutions and services such as Market Insights, Real Time Visibility, Carbon Visibility, and many more.

Benefit from unmatched opportunities to improve transparency, save costs, enable sustainability and reduce empty trucks, cut waiting times and enable efficient and fully digital end-to-end processes.

9 STEPS TO LEVERAGE THE SPOT MARKET

Super-charge your transport strategy

This eBook provides a comprehensive overview of the spot freight market and explains how to leverage it to improve your procurement strategy, your transport assignment operations and your business’s bottom line.

Primary features

Automated cost control 

With one mouse click all transports can be assigned to selected carriers at contracted freight rates.

Automated allocation

Predefined allocation guidelines automate the assignment of transports and reduce the amount of manual communication effort.

System interfaces

Due to an extensive number of system interfaces, Transporeon guarantees smooth data exchange to virtually any system.

Simplified cost optimisation

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

Worldwide availability

The cloud-based platform provides worldwide access to your transport assignment and logistics management.

Compliant documentation

Documentation of all steps with time stamp, as well as reporting and export functions.

Homogeneous system

A unified system for all parties involved enables a quick and uncomplicated exchange between shipper and carrier.

With one mouse click all transports can be assigned to selected carriers at contracted freight rates.

Predefined allocation guidelines automate the assignment of transports and reduce the amount of manual communication effort.

Due to an extensive number of system interfaces, Transporeon guarantees smooth data exchange to virtually any system.

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

The cloud-based platform provides worldwide access to your transport assignment and logistics management.

Documentation of all steps with time stamp, as well as reporting and export functions.

A unified system for all parties involved enables a quick and uncomplicated exchange between shipper and carrier.

Customers that trust us

Watch how Kronospan benefits from Transporeon Execution

Celebrating twenty years of positive collaboration and partnership between Kronospan/Kaindl and Transporeon.

CASE STUDY

“Best Carrier” optimizes and automates transport assignments at Lufthansa Cargo

Since February 2021, an automation module developed by Transporeon especially for Lufthansa Cargo AG has ensured even faster and more efficient processing of the approximately 1,600 ad-hoc transports per month that the company carries by road within Europe in its airport-to-airport business. The selection of required carriers, the awarding of contracts and the processing are now largely automated. The air freight specialist thus achieves an automation rate of 95%. The foundation for this successful module launch was laid by 14 years of efficient use of the Transporeon platform.

“Best Carrier” optimizes and automates transport assignments at Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo’s European ad hoc transports are allocated daily via the spot market. For many years this has been done efficiently, speedily and reliably via Transporeon's Best Carrier module.
95%
Level of automation.
4-5
Offers on average.
Cost Savings
Optimized freight rates on the spot market.
Time Savings
Time savings in transport assignments and related activities.
CUSTOMER VOICES

We asked our customers: Why spot?

Leading industry players explain why and how strategically managing spot freight is crucial in the current volatile market scenario.

CLIENT VOICES

What our clients say 

Creating value throughout the organization.

Allocating our ADHOC transports via the Transporeon platform saves us time and money. The new automation tool relieves our dispatching enormously. We are glad that we have found such a reliable and competent partner in Transporeon.

Alfred Stricker, Advisor / Referent Road Feeder Service
Lufthansa Cargo

With transport assignment from Transporeon, we and our carriers save time and money. This is great: with Transporeon everyone wins.

Kurt Münk
Head of Freight Management, Knauf

Time, knowledge and money are central resources today. Transporeon services save us a lot of time. We use this time to inform ourselves in the system about  who is inviting for tenders or transport orders via Best Carrier. The platform has enabled us to intensify our cooperation with many customers and to grow more strongly than ever before.

Mateusz Noszkowicz
Business Development Manager, ABC-CZEPCZYŃSKI

PRODUCTS

Explore more of our digital freight solutions

Together our products work in harmony to increase transport efficiency along the full lifecycle of freight activities.

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.

Transport Execution Hub

No-Touch Order

No-Touch Order
  • Automated shipment execution processes.
  • Fewer empty runs.
  • Cut process costs by up to 30%.

Transport Execution Hub

Attachment Services

Attachment Services
  • Pre-fill and validate fields from the Transporeon platform
  • Easily transfer documents to ERP systems via the interface
  • All relevant parties maintain access to the latest versions of all documents
  • Get automatic reminders and notifications for requirements documents
  • Instantaneous and traceable digital transmission of all documents

Transport Execution Hub

Surcharge Management

Surcharge Management
  • all events are categorized
  • extra costs are managed with a click
  • implementation into an ERP system is possible
  • shipment information is saved to the ERP system automatically 
  • Surcharge Management is designed to ensure compliant user behavior

Visibility Hub

Visibility

Visibility
  • Reduce check calls and automate processes.
  • Increase performance and customer satisfaction.
  • Reduce wait and dwell times with more accurate ETAs.
  • Increase your on-time performance and avoid penalties  
  • Reduce CO2 emissions and empty mileage.

Freight Audit and Payment Hub

Analytics

Analytics
  • Pre-fill and validate fields from the Transporeon platform.
  • Easily transfer documents to ERP systems via the interface.
  • All relevant parties maintain access to the latest versions of all documents.
  • Get automatic reminders and notifications for requirements documents.
  • Instantaneous and traceable digital transmission of all documents.

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