Today’s spot quote freight process is inefficient, difficult to audit, not cost efficient and can lead to cost overruns and revenue leakage.
Shippers find this process time consuming and frustrating. For the same request forwarders can quote different services and different charges making the task of comparing quotes very difficult. As a shipper who might be unfamiliar with all the charges, units of measure, and processes, it becomes difficult to believe the forwarder offered the correct and complete service.
When it comes to billing, the invoice might not reflect the charges that were quoted and hidden charges are billed. With this process being this time consuming shippers are not keen to try new forwarders.
Our vision is to simplify this process for shippers when requesting for and comparing freight spot quotes.
For Forwarders the spot quote freight process is just as inefficient and time consuming.
The sales teams of Forwarders are constantly challenged to generate new business and concurrently handle the administrative tasks of creating and maintaining quotations. Sales needs to ascertain the cost and ensure minimum gross margins. And management requires periodic updates on won, new and upcoming opportunities.
Operations has the challenge of ensuring they have the latest quotation, that the cost calculated by sales matches the cost received, and that the correct charge codes are used.
Benefits to using Evalurate
A systematic process for requesting, comparing and managing freight spot quotes
A streamlined systems for quoting and registering freight quotes and performing sales analytics
An application for storing and accessing freight rate quotations that is auditable
The Cost?
Salaries, for roles such as sales, procurement or operations, tend to be fixed monthly expenses. Therefore, our subscription fees are fixed and user based. We do not earn any commissions or income from the business transaction between the client and their vendor. Therefore the cost for using our application is transparent and can be budgeted.
For the Client the subscription packages have the following features:
Starter
Get to know us
Send freight rate requests to multiple forwarders simultaneously
Receive and compare forwarder quotes
Display cost itemized or as lumpsum
Activate shipments and notify unsuccessful forwarders
Standard
All the features with flexibility
Send freight rate requests to multiple forwarders simultaneously
Receive and compare forwarder quotes
Display cost itemized or as lumpsum
Activate shipments and notify unsuccessful forwarders
View requests and quotes older than 30 days
Resubmit previous requests
Standard Plus
All the features with 17% savings
Send freight rate requests to multiple forwarders simultaneously
Receive and compare forwarder quotes
Display cost itemized or as lumpsum
Activate shipments and notify unsuccessful forwarders
View requests and quotes older than 30 days
Resubmit previous requests
For the Forwarder the subscription packages have the following features:
Starter
Get to know us
Receive freight rate requests from client
Use worksheets, view cost and sales simultaneously, to prepare and send quoted
Receive notification of shipment activation
Create vendor initiated quotes
Standard
All the features
Receive freight rate requests from client
Use worksheets, view cost and sales simultaneously, to prepare and send quoted
Receive notification of shipment activation
Create vendor initiated quotes
Receive notice of unsucessful quotes
View requests and quotes older than 30 days
Standard Plus
17% Savings
Receive freight rate requests from client
Use worksheets, view cost and sales simultaneously, to prepare and send quoted
Receive notification of shipment activation
Create vendor initiated quotes
Receive notice of unsucessful quotes
View requests and quotes older than 30 days