Ditch old-school procurement.
Upgrade to RFP Automation.
Scale and grow your business with RFP Automation – the cutting-edge tool built right into Shipwell’s dynamic TMS platform. In the new era of frequent mini-bidding for freight procurement, automating the process saves time and money while ensuring the best value for the budget.
Talk to an expertRFP Automation in action
See exactly how Shipwell’s innovative RFP Automation works to help scale your process, save time and money, and provide solutions to the challenges of frequent market fluctuations.
Transform your procurement process from scrambled to scalable
Scale processes
Unlock access to increased freight options and capacity while eliminating the need for endless emails, spreadsheets and phone tag
Save money
Get instant and clear visibility into market conditions to ensure you never overpay, gaining an advantage through automated negotiations while easily avoiding lanes above market price
Choose best value
Secure the best balance between price and reliability with access to long-term bid acceptance rates and carrier performance insights from aggregated lane-level data
Eliminate the back-and-forth of manual processes
In a fraction of the time it takes to send one manual RPF, you can complete dozens of requests, receive bids and execute contracts – all within a centralized TMS platform
- View detailed data on each carrier and use tags to select the ones that best fit your specifications
- Set one deadline for all carriers to submit bids and view all bid data on one easy-to-compare screen
- Communicate, verify and book quickly without time-consuming and tedious emails, spreadsheets and phone calls
Make overpaying on bids a thing of the past
Avoid overpaying through visibility into detailed analysis of all carriers’ bids and how they stack up to current market prices
- View list of bids organized from lowest to highest price and showing if they come in under, over or at market rates
- Provide feedback to high-priced carriers within the system, allowing them to revise bids until the deadline
- Leverage your up-to-date knowledge of market prices to gain the upper hand in negotiations
Ensure consistent performance for every shipment
Move forward with the bids that offer the best balance between price and lane-level performance data and acceptance rates
- See at a glance which carriers tend towards pricing volatility, based on seasonality, weather or other factors
- Learn which lanes have high rejection rates, so you can avoid potential problems down the road
- Exclude overpriced or risky carriers from your list with this click of a button, and choose your best options