About shipX
shipX is a Collaborative Transportation Management Solution which enables shippers and logistics service providers to manage entire logistics processes, right from load initiation to the final delivery of shipment, smoothly and efficiently. shipX provides increased visibility to the operations, optimizes shipments and brings transparency in the operations. This results in savings in freight and operational costs.
Visibility and Performance Measurement
Quite often, it is very difficult to measure the performance of your service providers. The main reason is critical information about specific events such as vehicle placement details and delivery details is not captured. shipX provides simple and easy-to-use portal to capture specific events in your logistics operations. Subsequently, shipX provides visibility to performance of various transporters. You can measure your service providers on specific KPIs like on-time vehicle placement, on-time delivery and other such performance indicators.
Load Tendering and Vehicle Assignment
In situations where volume of your shipments is high, it is a very difficult and tedious process to manually determine the transporter for each and every shipment. You may have contracts with multiple transporters for different lanes, types of vehicles, services etc. Manual assignment is prone to errors and will not result in correct and optimal assignment of transporters and vehicles. shipX can automatically assign transporters and vehicles based on all the constraints which saves time and freight cost. Assignment of transporter to each shipment is also communicated to transporters automatically, giving them more time for the placement of vehicle. This brings transparency in interaction with your transporters, resulting in improved efficiency and reduced freight cost.
Spot Procurement
Shopping for domestic freight transport services using traditional processes is very tedious and time consuming. The process involves multiple phone calls and e-mails, back-and-forth clarifications, hard-to-understand add-on charges and surcharges, and complicated fine-print. Most shippers, therefore, tend to work with one or two service providers for their freight needs, while there may be other comparable service providers that have significantly better rates. With shipX, you can send your quote request to multiple transporters. shipX sends your quote request only to those service providers who can service your request based on the geography, type of vehicle, type of service requested and any other considerations. Transporters can respond to your quote using portal. You can access shipX's easy-to-use portal to get multiple options that meet your domestic freight shipping requirement, compare them side-by-side, and book your shipment with the service provider of your choice. shipX also displays all relevant information regarding the transporter for you to make your choice and gives you the opportunity to rate the performance of the transporter after the shipment has been completed.
Consolidation and Route Planning
When you have several part loads to be delivered to various customers or to be picked up from multiple suppliers, it is very difficult and inefficient to manually plan trips. shipX helps you to create trips by consolidating multiple deliveries or pickups by region, weight, volume and other constraints and reduce your freight cost.
Invoice Matching
Typically, tranporters prepare invoice manually and are susceptible to errors. When you receive an invoice from a transporter,
it is very difficult to manually verify the invoice for various factors such as
- whether rates applied are as per contract
- whether shipment has actually been delivered
- whether shipment parameters are correct : location, type of vehicle, weight etc.
- whether same shipment is being billed twice
When volume of shipments is high, the number of transactions to be verified is also very high. Verification process is time consuming and is often prone to errors.
shipX helps you by automatically matching the shipment information with contract and computes the expected freight charge for the shipment.
This can be verified against the invoice submitted by the transporter before making any actual payment which avoids any leakages and results in savings of freight cost.
