The Importance of Becoming a Digital Efficient Logistics Company

I'm starting a new article sequence where we will discuss how logistics businesses can become digital efficient logistics companies. The digitization trend is becoming super important for logistics service providers. This article will explain why this is happening and what forces logistics businesses to go digital. As the logistics industry is enormous, different business players have different needs and budgets. And on the other hand, there are a lot of digital solutions with different functionality and pricing options. Therefore in each article, we will discuss different solutions and provide you with guidelines.

Why the digital way is the only way?

We have two different opinions about digital solutions in the industry. Some understand the value digital solutions can bring, and others see this trend as a buzzword. In my opinion, this is not a buzzword, and every logistics service provider needs to become digital efficient.

Because firstly, your customers (shippers) are investing heavily in digital solutions, the key benefits that digital solutions provide is the interconnectivity between different kinds of systems and data sharing options. Therefore, it's easier for an efficient digital company to do business with companies at the same level. Therefore, ?if LSPs will not invest in becoming digital, there may be no business in the future for them.

Secondly, your competitors are investing heavily in such solutions because of all automation and other efficiencies that those solutions provide. So without digital solutions, LSPs, in the end, will have higher operational costs.

Thirdly, digital freight forwarders threaten to eliminate traditional businesses from the value chain. At the moment, digital freight forwarders, in my opinion, have only one advantage compared to traditional businesses. They have many digital solutions (visibility, workflow automation, API, and others) which provide value to the shippers and differentiate them from the competition. If LSPs do not pay attention to this, they can lose customers in the long run.

And Lastly, digital solutions provide value for your customers and make companies' operations more efficient, lower OPEX, decrease error rates, and relocate more time to value-generating activities. Therefore, I do not see why some logistics businesses are delaying. Moreover, competition in the tech industry is so big that now every size company can find digital solutions for as low as 1000 USD per month.?

A Solution for SEA freight forwarders

And the first solution which I want to introduce to you is which can help follow the digital path in the sea freight is Called Freightify .

It's a one-stop automation solution for all of your Sea needs, so it's especially valuable for Freight forwarders. I?like this solution because those working in the freight forwarding industry understand the pain of looking for quotes at different carrier sites and sending those quotes to customers. It can take ages. And the worst thing about that is that your employees hate doing this, and organizations can lose much business because it's way better to make sales than do manual quoting.

Imagine how much more business you could get and how much more value you could create for your customers if you could make your quoting process.

And Freightify provides just that; it connects with all of the biggest NVOCCs and major carriers, taking out the complexity and manual labor.

How can Freightify bring more business to you within your network?

• Reduced dialogue with suppliers on spot rates. Live Rates & Schedules of global carriers such as Maersk, Hapag Lloyd, Evergreen, CMA?CGM, COSCO, OOCL, ONE, MSC, ECU,?Vanguard, etc., fetched within seconds on one?platform
• Instantly fetch your rates from agents & carriers. Fully automated rate-sheet management for FCL, LCL & AIR of any format - Contract,?NAC, FAK, FMC
• No wait time for quotes. Connect with any forwarder without any time bound for instant quote sharing
• Customer-facing portal. Your customers can look up sailing schedules & custom rates and book directly with you?anytime
• Track & Trace. Track containers with container/BL numbers and receive automated milestone?updates?

In other words, it's 'Everything a ?freight forwarder needs in one system. ?And this solution can be used for any size and budget company operating in the sea freight business because the ROI is quite easily measured, eliminating manual work. And when you add the ability to earn more and make more bookings over a day, you will understand that you need to have this solution.

And I have great news for my newsletter readers. If you book a demo through the link provided in this edition, you will get to use the solution for 7 days for free.

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About the Author:

Thomas Ananjevas is a supply chain professional with 15 years of experience purchasing and selling Logistic’s services and building a supply chain from scratch. He founded a consulting, training, and staffing company that works exclusively with the logistics industry. Tomas is currently helping logistics companies implement the necessary changes that ensure business growth and continuity. You can arrange a time to talk with tomas by clicking?here.