To simplify and ensure transparency of logistics quotes, we at the SeaRates team have launched a full-fledged solution for creating individual structured quote offers for the transportation of any cargo type, mode of transport, route, and other characteristics of the shipment. Get a practical guide on how to use the Structural Quotes for your logistics and trading operations.
How does it work?
A proven user of a SeaRates global logistics marketplace with a Shipper type account should fill out the Request a Quote form with detailed specifications of the necessary shipment requirements. Then, the favorable freight market proposition came from real carriers. Let’s discover this path closer.
Each of the shippers' requests can be found in All Shipping Leads and the Logistics Map tool.
Starting with the All Shipping Leads - SeaRates database of streamline organized active shippers’ requests.
The All Shipping Leads page is placed on the top menu in the ‘Services’ section. There is a list of all valid requests for quotations. For each one, users can check request details and see the available freight rates going to the Logistics Explorer tool via the ‘View rates’ button.
Then the ‘Quote’ button, moving to the SeaRates Vendors landing page to familiarize them with Vendors’ possibilities of rate promotion, structural quoting, logistics management, finance reliability, and more.
The same real requests for shipping quotations you will see in the Logistics Map tool but in accordance with other selection and filtering logic.
The main audience of the Structural Quotes capabilities are users with DFA Premium Member and SeaRates Vendors account types. On both apps, users with such account types can apply for the ‘Quote’ button and go to the Structural Quotes integrated with the Virtual Office ‘Request’ tab to obtain International Shipping Quotes.
We at SeaRates have designed a simple and advanced system to choose leads and create individual quotations for the components that freight offers. The following two ways are available:
for shipping components on the "Breakdown" tab:
for a single shipping rate on the "Lumpsum" tab:
Under the ‘Lumpsum’ tab, we have implemented the display of information about enabled services in the quote for better management and visibility of pricing.
Moreover, our DFA Premium Members can easily find and check the shipping or warehousing leads they have already sent out in the 'Sent offers' tab.
Also, for unregistered users, Shippers, and DFA Standard Members, on the All Shipping Leads page, the ‘Become a Premium Member’ button is displayed, as is the ‘Quote’ button in the Logistics Map tool, which leads to the SeaRates Vendors landing page.
After submitting a quote, the shipper, who is the request owner, will automatically be notified about it, get started benefiting from the quote offer, and prepare the shipments together with our carrier.
The SeaRates team has the newest information on all quotation offers. The Structural Quotes is effectively a solution to streamline logistics for each party in the supply chain. Our customers have met their transportation needs, and we have, in the meantime, extended our network to achieve the next level of collaboration in the global logistics industry.
Take a look at our demo to gain a better understanding of the process:
Advantages of the Structural Quotes
Let’s sum up the main benefits of the SeaRates Structural Freight Quotes:
Comprehensive quotation approach
The new solution allows for achieving the highest level of pricing transparency, providing a range of options to quote according to customers’ requirements. In a few steps, you obtain customized pricing solutions due to all the information about the cargo details, requests, financing, additional services, and much more.
Opening the way to cooperation
Once the shipper’s request was submitted, it became part of the SeaRates marketplace, with further cooperation opportunities. The requests from real shippers, consisting of specific needs, meet individual market options to ship from the most trusted and verified logistics providers - SeaRates Vendors and DFA Premium Members. Choose requests from All Shipping Leads and the Logistics Map tool to gather active customers, engaging them with favorable offers, including freight forwarding quotes, created in your Virtual Office.
Enhanced user profit
SeaRates Vendors and DFA Premium Members have the extended possibility of organizing shipping quotes due to their customers and business conditions. The opportunity to calculate each part from slight to necessary is the key to profitable shipping.
Conclusion
Structural Quotes was created to achieve next-level quotation transparency, easy management, and enhanced customer service in the simplest way possible, just by making quotations at SeaRates.com. Such an intuitive and comprehensive interface assists logistics providers worldwide in gaining improved logistics and trading flows.
Get the solution for simplifying cooperation in the entire supply chain on a single convenient marketplace. Each need is completely considered during cooperation between the shipper and the reliable freight forwarder, carrier, and ship schedules. We comprehensively solve the daily challenges of businesses globally by streamlining logistics operations with our IT tools.
Contact us at [email protected] to start a profitable path of improving logistics and trade through intuitive, advanced solutions and products our team provides for your specific needs.
