Global freight procurement and tender platform
e-Bid Freight
e-Bid Freight is a web service that automates global logistics tendering. Beautifully designed and easy to use, it is a simple but extremely powerful cloud-based system. With e-Bid Freight, you can select carriers and forwarders accurately and efficiently by automating and labor-saving the bidding process. The service is designed specifically for global logistics and requires no special training. We promise you unprecedented speed and accuracy.
What Challenges Do You Face in Freight Procurement?
Time-Consuming Excel Processing
RFQ collection and data consolidation take time, while errors require repeated corrections and recalculations.
Scattered Information Across Emails
Questions, responses, and revisions are scattered across emails and files, making information sharing and version control difficult.
Complex Rate Comparisons
Comparing freight rates, surcharges, and service conditions across different transport modes and lanes is complex and time-consuming.
Limited Activity Visibility
Tracking who reviewed, commented, or awarded bids is difficult, making it hard to trace decisions and actions.
Cross-Team Collaboration Gaps
Sharing project information, responsibilities, and progress across headquarters, overseas offices, and departments is challenging.
Procurement Transparency
Ensuring bid accuracy, fair supplier selection, and consistent reviews is difficult without a transparent procurement process.
5 Key Benefits of EBF
Standardized Freight Tendering
Built on freight tendering practices across industries, EBF provides a standardized platform adaptable to diverse procurement needs.
Flexible RFQ Configuration
Customize RFQ fields and requirements to fit your business needs while maintaining a consistent tendering process.
Automation & Efficiency
Automate bid validation, consolidation, and comparison to reduce manual work and focus on strategic procurement decisions.
Transparency & Reliability
Centralize bid information, communications, and award decisions to improve visibility, reduce errors, and support informed decisions.
Global Team Collaboration
Connect headquarters, overseas offices, and departments through role-based access and a shared procurement platform.
EBF in Numbers
60+
Shipper Companies
2,800+
Bidder Accounts
CUSTOMER STORIES
How Shippers Use E-BID FREIGHT
Shipper case
Electronics
We have about 500 lanes to bid on, primarily air and FCL; because of the large number of Door to Door lanes, we invite about 20 companies, primarily forwarders, to bid on these lanes. We compare mainly rates and services and award bids to one or two companies per lane.
Shipper case
Chemicals
Bidding is conducted once a year for 10,000 containers equivalent, mainly FCL. As a rule, it is Port to Port, so we invite about 30 companies, mainly shipping companies. Due to the large volume of goods, we conduct multiple rounds of bidding and award three companies per lane.
Shipper case
NVOCC
We participate in shipper's excel based bidding. e-Bid is used to obtain rates from over 20 shipping companies. best rates and services obtained from e-Bid are dropped into shipper's excel and submitted.
What's New e-Bid Freight
November 17, 2020
Our service was featured in the Nippon Kaiji Shimbun, a daily newspaper covering all aspects of transportation and logistics. Our service is introduced as a service that is expanding its use by greatly reducing the workload.
September 26, 2019
Our service was featured in Daily Cargo, a general logistics magazine. Our service is introduced as a service that automates the complicated work of international logistics bidding, which requires advanced comparative analysis.