Features

eSOFS™ is designed to help ocean freight procurement teams achieve better results and reduced cost from their procurement processes.

At its core, the service provides:

• Audit and benchmarking of current carrier contracts
• Management and completion of the competitive e-sourcing event based on your objectives and scenarios
• Carrier/freight forwarder selection, process allows for identification of your best selections and the cost of change
• Final event management in collaboration with our experts
• Contract implementation, and post-event market analysis and review of contract performance in quarterly business reviews with carriers/freight forwarders

Benefits

• Understand if your existing contracted rates and service levels beat industry standards
• Manage and measure Historical vs New vs Benchmark rates and services throughout the lifecycle
• Confidence in negotiation position and in cost budgeting
• Reduce the workload of your team and improve productivity
• Optimise and choose using a customisable scenario analysis builder to understand transit time impact on inventory carrying costs
• Reduce transport/inventory and/or internal costs
• Have the Drewry team next to you for advice when those final votes are cast
• Ongoing assistance to implant and measure your decisions and Standard Operating Procedures with all providers, through meaningful KPIs and scorecards.

In their words...

“As a global leader in protection solutions seeking to transition from NVOCC to direct ocean carrier contracts, we selected Drewry’s e-Sourcing Ocean Freight Solution (eSOFS™) to manage this year’s ocean freight procurement event. Drewry’s advisory team brought professionalism and invaluable insight to all stages of the RFI and RFQ process, from managing the global tender and liaising with bidders to scenario analytics and inter-party communication and co-ordination.

Our team was impressed by both the team appointed and the solution presented - and very satisfied with the results achieved. I would be happy to recommend Drewry to other companies.”

Andrew J. Gillespie, Director, Global Logistics, Ansell Healthcare Products

May 2017

"We engaged Drewry to provide advisory RFI/RFQ services for our group’s large and complex Ocean Freight Global Procurement Event. Drewry met our requirements and provided a high level of expertise, advanced analytics and responsive communication with all parties, under tight deadlines. As a result, we were able to obtain improved contractual terms and services from ocean providers."

Vice President, Indirect procurement, US-Headquartered, global technology company

Nov 2016