Becoming a digital forwarder
Transmate helps freight forwarders to become a digital freight-forwarder
check it outAre you a freight forwarder that wants to make the digital transformation?
Transmate helps classic freight forwarders to become digital: manage all the shipment requests until customer invoice. Freight forwarders can connect all their partners (customers, customs offices, agents, carriers) and centralize all information in a single platform.
A win for the forwarders: they can manage all their files centrally, track costs and revenue and increase value. A win for their customers: they can track all their shipments in the customer portal, consult invoices, and quickly initiate shipment requests.
Link with your customers in an easy-to-use platform
Manage shipment requests and bookings
Share documents, shipment status, billing information and more
Track costs, generate customer invoices and calculate margins.
Link your Customers
Invite your partners to the platform. Invite as many as you want. Once linked, they can:
Manage shipments
Customers can request shipment through the platform or you can create them based on external information. Transmate can handle complex shipments:
Customer invoicing
Generate customer invoices from the platform based on various pricing rules
What are the benefits?
For you as a freight forwarder:
- Maintain all files in a single platform
- Give customers access to your own customer portal
- Request prices from the market
- Convert into customer invoices
- Track profitability
Thanks to Transmate's freight forwarder module, you can centralize all your files in a single platform. You can give your customers access, so they can track progress, consult documents and costs.
As a freight forwarder, you can requests prices from ocean carriers and convert these in a customer invoice. Embedded reporting allows you to track margins and profitability.
Furthermore, providing the customer portal to your customers, will improve your value to them and increase loyalty!
For your customers:
- All current and historic shipments in a single platform
- All documents, notes and costs in a single space
- Faster shipment requests by duplicating historic shipment files.
- Reduce errors
Bind your customers to your services by offering them a customer portal. Your customers can consult shipments, create shipment requests, and track costs. Providing a crisp overview of ongoing, past, and future shipments, you can bind your customers to you as the preferred partner to work with.
Furthermore, API integrations are possible both for your customers and for you, simplifying the flows even further.
How does it work?
Transmate can be used as a stand-alone platform as well as a fully-integrated bolt-on to your ERP, WMS or CMS. As a stand-alone, you can get started with minimal IT requirements. It is possible to get started as stand-alone and to implement a data connection later on.
- Stand-alone
- Fully integrated with ERP, WMS or CMS
Transmate is cloud-based and accessible from anywhere, on various devices. Data is encrypted and stored securely. Once your supply chain partner has accepted the inivte, he can see relevant information that you share with them. Automated messages and notifications are triggered from the system and provide updates to carriers, shippers and consignees.
Transmate offers various modules, spanning the full value chain:
- Freight procurement
- Freight bookings
- Transport execution
- Invoice handling
- Reporting
Integrate all your logistics processes in a single platform, while linking your value chain members in the cloud. Share relevant information, execute your logistics and control your costs.