Make logistics-relevant purchasing requirements usable in a structured way
In purchasing, it is not only the price that counts — but the quality of the service description. Anyone who advertises a product or a transport service must define the requirements completely and clearly. Otherwise, miscalculations, renegotiations or operational problems arise. Loading and unloading requirements are particularly relevant for industrial transport. If they are not recorded in a structured manner in the tendering process, this has a direct effect on offer prices, service quality and feasibility. Loady ensures that transport-relevant requirements in the eProcurement process are complete, standardized and digitally usable — as a basis for realistic offers and stable implementation.
Incomplete requirements distort offers
Shopping is about getting the best deal. To do this, the advertised service must be clearly described — including all logistics-relevant factors. If important requirements are missing when describing transport services, this has consequences.
Especially for freight tenders with hundreds or thousands of lanes, requirements are often compiled manually. Technical specifics, restrictions or location-specific features are not fully or uniformly taken into account.
If a transport is awarded on the basis of incomplete requirements, it may happen that the contracted freight forwarder is unable to provide certain transports at all — because there are no technical or location-related requirements. The supposedly cheapest provider was then only favourable because requirements were not fully covered.
Misunderstandings and queries
Incidents and delays
Dissatisfaction and, in the worst case, customer complaints
Consequences from a purchasing perspective: renegotiations, unplanned additional costs, limited comparability of offers, in extreme cases, new tenders
Competitive advantage in purchasing
Anyone who defines requirements precisely negotiates on a reliable basis. Companies that integrate transport-relevant requirements in eProcurement in a structured manner:
- have a better time-to-market and place tenders in a shorter period of time
- reduce renegotiations and additional costs
- avoid repetitive tenders
- increase the quality of their purchasing decisions
- reduce uncertainty for providers and get more accurate offers
- strengthen their position vis-à-vis logistics partners
Efficiency here does not come from stronger price pressure — but from a better data basis.
How Loady supports eProcurement processes
1. Efficient data preparation for freight tenders
Transport requirements are available in a structured manner per lane and can be used directly in the tendering process. Freight forwarders receive the cost-relevant factors:
- standardized
- digitally usable
- polyglot
- Downloadable in a structured way
over 60% less effort required for data preparation
higher offer quality
better comparability
lower risk of misalignments
2. Reliable calculation in material purchasing
Unloading requirements are also cost-relevant when purchasing materials. Suppliers calculate transport costs into their offers. With Loady, unloading requests can be activated directly at their own location or warehouse.
correct transport calculation by suppliers
realistic offer prices
less renegotiations
higher delivery reliability
3. More flexibility in logistics purchasing
Structured requirements make it possible to use logistics partners more flexibly. New freight forwarders do not need any previous historical knowledge, as requirements are available in a transparent and standardized manner.
Faster onboarding
more competition in the bidding process
higher planning security
more stable procurement decisions
eProcurement and sourcing systems that complement Loady
Strategic eProcurement and sourcing systems can only reliably compare offers if the underlying performance requirements are clearly and standardized. Loady provides transport-relevant loading and unloading requirements in a structured manner and makes them directly usable for tendering, offering and awarding processes — without changing existing procurement systems. Typical sourcing and procurement environments for our customers:
- SAP Ariba®
- Coupa
- Jaggaer
- Transporeon
- Occon
- Ivalua
- Oracle Procurement Cloud
- GEP SMART
- Onventis
Freight exchanges and logistics platforms that complement Loady
Freight exchanges can only realistically compare transport offers if cost-relevant requirements are met in full. Loady integrates transport-related requirements directly into spot tenders and freight tenders and makes them available to freight forwarders in a structured and multilingual manner — without additional individual coordinations.Typical freight exchanges and logistics platforms that our customers use:
- Transporeon
- TIMOCOM
- SAP Business Network for Logistics (SAP BN4L)
- MercuryGate
- descartes
- more Freight Exchange and tender solutions
Using data along the logistics process
Loady as a link between purchasing and operational logistics
In eProcurement, services are defined and awarded — operationally, they are planned, scheduled and processed later.
Loady acts as a neutral link between these phases: Transport-relevant requirements, which are defined or approved in purchasing in a structured manner, are then directly available for ERP, TMS and yard processes as well as for communication with logistics partners.
This does not create isolated tender information, but a consistent data basis — from award to operational implementation. Loady connects existing systems via a common, standardized database.
Why this is relevant now
Cost pressure, volatile markets and more flexible logistics networks increase the requirements for transparency and comparability in purchasing. At the same time, tenders must be prepared more quickly and evaluated more precisely. Enable structured, standardized requirements:
- faster tender cycles
- reliable calculation
- lower operational costs
- better decision quality
Digital tendering alone is not enough. The quality of the underlying performance definition is decisive.
Stefanie Kraus
Co-Founder & CEO
If necessary, we can help you calculate the benefit case, which shows the benefits and savings potential of Loady for your company — with a comprehensible method, real figures and a clear ROI assessment for a well-founded decision.
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Industry solutions
Precise delivery processes are crucial in the automotive industry — Loady ensures clear transport requirements and prevents delays.
Whether raw materials, specialty chemicals or distribution - Loady delivers clear transportation requirements and prevents delays.
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In the environment of large construction sites, dynamically adaptable, clear loading and unloading requirements are essential for safety, efficiency and on-time delivery.
With clear loading requirements, route planning and time window management run better - and logistics centers can better calculate when goods arrive and are redistributed.
In particular, liquid transport due to the risk of product contamination — but also deliveries of packaged goods — benefits from clear requirements for safe loading and unloading.
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In industrial production, clear requirements help to reduce loading times and errors, and thus also rework, which ensures the flow of materials and has a positive effect on production and logistics costs.
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In mechanical engineering, Loady supports the mostly time-critical delivery of materials and the delivery of finished goods - often in special sizes with special customer requirements.
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Logistics service providers benefit from clear requirements and reduce waiting and downtime, empty and extra km — they also enable new drivers to be onboarded quickly.
Energy generation, waste incineration and recycling are part of KRITIS, whose requirements Loady sustainably supports, particularly when instructing truck drivers and service providers.
Connect Loady to your business processes
Loady fits directly into existing ERP, TMS, yard, eCommerce, procurement and telematics systems, so that all charging requirements are automatically available in its own corporate and logistics systems.
Support as needed
We'll guide you through the onboarding process and, with introductions and best practices, ensure that your team is quickly trained and can take action. If necessary, we can help you create and update data sets in Loady.
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