Loady and OCCON today announced the start of a strategic partnership aimed at making freight tendering processes significantly more efficient, transparent, and error-free for companies.

By integrating Loady into OCCON’s tender processes, customers can drastically reduce the effort required to prepare tender requirements. Uniform and transparently provided loading requirements for all bidders minimize the risk of calculation errors. The result: fewer misunderstandings, fewer mistakes in transport execution, and sustainable process optimization even after the tender has been awarded.

In turn, Loady customers benefit from the exceptional flexibility and service quality for which OCCON has long been recognized in the market. “Our cooperation with Loady offers our customers a double benefit: efficient, transparent processes on the one hand, and customized, flexible services on theother,” explains Sabrina Bähr, Managing Director of OCCON GmbH.

Stefanie Kraus, CEO of Loady GmbH, also emphasizes the importance of thepartnership:
“We are truly proud that OCCON, as a local provider of an internationally successful procurement solution, is directly integrating Loady. The added value for their customers was immediately clear to OCCON’s management: the resource-intensive and costly task of preparing data now comes to an end.”

Loady customers from large corporate environments are already using the platform in connection with major procurement and sourcing solutions. Freight forwarders invited to participate in tenders receive structured and traceable logistical requirements, which not only increases efficiency and quality in the bidding process but also reduces data preparation efforts by up to 80%.

Initial joint discussions with industrial customers are already underway. With this partnership, both companies reaffirm their commitment to driving innovation in logistics practice and securing long-term competitive advantages for their customers.

About Loady

Loady is a startup founded in Mannheim in 2023, originating from the chemical industry. With its central hub for standardized loading requirements, Loady enables shippers, consignees, and logistics service providers to collaborate seamlessly, digitally, and without media disruptions. For industrial logistics, this translates into more efficient and cost-effective processes, as well as a tangible contribution to achieving sustainability goals. Loady provides interfaces to common logistics applications, including SAP S/4HANA, as well as online views for dispatchers and drivers – available in 13 languages. Over 4,000 transport lanes in Europe and the US already benefit from reliable information.

More information at: www.loady.com

Press contact:
Stefanie Kraus, CEO
+49 (0) 151 2371 2351
stefanie.kraus@loady.com

About OCCON

OCCON GmbH is an independent, owner-managed consulting and software company with offices in Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, and Riga. It supports manufacturing and trading companies worldwide across various industries in the fields of procurement and logistics. The company stands for high service quality, customized concepts, and innovative solutions. Through its in-house developed platform u-tender, OCCON manages an annual procurement volume of USD 9 billion.

More information at: www.occon.de

Press contact:
Sabrina Bähr, Managing Director
+49 (0) 621 5968 3262-10
s.baehr@occon.de

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Loady is now officially part of the Microsoft Founders Hub for startups.

This partnership brings us closer to our goal in the world of digital logistics: "making logistics easier."

• Microsoft Founders Hub for startups supports Loady in harnessing the unlimited potential of AI through direct access to the latest AI models.
• Moreover, as partners, we receive personalized and expert guidance on AI and Cloud based solutions.

Mannheim, 20.06.2024  – Our new partnership with Microsoft for Startups brings us numerous benefits. The platform allows us free and discounted use of services like Microsoft 365, Azure, or Visual Studio. Powerful AI solutions like Azure OpenAI Service with security and compliance benefits will support and drive our efforts in optimizing and expanding our technological innovation landscape.

Abb. 1: Dennis Jantos (CTO of Loady GmbH)

“By joining the Founders Hub we are committing to our strategy to build our logistics platform on top of the Microsoft ecosystem like the Azure cloud with highest security and compliance standards to offer the best experience for our users and developers“, says Dennis Jantos, CTO of Loady.

Loady focuses on supporting transport logistics operations with reliable loading and unloading information through our “Master Data Sharing Platform.” This platform serves as a critical foundation for enhancing digital collaboration and automation within supply chains. Leveraging Microsoft Azure tools and services ensures we prioritize user-friendly experiences, bolster security measures, and promote data privacy, transparency, and trust. These elements are essential in meeting and exceeding the expectations of our customers and partners regarding service quality and reliability.

Loady dives into Artificial Intelligence

Loady’s AI transformation is just beginning. With Microsoft on our side, we are well-positioned to expand our presence in the international market. We look forward to what this membership will bring in terms of new developments and advancements.

CONTACT

Stefanie Kraus

+49 151 23712351

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About Loady
Loady is an intelligent platform for standardized logistics requirements. Acting as the Single Source of Truth that shippers, goods receivers, and carriers can rely on, Loady facilitates seamless collaboration among shippers, goods receivers, and carriers through a sophisticated synchronization model. This enables true digital integration within supply chain logistics. Loady features API interfaces integrated with key logistics systems and provides multilingual online views tailored for carriers and drivers.

Moreover, Loady enhances the transport of bulk and liquid products through a central database for pre-product restrictions and cleaning requirements.

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Finally, the decade-old problem of relevant information hidden in free text fields and in people’s heads is solved: Loady 1.0 is released. From now on, companies can maintain their site-specific and product-related logistics requirements in an adequate platform and then securely share their data with business and logistics partners along the entire transportation process: from freight procurement, freight ordering, transportation planning and dispatching, to actual delivery.

Loady is a single source of truth for logistics requirements to shippers, carriers and customers.

What’s in for industrial companies?

Loady offers companies a unique platform to enter and maintain company’s logistics requirements and to build end-to-end transport lanes connecting their products to the loading points at theirs sites with the unloading points at the customers’ sites.

Then they can assign their logistic service providers to the respective data sets of a lane.

Feature overview:

• Standardized data model with modular approach fitting needs of small companies, large industrial and even complex chemical sites and parcs
• Intuitive user interface to enter more than 100 requirements in a clear structure: from site restrictions, parking instructions and opening hours to safety instructions, logistics equipment and processes to follow.
• As a special Goodie for bulk transportation Loady contains a central data base for managing preloading restrictions and cleaning requirements.
• Predefined value selection, reducing any kind of free texts to an absolute minimum
• Multilingual data base: German, English and Polish are already available. Spanish follows in December, others to come in 2023
• Possibility to manage customer’s requirements while they are not managed by the customers themselves
• Create order-related access to driver view “Loady2Go”
• Communicate changes to business and logistics partners
• Integration with ERP / TMS / Yard Management via API

What’s in for logistics service providers

With Loady, for the first time in logistics, carriers will be able to get precise information on logistics requirements directly from their customers.

• Access requirements of authorized transport lanes
• Create order-related access to driver view “Loady2Go”
• Integration with ERP / TMS via API

Use cases supported by Loady:

• Logistics tender management and service offering
• End2end understanding of requirements for easier dispatching
• More flexibility to deploy drivers, independent from their language skills & knowhow
• More reliable service execution at higher quality

Clear rules for data ownership and governance

Loady is a neutral and secure partner platform where companies can manage and exchange logistics requirements. In Loady, data is owned and governed by the companies themselves. Data protection applies the rules of GDPR, data security follows the standard of ISO 27001.

Achievements of our pilot phase

Starting the Loady pilot phase in June 2022, the first industrial customers like BASF and Evonik entered by now more than 20 European sites, 30 loading and unloading points and 25 products.

Now they are building their first transport lanes and assigning them to their logistics service providers to test Loady2Go.

The first API integrations with their Transport Management Systems and Yard Management Systems are planned to take place in Q1 2023.

Future roadmap

The Loady roadmap is being defined very closely together with an expert user community assigned by our industrial and logistics customers. Beside the constant evaluation and improvement of Loady, further features that are designed to make the basic processes even easier to use.

Coming soon:

• Automated notifications in case of changes
• Change history
• Preproduct data base advanced
• Chemical Park tenant
• Loady plugin
• Carrier feedback

Want to see how Loady works?

View the recording Loady V1 (link to youtube) of our CPO and Co-Founder, Elzbieta Wiankowska.

About Loady

Loady is a standardized platform for reliable loading and unloading requirements. By enabling the effective communication of logistics specifications along the supply chain network, Loady optimizes the entire B2B transportation process: from freight procurement, freight ordering, transportation planning and dispatching, to actual delivery.

The idea of Loady is simple: companies maintain their site-specific and product-related logistics requirements in Loady and then securely share them with their business and logistics partners for their respective operations. Of course, industrial companies and logistics service providers can also access Loady via API. This allows them to integrate reliable logistics requirements from Loady directly into their operational systems and processes.

Of special interest for liquid bulk logistics is the long due solution of a general, centralized pre-product database where cleaning instructions and pre-loading restrictions can be managed and shared.

Loady fundamentally improves supply chain collaboration. Loady helps minimize truck rejections and increases planning reliability and sustainability in transportation. But above all, by providing a single source of truth for requirements, Loady will, finally, end the current practice of back-and-forth phone calls, data double checks and continuous troubleshooting that all parties involved are suffering from.

Our platform closes a fundamental gap in communication, making it a key success factor for further digitization and automation in logistics.

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