_b first bets on the Maritime Tariff Quote CargoFive

Integrated maritime rate quotes, key to competitiveness

Maritime transport is the undisputed means of transport in international trade. Today, this mode moves more than 90% of freight traffic globally. It is well known to freight forwarders that quoting maritime transport services can be a laborious task if the right tools are not available. The digitization of the logistics sector has led to digital tools that allow freight forwarders to better manage the pricing of ocean rates. However, the key to competitiveness lies in their full integration into management systems.

ERP for logistics and transport _b firstintegrates with CargoFive to increase your customers' connectivity

Connectivity with the rest of the logistics ecosystem is key to bytemaster in its digital transformation offering. With it, we allow our customers to integrate information from the rest of the logistics chain to generate value within the organization. For this reason, we constantly monitor the market to provide the best integrations with third parties. In this line, bytemaster has reached an agreement with the maritime rate quoted CargoFive. This integration will allow a rapid management of shipping offers.

Bytemaster will have available the new connector that will integrate both platforms. Thus, the logistics ERP _b first will have a powerful shipping e-pricing tool within _b first automatically. This will increase the agility in the automatic calculation of costs and sales of maritime and multimodal operations developed by _b first.

CargoFive, the e-pricing solution for the maritime industry

CargoFive is an excellent e-pricing solution for freight forwarders because of its agility and ease of use. The tool allows the automation of the rates of the main shipping companies, unifying them in a standard format. In this way, it is possible to compare all rates from different providers and provide quotes to end customers quickly and easily based on a powerful web-based quote engine.

Sebastian Cazajus, CEO of CargoFive, comments that the integration with _b first is "a big step towards offering freight forwarders a more complete solution that will allow them to digitize their operations in the simplest way possible. Now you can not only find the rates of different standardized shipping companies in one place easily. They will also be able to take the information of the quotes generated to their _b firstThis will give them greater visibility and better management of their operations.

In short, CargoFive enables your customers:

• Simplify the data of ports, shipping companies, customs, etc.
• Standardize the terms that are used in the search and quote.
• Manage rates and contracts with multiple service providers.
• Generate quotes automatically.

Towards the efficient generation of multimodal offers in ERP _b firstsoftware for the logistics sector

Bytemaster's agreement for integration with the maritime rate quoted company CargoFive is part of a series of actions to optimize commercial management through the ERP for logistics operators _b first. Javier Álvarez, sales manager for _b first comments on integration. "The integration of maritime tariffs through CargoFive complements _b first the existing one on land and in the air. In this way, we are working to offer in our new web CRM a quotation tool that contemplates all the transport options in a multimodal format".

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Andreu Camps

Consultant in Logistics and Supply Chain Technologies