Drewry, a leading independent research and consulting firm to the shipping sector, today announced the launch of a powerful new e-Sourcing solution for global ocean transport exporters and importers. The new e-Sourcing Ocean Freight Solution (eSOFS™) combines Drewry’s robust freight rate benchmarking intelligence, seasoned industry expertise with leading-edge technology to bring speed and efficiency to ocean freight sourcing events.
Drewry’s eSOFS™ solution provides the flexibility and analytical capabilities to ensure well informed procurement decisions. It optimizes processes and utilizes best practices to ensure optimal carrier and route selection decisions that meet a company’s cost and strategic goals.
Through the power of this total solution, logistics executives tasked with designing and managing complex, maritime-intensive transport networks can achieve cost savings as well as performance and productivity improvement.
Chas Deller, a Drewry consultant with extensive experience of managing ocean freight procurement events, added: “Unlike the often cumbersome and sometimes inflexible optimization technology previously used in ocean freight tenders, the new technology utilized by eSOFS provides much improved flexibility and usability to ensure that immediate improvements in efficiency and analysis can be realised.”
In January 2016, Drewry’s Supply Chain Advisors began work on the first eSOFS™ implementation at a US multinational, advising and managing their 2016 ocean freight tender.
Drewry has a track record of innovations in ocean transport consultancy and market intelligence, with an industry-first carrier schedule reliability online reporting tool, global spot freight rate benchmarking and global BCO contract rate benchmarking, together with unique slot cost and bunker costs calculation tools.