The
MLS Bid Optimization Service can electronically
distribute bid information to your transportation
providers, baseline costs, qualify carriers, receive
and process bids, optimize results, measure savings,
award the contract and create routing guides.
Our procurement process has been proven effective
in numerous implementations at leading companies
from a variety of industries. With Bid Optimization
you can leverage our extensive experience to maximize
the effectiveness of your bid and minimize the
administrative burden of strategic procurement.
By
utilizing Metropolitan's Bid Optimization Services,
you will:
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Lower
transportation costs by enabling transportation
providers to offer more competitive bids,
using online, information-sharing capabilities |
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Improve
service reliability by allowing transportation
providers to respond with detailed information
that goes beyond pricing to ensure more reliable
capacity, better compliance and a subsequent
drop in carrier refusal rates |
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Automatically
generate an electronic request for proposal
and organize bid data, significantly reducing
the amount of time spent processing bids by
eliminating the need to merge and sort information
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Improve
decision-making through scenario management
and optimization of the financial impact of
proposed changes to an existing transportation
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Bid
Management Services enable shippers to realize
leveraged savings in a shorter amount of time.
When used in conjunction with the LCC, our comprehensive
transportation management solution, shippers are
provided with an optimal transportation strategy
and unparalleled control of shipment execution
to ensure routing compliance and deliver the savings
on each and every shipment.
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