Case Study: Ocean Freight achieves 23% cost savings with Keelvar

Ocean Freight - Customer Case Study

Ocean Freight, a DAX 20 consortium of large BCOs and a German multinational industrial conglomerate, needed a faster way to manage ocean freight sourcing across many business units with different shipping processes, policies, constraints, and suppliers. With a small team and limited time, it turned to Keelvar’s intelligent sourcing optimization platform to help collect and analyze carrier proposals alongside stakeholder requirements.

Keelvar implemented Expressive Bidding, Optimized Scenario Analysis, and user-friendly Event Management to support the ocean transportation tender. The customer achieved 23% savings versus prior bid rounds, reduced tender management time by 40% (3.5 months vs. 6 months), and reached top 5% cost performance, while also gaining better visibility into tradeoffs around carrier count, alliances, transit times, and ports of origin.

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