Improve efficiency by integrating container shipping processes

By streamlining and integrating container shipping processes with ocean freight software from SAP, you can provide consistent customer quotations, documentation, settlement, and execution information while focusing on exceptions to reduce workload and support segregation of duties.

• Industry-specific pricing process
• Booking-related export and import documentation
• Operational bunker management
• Cargo flow, vessel, and port operations processes

Key benefits

Increase your revenue

Manage products for ocean and value-added services consistently from both commercial and operational angles and allocate the most-profitable cargo to your voyages.

Enable flexibility and innovation

Configure software easily with minimal disruption to the business, so you can respond quickly to accommodate changing requirements and new ways of working.

Run your operations more cost-effectively

Save money by running a single platform for ocean freight management that simplifies and automates processes across your container shipping operations.

Key features

Support for lead-to-agreement activities

• Respond to customer inquiries efficiently by automatically formatting quotations, and provide informed responses based on tariffs and existing agreements
• Calculate surcharges and duration-based charges, such as detention, demurrage, storage, or container monitoring
• Track customer agreements with comprehensive management features

Advanced order-to-cash features

• Coordinate bookings, including ocean and surface transports
• Conduct prohibition and restriction checks with automatic approval requests integrated into workflows
• Manage payments and handle export and import documentation requirements

Network and operations management

• Manage customer and spot allocation, including forecast information
• Control operational bunker demand and supply for voyages in execution
• Oversee port call cargo operations and enable integrated cargo re-planning