Our platform facilitates and optimises your trade, driving efficiency

Join the most extensive and widely used integrated online platform in marine. Over 260 ship operators with 10,000 vessels are connected to 43,000 suppliers. Use the platform to identify partners, exchange information, and increase your trading efficiency, typically by 30%.

• Identify partners
• **Exchange and execute: **Exchange information with the supplier and then execute trade digitally and directly
• **Insights: **We provide tools to enable you to analyse, benchmark and optimise your trade
• **Secure trade operations: **Be confident that security and reliability are being prioritised

Facilitate. Enhance. Optimise.

• Identify Partners - our brand new search engine, ShipServ Search, enables you to find new suppliers, and see their capabilities and products in the new look supplier profiles
• Use our geo search capability to find local suppliers where you need them. See the authorised suppliers to ensure you get the right products.
• Exchange and Execute trade. Direct and digitally. We can digitally enable all suppliers, even if they are not already enabled. See below for more information.
• Optimised information flows.
• Insights. ShipServ provides a number of tools to provide actionable insights and benchmarks.

Execute your trade. Digitally. Direct.

Our platform allows you to digitally execute your trade with all your suppliers direct from your own procurement system. Significantly increased efficiency gives improved operations.

The key benefits of ShipServ's trading platform

Many procurement departments are working sub-optimally because transactions are sent and received manually and in different formats (fax, phone, email, excel, PDF). ShipServ solves this problem.

• Simplifies your procurement process: Simplifies and streamlines your procurement processes because all your transactions go from your own system and go back into your procurement/ERP system. This means significantly better efficiency and data quality.
• Procurement time savings of 30%: Typically our customers report time savings of between 15% and 30%.
• Eliminates re-typing: If you fully or partially re-type when quotes come back from suppliers (in various different formats) then this can be eliminated with ShipServ. All quotes come back straight into your procurement system.
• Improves order accuracy, fewer errors: As all transactions are sent/received directly and digitally, there is much less manual intervention and re-typing. As a result, data quality is improved.
• Increases purchaser productivity and value-add: With the 30% of time liberated as a result of moving to ShipServ, the procurement team can spend more time on more strategic procurement matters. And less time on tedious, repetitive tasks.
• Use only ONE platform for ALL your suppliers: Why move to a procurement platform only to find some of your suppliers won't use it (because that platform charges some suppliers to do so)? Uniquely with ShipServ, all suppliers can trade for free. So there is no reason all your suppliers should not quote back via the ShipServ system. What this means for procurement teams is that only one connection is needed to ShipServ to manage all of your suppliers and their trading transactions. Which maximises your efficiency gains.

How we facilitate trade

• Find suppliers, contact them and assess their capabilities using ShipServ Search and our supplier profiles
• When you integrate to ShipServ, you don't change your existing procurement system
• Connect your system to ShipServ (in many cases using an already built connector)
• Workflow is set up to respect existing trade set up (e.g. notifications)
• Add industry best practices where required (e.g. units of measure and location handling)
• Now RFQs are sent direct from your system - then via ShipServ - to your suppliers. No more emails/attachments
• Quotes also go straight back into your system - no re-typing
• We have existing electronic, direct connections to 43,000 suppliers, who can all quote back/trade for free
• It's simple to add any of your suppliers who are not already part of our network
• So you only need use one platform - ShipServ - for connecting, and trading with, all your suppliers