Road-freight rates negotiated verbally, lane by lane, carry a hidden cost variance that never appears in your MIS — the gap between what a lane costs and what it should. EaseTransportNow replaces the phone call with live reverse bidding, among your existing, empanelled transporters only.
The cost of a lane isn't set by the market — it's set by whoever negotiates it, however they negotiate it. That structural gap is invisible to finance until someone benchmarks it.
Rates discovered one-to-one over the phone mean a single vendor sets the number. The lanes with the least competition carry the most variance.
Verbal negotiation leaves no record of who quoted what, when, or why a lane was awarded. Management has no line of sight into its own freight desk.
Without a comparison against live market rates, "we get good rates" is a belief, not a measured fact — and the gap is usually larger than expected.
Reverse bidding replaces the phone call with a transparent, recorded, competitive process. Nothing about your vendor relationships changes — only how the price is discovered.
Your dispatch team posts a load requirement to the platform in seconds.
All approved transporters for that lane receive it simultaneously and submit bids within a defined window.
The system captures each quote with a timestamp — a complete, auditable trail of the price discovery.
You award on rate, placement reliability, or both. Management sees every lane, every bid, every award on a live dashboard.
In deployments so far, lane rates settle 5–8% lower within the first month — purely from competitive price discovery, with the same empanelled vendor base.
The opposite. This is not a marketplace, and it is not a switch to unknown carriers. Only your empanelled, trusted vendors participate — the relationships stay exactly as they are.
Before any discussion of software, we quantify the opportunity. You share last quarter's freight data; we return an independent, lane-wise variance report.
Transporter invoices, a dispatch register, or an ERP export. An NDA can be executed first if preferred.
Each of your lanes is mapped and compared against prevailing market rates.
A lane-wise variance analysis with an annualised figure — in 5–7 working days.
Tap a lane to see the finding
Finding. Highest-variance lane and the largest single leak. Only two of four empanelled carriers quote it regularly; opening every load to the full panel should recover most of the gap. Priority 1.
Finding. Short-haul, high-frequency lane. A modest 9% per-trip gap compounds across ~96 loads a month. Widen bidding beyond the two habitual carriers.
Finding. Two carriers hold roughly 80% of loads. A structured, panel-wide bid closes most of the 6% gap.
Finding. Already within 1% of market — competitively priced today. No action needed; monitor quarterly.
If your freight desk runs on relationships and phone calls, the variance is almost certainly there.
Not to begin. The benchmarking review needs no deployment — only your last quarter's freight data. The platform comes later, only if you choose it.
No. Only your existing, empanelled vendors participate. The review and platform work entirely within your current vendor base.
Very likely true — and the review would confirm it independently, a useful data point for audit and board review.
Lanes typically settle 5–8% lower within the first month of live bidding, with no change to your vendor base.
Share a few details and we'll begin your complimentary, lane-wise Freight Benchmarking Review. No software, no commitment — a quantified variance report within a week.
Prefer to speak first? Call +91 70813 27348 or +91 90493 27348 (dials EASE‑IT), or email sales@easeitnow.com.
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