Phantom surcharges. Dirty data. Weeks of cleanup.
Tenderlane structures your freight tender so you get clean, comparable quotes from day one.
A French importer hard-coded Le Havre for cargo going to Strasbourg. Routing via Antwerp + rail: $275 saved per container across 200 containers.
$0
lost to one routing assumption
“Total Origin Charges” bundled three cost types into one column. The unit was never defined.
$0 → $0
quoted vs. invoiced per shipment
Fixed annual BAF rate locked in winter. Fuel dropped 40% by summer. They kept paying the winter price.
€0
from a single line item
Each solution maps directly to one of the problems above.
Pricing grids based on actual trade lane, transport mode & incoterm. Irrelevant surcharges excluded. Forwarders propose optimal routing — you define the destination, not the port.
Every field enforces a specific data type — currency, integer, per-container, per-shipment. No free text where a number should be. Quotes are comparable the moment they arrive.
Base rates lock in for stability. Volatile costs (BAF, PSS, peak season) adjust with the market — no worst-case premium locked in for 12 months.
You run freight tenders in Excel and copy last year’s template to get started
You manage multiple forwarders and spend days normalizing their responses
You’ve been burned by invoices that don’t match what was quoted
You don’t have a dedicated procurement team — it’s one of fifty things on your plate
Clément spent years managing freight tenders and watching shippers lose money on broken spreadsheets. Ryan builds the software to fix it. Every feature comes from real tender experience — not guesswork.
We’ll look at how you run tenders today and show you where the gaps are — no pitch deck, no pressure.
hello@tenderlane.com