How we Facilitate and Optimise Trade

We are the marine trade experts, offering the leading trading platform for the blue economy

Identify partners
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.

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%.

For example:

"Saves a significant amount in terms of time" - Walter Woodage, Norbulk

"We save 30% of our time" - Panikos Parmenides - MSC

"Substantial reduction in time spent" - Stelios Dimon - Gaslog

“ShipServ has greatly reduced our purchasing administration workload, freeing up at least 30% of our time." - Nick Christian-Edwards, John Samonas

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.

"I eliminated re-typing" - Roar Misje - Grieg Star

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.

“Vroon first integrated our procurement system with ShipServ many years ago.

It now forms a vital part of our purchasing process enabling transaction efficiency and the centralising and coordinating of crucial information exchange with our suppliers.”

Lynnda Pekel, Head of Procurement, VROON B.V.

Direct to/from your system
Connect to all your suppliers
Process efficiency
30% time saving
HOW IT WORKS

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 - see here for more information)

  • 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

Trade and grow sustainably
Brings efficiency to your processes and insights and tools to your decision making.
Trade simply
We make it simple to connect and use our solutions, and speak to us when you need to.
Trade securely
We use the latest and most reliable IT infrastructure and processes
About ShipServ
How we continuously adapt to customer requirements

300+

ship owners and ship managers on the platform, operating >10,000 vessels

$6 billion +

annual value of trade on the platform

52,000+

suppliers connected to the network

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