A better way to purchase
Driving down costs with new efficiency, visibility and risk management.
The New Strategic Buyer
With increased pressure on you to reduce costs, trying to supply your ships with everything they need – and your management team with the insight they demand – is no longer sustainable using telephone, fax and paper directories.
ShipServ better enables the sourcing and purchasing of operational supplies so you can:
- Find suppliers fast — with Pages, the global supplier directory you can access nearly 30,000 suppliers (and growing). Pick a product, port or brand and Pages will do the rest.
- Save time and money — join ShipServ TradeNet to issue RFQs instantly, manage quotes, orders, logistics, invoices and contracts. Do it all electronically, better maintaining control of spending, reducing costs and doing more with less. Today, nearly 150 shipping companies manage 5,000 ships using TradeNet, the e-commerce platform for shipping supplies.
Speed up communications ship to shore — use Mariner’s Annual, the product reference and ordering guide, to facilitate the communication of product requirements/specifications from the ship’s crew to suppliers on shore.
Got excess inventory to sell?
You can also make money - by selling your excess or after sales inventory on ShipServ Inventory Exchange (SIX). SIX has been set up in direct response to a message we hear time and time again from ship managers - that they have lots of excess inventory sitting around in warehouses that they would love to sell, but have no way to do so. If you’re looking to sell your excess inventory, then SIX is for you.
A better way to supply ships
E-commerce is taking off in the shipping supplies market for very good reasons:
- Faster purchasing processes
…cut order cycle times by 30-50% - More accurate orders
…waste less time unwinding errors - More on-time deliveries
…and more productive ships - Lower risk of off-hire days
…caused by supply issues - New business insight
…to benchmark & improve suppliers, processes and KPI’s - Easier compliance
…with best-practice processes and total transparency
Optimizing any fleet
ShipServ dramatically improves the purchasing performance of even the smallest fleets. But the more ships you manage, the more time and money you’ll save.
That’s why the likes of Grimaldi Compagnia di Navigazione s.p.a., Keppel Shipyard, MSC, NYK, OSG and Anglo Eastern Group rely on ShipServ to transform how they buy.