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Markus J Doetsch, Co-Founder & CTO, Maximilian Schaefer, Co-Founder & Managing Director and Philipp Ortwein, Co-Founder & Managing DirectorBorn out of a desire to thrive in a complex logistics ecosystem and create world-class technology solutions that provide quick and profound results in an agile environment, InstaFreight started its digital freight forwarding service offer in 2016. With this service, customers receive immediate quotations for spot transports and attractive offers on tenders. The pricing algorithm considers parameters such as distance, weight, seasonality, sink and source balances etc and continuously learns from data points. Once the transport is placed, InstaFreight’s carrier matching tool finds the right carrier, while InstaFreight remains the contractual party for both sides. “By digitalizing business processes and automating manual workf lows, we improve information efficiency and build the basis for increased transparency along the supply chain,” adds Markus J. Doetsch, Co-Founder and CTO at InstaFreight.
That said, InstaFreight also provides unparalleled insight into logistics operations with a track-and-trace solution, allowing shippers to locate their freight in real-time and with ETA calculations as it moves to its destination.
The Berlin-based company has built a transportation control tower accessible by shippers who move high freight volumes. The company’s solution helps shippers coordinate several of their transports on an allin- one interface, eliminating the need for them to call up individual dispatchers to know their freight whereabouts. Shippers can not only use this and other functions via the web-based interface but also via an API. Consequently, the company’s clients can immediately receive answers to their queries and get their loads booked faster.
We are a leading LogTech company in Europe, striving to make the fragmented carrier base accessible and manageable for large shippers
This end-2-end digital solution for overland transports is not only available in the freight forwarding business but also part of InstaFreight’s recently launched neutral service. In the so-called “Transport Management” a highly competent team of experts manages and optimizes the customers’ overland transports via the InstaFreight Transport Management Platform. Over the past year, InstaFreight piloted and developed this service offering with several large-scale enterprises, including a shipper from the DAX30. What steers InstaFreight ahead of the competition curve is not only the service’s high level of scalability and modular plug and play features but also the pace with which transparency and significant savings is achieved. Customers can avail of this service with already existing transport partners, for which InstaFreight takes care of the onboarding or access the InstaFreight carrier network which counts capacities of more than 25,000 vetted partners. Either way, the service is open book with InstaFreight being a neutral party.
All in all, InstaFreight Transport Management enables shippers to save direct and indirect costs and gain visibility on operational, financial, and sustainability-related performance. “With this service, we are promising complete transparency—end-to-end. And next to direct cost savings, we create higher productivity with digitalization and automation of processes” adds Philipp Ortwein, Co- Founder & Managing Director at InstaFreight.
With millions of freight dollars already running through their system, InstaFreight aims to change the logistics industry for good. Today, the company has over two thousand active customers on its platform, citing access to new capacity, end-to-end transparency, and hassle-free transport handling to be the primary reasons for using InstaFreight.
Striding ahead in full steam, InstaFreight aims to keep an unwavering focus on revamping and further developing the transportation network in Europe. Simultaneously, the company is committed to continuing support and cultivating technological innovation as well. “We look forward to delivering new and uniquely designed solutions to logistics customersfor many years to come,” concludes Ortwein.
Company
InstaFreight
Management
Markus J Doetsch, Co-Founder & CTO, Maximilian Schaefer, Co-Founder & Managing Director and Philipp Ortwein, Co-Founder & Managing Director
Description
InstaFreight is a leading LogTech company that revolutionizes how overland transports are done today. Born out of a desire to thrive in a complex logistics ecosystem and create world-class technology solutions that provide quick and profound results in an agile environment, InstaFreight’s two core services include Freight Forwarding and Transport Management. Moreover, InstaFreight’s self-developed platform enables shippers to save direct and indirect costs and gain visibility on operational, financial, and sustainability-related performance. Likewise, for carriers, the company offers suitable long-term business and spot loads to optimize fleet utilization while paying fast and reliably at attractive freight rates.
InstaFreight's platform consolidates available freight space from a network of over 25,000 qualified carriers. In this partnership, InstaFreight operates as a cost-neutral Fourth Party Logistics Provider (4PL) for DPD. The company provides DPD with its platform and operational expertise for the procurement and management of additional transport within the full load network. In a year-long pilot project in northern Germany, DPD significantly expanded its carrier base with the assistance of InstaFreight, thereby enhancing the reliability and flexibility of the DPD network. The platform now selects the best offer for the desired route during the search for freight space and transfers the transport order directly to the respective carrier. In the pilot phase alone, several thousand full load transports were awarded using this method. Currently, all of DPD's national and Europe-wide additional transports are coordinated through this platform.
InstaFreight is a leading digital logistics company for land transportation in Europe, operating on a unified platform as both a Third-Party Logistics Provider (3PL) and as a cost-neutral 4PL operator through its Transport Management service. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, the company manages a significant volume of Full Truckload (FTL), Less Than Truckload (LTL), and Less Than Container Load (LCL) shipments on a weekly basis. InstaFreight's business model provides shippers access to freight capacity that would otherwise be challenging to secure at such scale. The technology employed by InstaFreight digitizes and automates various stages of the transportation process, resulting in efficiency gains and improved transparency throughout the transportation journey.
In addition to cost savings, InstaFreight and DPD have jointly digitalized partner management processes. The digital coordination of haulage companies simplifies daily operations and promotes resource-efficient road freight transport by minimizing empty runs.
"After the successful pilot phase and the Germany-wide rollout we are looking forward to the long-term cooperation with InstaFreight. This will enable us to handle our purchasing and the provision of additional capacity even faster, more transparently and more efficiently in these difficult global economic times," explains Simon Nissen, Director Network Planning & Optimisation at DPD Germany.
"Being able to offer an experienced organization like DPD a variety of benefits in the purchasing and management of transport capacities fills us with pride. DPD Germany is an important anchor customer for us, with whom we have jointly developed and piloted our solution for spot FTL shipments. This freight cost-neutral 4PL solution will also be available to other shippers in the future," says Maximilian Schaefer, Managing Director and Co-Founder of InstaFreight.