Tribble fills in every lane of the tender, and leaves the rates to pricing.

Bid season · every open tender at once

Tribble carries one approved change into every open tender.

Shippers bid their freight in the same few months, so your team works a dozen tenders at once, each in the shipper’s own template. When operations approves this year’s peak season plan, Tribble updates every open tender that used last year’s, and leaves the ones already submitted as they went.

• Every open tender on one calendar, with its due date and what’s answered
• One approval updates each open tender that used the old answer
• Each updated answer shows its new source, its owner and the approval date

Cross-border and customs · CTPAT and OEA

Tribble answers the border questions and leaves classification to your licensed brokers.

Cross-border lanes bring their own questionnaire: CTPAT and OEA status, FAST drivers, the crossings you use and how you screen restricted parties. Tribble answers each from your trade compliance records. A question no approved answer covers, like a request to classify the shipper’s goods in the bid, goes to your licensed customs broker in Teams.

• CTPAT, OEA, FAST and border crossing answers from your trade compliance records
• A request to classify the shipper’s goods goes to your licensed customs broker, in Teams
• Every answer names the record it came from and who approved it

Lane reviews · Tribble Engage

Tribble briefs your account director before every lane review.

Every quarter your account director walks each shipper through its lanes, and last quarter’s asks come back. Thirty minutes before the call, Tribble posts a brief in Teams: what moved, what the shipper asked last time, and the approved answer for each, with its source. On the recorded call, live suggestions stay on those answers, and the follow-up goes to Outlook drafts.

• A brief before each lane review: what moved, what’s still open, and the approved answer for each
• Live suggestions on recorded calls, with consent
• Follow-ups drafted to Outlook, so you send and archive as you do today

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Emissions · SmartWay, GLEC Framework and ISO 14083

Tribble remembers which emissions method each shipper was given.

Shippers count your emissions in their own Scope 3 reporting, so they ask how you calculate them: SmartWay data, the GLEC Framework or ISO 14083, measured fuel or default factors. Tribble answers from the methodology statement your sustainability director approved, and keeps each version, who approved it and every questionnaire it went into. When the method changes, you can see which shippers have last year’s.

• Methodology, SmartWay, fleet and fuel answers from your approved sustainability documents
• Each version, its approver and every survey and tender it went into
• Every version keeps the name of the person who approved it, and the date

Clarification rounds · liability and claims

Tribble answers round two the way your submission answered round one.

After the first round, the shipper’s sourcing team comes back with questions about what you submitted, most of them on liability, claims, insurance and subcontracting. Tribble answers each from the answer that went into your submission and the position your risk and claims director approved, so round two says what round one said.