Shippers across the world today face challenges like the truck driver shortage, rising freight costs, capacity crunches, and more. Digital freight matching helps to bridge this gap between the nation’s independent carriers and the companies that rely on them. In the past few years, digital freight matching platforms have emerged that have helped companies to take their goods from destination A to B efficiently.
Post.Bid.Ship is a neutral digital freight platform that replaces outdated workflows with the quick, cost-effective, and efficient matching of loads to transportation capacity in real-time, using near-time data analytics, market indices modeling and real-time digital collaboration, benefiting both parties through an optimal mix of cost, performance, convenience and asset utilization.
Sam Levin, the CEO of Post.Bid.Ship tells us more about the company in this interview.
Tell us about the company.
Post.Bid.Ship is a rapidly growing technology company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. From our roots as a business school project, Post.Bid.Ship grew to become a venture-backed company serving the enterprise freight transportation market. A team of entrepreneurs and technologists passionate about serving the freight industry collaborated to develop Post.Bid.Ship’s online freight marketplace eventually served over 11,000 users. The company evolved into a technology provider to Fortune 1000 companies and recently earned two awards CIOReview’s designation as a “20 Most Promising Oracle Solution Providers 2019” and Freight Waves FreightTech Top 100 Innovators.
What were the initial challenges you faced?
As an emerging tech company finding the right balance between innovation and growth is an obstacle we constantly face. Where to spend our money and efforts to achieve an optimum result.
Which was that point that triggered the growth of the company?
With any SaaS-based platform, it’s all about customer acquisition. As customers join the platform you gain references and a story to tell.
What is the reason behind your company’s long-standing success?
The company has never been satisfied with the status quo. Over the years the company and the platform have gone through dramatic changes to reinvent themselves. We must understand our industry and evolve to support the current challenges being faced in transportation and logistics.
What are the products/services the company focuses on? How are your services different from those in the market?
Post.Bid.Ship is a neutral digital freight platform that replaces outdated workflows with the quick, cost-effective, and efficient matching of loads to transportation capacity in real-time, using near-time data analytics, market indices modeling and real-time digital collaboration, benefiting both parties through an optimal mix of cost, performance, convenience and asset utilization.
What is Post.Bid.Ship?
For Shippers
- Quickly post your shipments to a private network of trusted carriers. A transparent bidding process and real time market intelligence ensure you get the market rate every time.
- Automatically award the load or manually review to pick your perfect carrier.
- No phone calls, no emails. Your load contracted in minutes with zero added brokerage fees. Save time and money.
For Carriers
- Collaborate with your Customers more efficiently eliminating phone calls and emails. Reduce empty miles and unused capacity.
- Set your location, trailer and mode preferences and matching loads get pushed right to your inbox as often as you like.
- Bid on matching shipments and enjoy automatic awards when you meet the shippers pre-approved rate.
- All at no cost to you.
For TMS Software Providers
- Post.Bid.Ship can easily be integrated with your platform to offer a spot freight tender solution for your existing customers.
- Our pre-built RestfulAPI allows us to connect and integrate quickly. Whether you are logistics software that wants to offer spot freight matching functionality or a trading platform that needs to move orders from seller to buyer we can help.
How do you decide to take the company a step further in terms of your products/services?
Our vision is driven by market research and customer demand. As the transportation market is constantly changing it is important that we evaluate and understand not just where it is but also where it is going. We can then innovate to support change as well as understand the needs of our customers.
What do you think are the responsibilities of an entrepreneur?
In all reality, you need to be prepared to wear many hats. It’s our role to make sure the engine keeps running by one or all these things: Leader, Visionary, Marketer, Decision Maker, Customer Service Rep, HR, Grunt.
Can you please brief us about your professional experience?
Sam joined Post.Bid.Ship in April 2019, brings over 20 years of transportation technology industry leadership, supply chain expertise, and executive management experience to his role with the company. Before Post.Bid.Ship Sam founded MavenWire a global leading provider of Transportation Management Services and Solutions. With experience with logistics across virtually all transportation and business verticals, Sam’s exposure allows him to help companies realize ROI through transportation solutions and human capital improvements.
- Lead acquisitions of logistics consultancies in Singapore and Australia to drive global expansion as well as had a successful exit of MavenWire
- Early employee of G-Log (sold to Oracle in 2005, now Oracle Transportation Management OTM)
- Serving 3rd Term, Board of Directors, Oracle Transportation Special Interest Group, OAUG
How do you look after your employees? What makes your team unique?
I believe there is no I in Team. I am only successful because of the talent and individuals I surround myself with. My executive Team of Michal Murphy and Jarret Hamstreet are constantly discussing both ideas as well as industry events to understand how we continue to fit into the big picture. We have some of the brightest developers in the industry and a sales team that understand customer needs. I believe that every single person brings something to the table that makes Post.Bid.Ship the success that it is today. I embrace them and encourage thought leadership.
Is there any special experience with your clients you would like to highlight?
Now more than ever it is exciting to see how our platform is helping individuals be more productive in the roles while working from home. I enjoy hearing how our platform saves their company money and makes their job easier.
