Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has entered a strategic technology partnership with cargo.one to enhance its airfreight procurement and sales processes. The collaboration will see Hellmann integrate several cargo.one tools—including Advanced Rate Management, Quotes API, Live Estimates data, and cargo.one pro—into its operations.
The collaboration supports Hellmann to drive efficiency and automation, raise team productivity and win rates, and enhance customer experiences.
The quoting landscape for air freight has increased in complexity in recent years – driven by volatile market conditions, capacity constraints, and rising customer expectations for speed.
By adopting a quoting and rate management set-up powered by cargo.one, Hellmann can rely upon boosted productivity, market agility and profitability.
Hellmann's upgraded infrastructure includes complete rate and charge management for its buy and sell rates, local charges and trucking costs, using cargo.one's Advanced Rate Management, customized to its exact needs.
Hellmann has integrated cargo.one's Quotes API into its proprietary 'HITS' quotation system, which is fully connected to its CargoWise One TMS. The move consolidates several legacy tools into a single platform, giving teams access to centralized rate and cost data. According to the company, the system enables faster quoting, improves handling of pricing and routing complexity, and supports more consistent procurement analysis through structured data.
"Our co-built solution with cargo.one is a further step in advancing our air freight digitalization. The new technology significantly enhances the digital customer experience and marks a key milestone in realizing our strategic ambition, which places customer experience at the core of everything we do," said Martin Habisreitinger, COO Airfreight at Hellmann Worldwide Logistics.
"cargo.one's technology equips Hellmann to gain full oversight over and competitive advantage from our air procurement function – allowing us to maximize upon our strong carrier relationships, optimize our rate setting, and drive competitive advantage."
Moritz Claussen, founder & co-CEO of cargo.one, also welcomed the partnership saying Hellmann will drive a full spectrum of gains from digital air freight procurement and sales. "The latest infrastructure and tooling from cargo.one now elevates Hellmann’s teams with the optimal rate transparency, consistency and management they require to craft winning, value-added solutions."
Oliver Marschall, vice president Global Airfreight Operations & Procurementat Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, said Hellmann is capitalizing upon a transformative shift in modern logistics technology.
"With our modernized digital set-up, we ensure consistent access to the most accurate and competitive end-to-end pricing, boost our market responsiveness, and apply insights to continually improve our operational performance."
Highly scalable digital infrastructure enables a large scale forwarder to consistently define and optimize its ideal sell rates.
By applying cargo.one to its air cargo pricing and procurement workflows, Hellmann can guarantee the highest industry standards for reliability, data quality and availability, and quoting and booking performance.
