Case Study: More Quotes, Same Team: How A2S Logistics Keeps Up With Growth

A2S Logistics was growing and expanding into new markets. Its quoting team couldn't keep up, and hiring more people was difficult and expensive.

Every week, 15 to 20 new carrier rate sheets arrived, each with its own surcharges, validity periods and free time. Every single quote meant digging through those rates, comparing them and building the quote by hand.

"Our quotation process involved a lot of manual work," says Shivali, Commercial Manager at A2S Logistics. "This was extremely time consuming, especially when we were handling so many inquiries at the same time."

Slow quotes meant lost business, and the manual work swallowed up the team's time.

Rate Sheets in Minutes, Quotes in One

With Starboard, every carrier rate sheet and surcharge now lives in one place, and Starboard's AI loads new sheets in minutes, not in days like traditional rate management systems can take.

With every rate ready to go, Starboard users report building a quote in about a minute instead of 30.

Starboard's rate management and quote generation features "have helped us streamline our daily workflow," Shivali says.

In the last 28 days alone, A2S ran more than 9,500 rate searches and sent 2,840 quotes through Starboard, without digging through carrier emails and spreadsheets to build them.

And the time saved goes where it matters most.

"This feature of Starboard allows us to spend more time on customer inquiries, negotiating with the carriers and developing new business," Shivali says.

"My advice to other freight forwarders would be giving Starboard a try, particularly if your team handles a high volume of quotations," she adds.

Ready to quote faster without adding headcount? See what Starboard can do for your team and book a demo here.