Introducing Uber Freight Exchange,
Our Freight Procurement Platform for shippers
Optimize your freight procurement strategy across contract and spot with comprehensive insights and tools to unlock efficiencies, build stronger relationships and make more informed decisions, all in a single platform.
- Run contract or spot bids of any size, from start to finish
- Save time and money simplifying your bid process by eliminating manual tasks and aggregating data in a single tool
- Get access to curated insights, benchmarking and historical price comparisons for your procurement needs
Start running contract bids today!
Run better contract bids with speed, ease, and insights
Uber Freight Exchange: Contract brings shippers and their carriers the data, insights, and functionality needed to seamlessly secure capacity for their contract freight. Logistics teams can execute RFP events faster than ever by streamlining carrier communications and aggregating data — all in one tool.
Why Uber Freight Exchange: Contract?
Streamline your bid events
Spend less time manually setting up your bids and aggregating data. Create contract bid events in minutes, track live bid progress and carrier engagement, and automatically centralize all your carrier rates in one single platform.
Make better procurement decisions
Capture real-time market rates and leverage actionable insights from network data and cost projections to optimize procurement decisions. Make award decisions faster than ever and export the results to your TMS.
Expand your carrier network
Ensure that you have your procurement needs covered. Use your preferred carriers or tap into one of the largest and growing networks of carriers with Uber Freight.
Spot procurement, optimized and accelerated
Uber Freight Exchange: Spot streamlines spot procurement with automation, insights, and one of the largest carrier networks.
As the first destination for combined book-it-now load pricing, bidding, and automated tendering—supported by Uber Freight’s proprietary algorithms and scalable workflows—Exchange: Spot helps you save time and money, make more informed decisions, and uplevel your carrier network.
Already an Uber Freight Transportation Management customer? Contact your account manager for early access.
Why Uber Freight Exchange: Spot?
Accelerate procurement decisions
Save time and money by adding book-it-now rates based on AI-powered pricing recommendations or by automating award decisions based on your pricing guardrails. You will always have final say on pricing and awarding.
Award confidently
Be confident in your bid awards. Guide award decisions by accessing external and Uber Freight’s AI-powered benchmarks or even upload your own. Help ensure you made the best cost decisions by surveying all rates across auctions, contract, and API instant quotes.
Expand your network
Invite your preferred carriers to bid or get recommendations for top carriers in the Uber Freight network. Our diverse network of over 121k carriers ensures high levels of performance through carrier scorecards, booking rules, and fraud screenings.
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FAQs
Do I need to be an Uber Freight TMS user in order to use Exchange: Contract?
No. You can use Uber Freight Exchange’s contract procurement capabilities right alongside the TMS of your choice.
How does Uber Freight Exchange integrate with my TMS?
Uber Freight Exchange: Contract is designed to help you with your existing workflows and a TMS integration is not needed to get up and running. Talk to an Uber Freight representative today to discuss integration opportunities to further power your procurement processes.
Please note, Uber Freight Exchange: Contract is pre-integrated with the Uber Freight TMS. That means, if you are an Uber Freight TMS customer, on Day 1 you will be able to:
- Initiate a bid based on TMS data
- Sync RFP results automatically to your routing guide
Although a TMS integration is not needed, some features in Exchange: Contract will only work seamlessly with a TMS integration (e.g. creating bids directly from TMS data). Please contact sales to discuss integrations with your TMS.
How can I sign up for Uber Freight Exchange?
Uber Freight Exchange: Contract is currently available – sign up here.
Uber Freight Exchange: Spot is currently open for Uber Freight Transportation Management customers only. If you are not an Uber Freight customer, join our waitlist and be one of the first to know when it is available.
What does Uber Freight do with my bid data?
We take confidentiality seriously and strive to be responsible stewards of all data provided to Uber Freight. Within Uber Freight, we manage data access permissions through robust systems.
Customers do not have access to raw data from any account other than their own. Any benchmarking is shared on an aggregated and anonymized basis only.
As a shipper, what happens to my carriers when I bring them to Uber Freight Exchange?
If the carrier is already an Uber Freight carrier, they will be able to log into Uber Freight Exchange: Contract using their Uber Freight credentials. Uber Freight may pre-populate certain information in the tool based on the carrier’s existing Uber Freight profile.
If the carrier is not already an Uber Freight carrier, they will be prompted to create a profile. Carriers will not be required to sign up for the brokerage in order to bid.
How much does Uber Freight Exchange cost?
Shippers today can sign up and start running contract bids on Uber Freight Exchange: Contract for free. Add-on capabilities may be available for purchase in the future.
Enhanced features in Uber Freight Exchange: Contract may be available for purchase. In addition, select features may be available as add-ons to Uber Freight TMS and Uber Freight’s brokerage offering.
What modes are supported?
Uber Freight Exchange: Contract supports full truckload (FTL) and intermodal (IMDL) bids. This includes multistop, tanker, hazardous materials, live, drop, and live/drop lanes.
What equipment types are supported?
Uber Freight Exchange: Contract supports Dry Van, Reefer, Flatbed, and Container equipment types.
What geographies are supported?
Uber Freight Exchange: Contract supports all origins and destinations in North America, including cross-border and intra-Canada and intra-Mexico lanes.
Does Uber Freight Exchange: Contract handle load execution?
Nothing changes with load execution when you use Uber Freight Exchange: Contract. You can continue to tender loads to your carriers using the solution(s) you have in place. Uber Freight will provide you with an award export to upload to your routing guide.
Need a load execution solution? Consider Uber Freight TMS.
If I am a 4PL Shipper, who is responsible for running my RFPs and bids in Uber Freight Exchange: Contract?
Nothing changes in terms of procurement ownership when you use Uber Freight Exchange: Contract. If you use an outsourced procurement service provider, you can use the platform’s shared access features to collaborate on contract procurement events and complete bids faster and with less effort.
Need a turnkey solution for your next RFP event? Contact our consulting team.
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Take the first step towards more efficient freight procurement and optimizing your operations, from bid to decision.