Tender everything. fast. easy.
Making the best logistics purchasing decisions
The u-tender tender platform allows you to make offers REALLY comparable – without Excel chaos but with crystal-clear results.
- Up to 60 % time saving
- 100% flexible: data structure and rules can be defined yourself
- Tailored to the requirements of your company
- Digitalisation of the entire purchasing process
- Qualified technical support
- Intuitive tool, but mapping of complex requests
- Globally usable
- Audit-proof
Customers from all industries rely on 
- from
small family businesses to international global corporations.
What our customers say
Valentin Pilard
Senior Global Buyer Manager – Transportation & Warehousing
“Steinbeis Papier uses OCCON’s “u-tender” e-sourcing platform to tender our logistics services and other selected commodities.
“u-tender” convinces both us and our suppliers with an extremely high-performance user interface, which is usually understood right away without any explanation or support.
“u-tender” is fast, clearly designed & offers useful functionalities to enable optimal tender results.
We like that after the first bidding phase we have several options to continue the tender. E.g. via auctions or second rounds of tenders. All documents and inquiries from suppliers are stored revision-safe in the relevant tender section at any time, which ensures transparency and a central database.
The convincing user experience on “u-tender” helps us to carry out professional and transparent tenders with our valued business partners and potential new suppliers to ensure fair negotiation results for everyone involved.”
Torben Link
Head of Procurement, Steinbeis Papier GmbH
Jens-Oliver Oster
Head of Supply Chain Executions, EuroChem
“The use of the u-tender e-sourcing platform enables us to handle a wider range of suppliers – and still we need less time than before.”
Riccardo Bianchi
Raw Materials & Supply chain Manager
E-sourcing adapted to your requirements
Rigid systems, overloaded tools and lengthy training is not what moves you and your business forward. Profit through u-tender:
Agile
The web-based tool can be easily integrated into your existing processes and is quickly ready for use thanks to its intuitive operation.
Adjustments during the process are easily possible
Personal 1:1 support means that questions and problems are quickly clarified
Smart
The entire process of data management, purchasing, monitoring and controlling is clearly mapped in a single tool.
u-tender provides you with a detailed picture of the best comparable offers through flexible queries.
Flexible & scalable
The tool is tailored to your individual needs: use & pay only for what you really need
If your requirements change, we adapt the tool to your new situation
More time for strategy & tactics - the tool manages the data
Flexible queries
Automatically request ALL relevant information from your supplier (RFI / RFQ).
Matching comparisons
Get an overview of offers with all important information in just a few seconds
Allocation of authorisations
Decide for yourself who can see what information and who cannot.
Seamless allocation
Decide on your ideal offer and award the contract directly to the supplier.
Automatic verification
The platform automatically checks whether all entries in your columns have the correct values and points out errors to the suppliers before the offers reach you.
Changes possible at any time
If parameters of your previous entries change, you can adjust them in the running system without much effort.
E-sourcing in 5 simple steps
Collect data
- All your departments and business units can access the global database.
- Specific rights for different users ensure a clear working environment
- Validation of data and deposit of rules ensures data quality
Calls for tenders start
- RFQ, RFI and auctions can be configured in a few minutes
- Spot requests can be mapped during the year without configuration effort
Manage tenders
- Document management for buyers and suppliers
- All communication including reminder emails possible directly via u-tender
- Dynamic management of deadlines and supplier access rights
Analyse results
- Dynamic rankings and scenarios with respective savings
- Visualisation of results
- Features for e-negotiation and targets/feedback
Contract management
- Full transparency across all spend categories via dashboard
- Assigned order and service information can be constantly updated
- Documents and side letters can also be managed
These companies already benefit from u-tender
Large
Fertiliser manufacturer
Industry
Agro-Chemie
Turnover: 10 billion USD
Challenge
Complex decision criteria and consideration of capacity constraints at multi-dimensional geographical levels in the global tendering process
Destination
Error prevention and decision-ready analysis preparation in minimal time
Solution
Mapping of complex requirements in the tender, as well as optimisation taking into account capacity restrictions using an algorithm to find the best solution in minutes
Fact
10 years of cooperation with teams in Germany and Russia
Leading
Brewery Group
Industry
FMCG
Turnover: 22 bn EUR
Challenge
Non-transparent, decentralised, regular purchasing of new weekly requirements from 62 business units worldwide on the spot market
Destination
Structured and centrally organised and monitored purchasing process
Solution
Worldwide requirements are implemented centrally and tendered in bundles according to a jointly developed schedule. Regional buyers can check the results, while the awarding is done centrally
Fact
10 years /
62 business units worldwide reduced from chaotic purchasing to weekly mini tenders per mode of transport through centralised purchasing
Stock-listed Pharmaceutical
and laboratory supplier
Industry
Pharma
Turnover: 2.3 bn EUR
Challenge
Complex delivery flows (in/out/3rd party) in different transport modes (sea,air,CEP/parcel) with different service levels
Destination
Mapping the complexity in data mgmt, tender mgmt and contract mgmt
Solution
Implementation of the complex structure, as well as simple presentation of complex analyses for finding the suitable logistical network partners
Fact
7 years of cooperation and tripling of freight volume during this time
You are interested and would like to try u-tender:
Here's how:
DEMO
Get a detailed insight into our tool, what possibilities it offers you and how it works.
Initial interview
We clarify which challenges you face and which functions of our tool are interesting for you.
Individual offer
You will receive an offer that is tailored to your scope of use and the type of further support we will provide.
Configuration
u-tender is tailored precisely to your company and is therefore ready to use.
About OCCON
As one of the most successful boutique logistics and procurement consultancies in Europe. With excellent customer satisfaction rates, over €6 billion spend volume per year and 15 years of e-sourcing experience, we understand the complexity of the entire purchasing process. With u-tender, we make these complex processes simple to make your daily work easier.
In order to be able to support you even better, we offer you additional consulting in the areas of strategy, purchasing and controlling with OCCON.
See for yourself:
FAQ
As a matter of course. Our customers have been using our platform for over a decade in all modes of transport. Including not only the main ones such as land, sea and air transport but also niches such as rail, inland waterway or coaster, etc. Not to forget, of course, CEP services and warehouse tenders.
Our support is located in Germany as well as in Istanbul as a gateway to Asia. The quality of our support is more important to us than the location. Instead of a call centre in Asia, our support is informed about every running tender. Our customers as well as the bidders in Asia and the USA are always highly satisfied with our support.
You will be assigned a key account who will help you with on-boarding and discuss all the details with you. Our team is staffed with qualified buyers and logisticians.
This is not comparable to an SAP introduction. Within a few days and up to a maximum of 2 weeks, everything is discussed, individually configured and usable.
This essentially depends on the scope. In general, we expect about 3 months from data collection to award. In the case of poor data quality and/or missing tender documents, a little more must be invested in preparation.
After commissioning, the project can be started immediately.
You will usually receive a qualified individual offer within one week.
We take your requirements and get a tailor-made offer. You only pay for what you really need! We are also happy to offer different options.
We cover German, English, Spanish and Turkish.
Of course, you can use the service providers already registered and also request our support in the selection process. Registration and participation in the tenders is 100% free of charge for the DL. You are welcome to invite new service providers and contacts, there are no restrictions.
The platform is very intuitively designed, so that no manual is required to a large extent. In addition, there are videos directly where you need them. Manuals can of course also be created on request.