If you’re a 3PL, you know the grind of responding to RFPs. Brands want proof of savings fast — and you’re stuck trying to demonstrate cost advantages using Excel or other relics from the 90s. It’s tedious, slow, and packed with sales friction.
The typical workflow looks something like this:
1. Ask prospects for package level detail (PLD) files in a specific format.
2. Receive PLD files in the wrong format — and ask for them again.
3. Import everything into Excel and scramble analysts to produce a response.
4. Manually calculate shipment pricing using marked up carrier contracts and an ever growing list of surcharges.
5. Repeat the entire process as negotiations evolve.
6. If you win the business, spend time and money custom coding rate markup rules into legacy WMS or shipping systems.
As parcel complexity and costs skyrocket, this approach simply doesn’t scale. 3PL sales and analysts need a faster, more flexible way to model rates, respond to clients, and generate insights that actually move the revenue needle.
That’s exactly where Sendflex changes the game.
Instead of wrestling with Excel for hours (or days), Sendflex delivers a high speed, automated modeling engine that lets you:
• Auto import and map PLD files
• Auto import carrier rate contracts using LLM technology
• Create customer specific rate cards with configurable markups
• Rate 100,000 PLD shipments per second with anywhere to anywhere rating
• Run “what if” simulations using no code business rules
• Export results directly into your BI tools — including Excel
• Apply Sendflex optimization to order allocation, planning, and shipping processes
If you’re a 3PL looking to accelerate revenue, respond to RFPs faster, and deliver clearer insights to your clients, Sendflex is built for you.
Ready to break free from Excel and level up your parcel modeling.
Contact us today. Or better still, let's meet up at Manifest next week and we can show you the Sendflex way to model.
