Compare Susea vs. TIO

Susea is a specialized software designed for ocean freight forwarders, NVOCCs, and customs brokers, focusing on two main functions: rapidly generating quotes and efficiently managing competitive RFQs when necessary. For quoting, Susea processes incoming requests from WhatsApp and email, creates a priced quote based on your established tariffs and margin guidelines, and presents it to your team for a quick approval, ensuring that nothing is sent without prior human oversight. If a quote remains unanswered, Susea automatically prepares a follow-up message. Additionally, as a quote nears its expiration, Susea proactively drafts a re-quote to prevent customers from needing to reach out first. On the procurement front, Susea facilitates reverse-auction RFQs among your agent network, offering options such as sealed, rank-only, best-price, or fully open bidding, allowing you to choose the approach for each tender. Instead of relying on phone calls, agents who fail to submit a bid receive a timely and context-sensitive reminder, streamlining the bidding process further. As a result, Susea not only enhances efficiency but also fosters better communication within the workflow.

TIO serves as an intelligent operating system specifically designed for freight forwarders, seamlessly linking your email inbox with your Transportation Management System (TMS) to manage the coordination process: it interprets incoming shipment emails, associates messages with active jobs, and populates TMS records for your team's approval. TIO efficiently manages each phase of the shipping process, which includes activities such as requesting quotes before booking, authorizing bookings, extracting pre-alerts, staging ISF 10+2, monitoring risks for late freight and detention, dispatching trucks, drafting arrival notices, routing customs documents, matching invoices to rates, and closing lots. Every record created in the TMS receives a thorough review and must be approved by a designated team member prior to TIO making any entries, ensuring that there are no automatic submissions. The system is compatible with platforms such as CargoWise, Magaya, Descartes, GoFreight, and any TMS that supports REST or SOAP APIs, and typically, installation can be completed in less than a week for most freight forwarders. Freight forwarders generally process between 80 to 200 shipments each month, and the manual tasks involved in coordinating between the inbox and TMS—such as reading emails, routing information, re-entering data, and following up—typically take around 8 to 12 minutes for each shipment. By automating these repetitive tasks, TIO significantly reduces the time spent on manual coordination, allowing teams to focus on more strategic activities.