At a forwarding or transport company, a transport request is often won on speed. A customer sends the same email to several carriers in Outlook, or posts the cargo on the Trans.eu or TimoCom exchange, and takes the quote from whoever replied first and clearly. Meanwhile the sales rep calculates kilometers, checks CargoWise for what you charged for a similar route last month, remembers whether deferred payment terms apply to that customer, and writes the quote from scratch. When there are many requests, some replies go out the next day, and some prices are calculated from memory and differ from company rules.
The assistant receives the request from Outlook or from Trans.eu and TimoCom notifications and extracts the route, cargo parameters, dates and special requirements. From your rate sheet and the distance it calculates a base price, from the trip history in CargoWise or FireTMS it shows similar earlier cargo with their prices and actual cost, and it prepares a draft quote from your template: price, payment term, loading and delivery terms, liability, validity. The sales rep sees the draft in Outlook next to the basis of the calculation, adjusts the margin or terms and sends it from their own mailbox, or enters the price on the exchange themselves. The assistant sends nothing to the customer and submits no offers on the exchange. We deploy it through the ChatGPT API on the OpenAI platform, where your rate sheet and requests are not used for model training; the rate sheet and trip history stay in CargoWise and your Excel files, and we integrate with CargoWise through an API, a file export or an email flow, depending on the version. We agree the calculation logic and the distance source with you before launch.