# Your Ocean Freight, Your Way: Smarter Allocations, Bookings, and Contracts Full visibility meets full control. Flexport’s upgraded Booking Management tool reimagines your ocean freight workflows from end to end—with you at the helm. Manage your entire network of ocean contracts and bookings, track real-time performance data and key milestones, and optimize your allocation strategy—all on a single, easy-to-use platform. ### Contracts and Bookings, Simplified Manage ocean contracts and bookings across your entire network of providers. Optimize your planning with real-time analytics and robust forecasting—all while visualizing historical and future contract usage, carrier booking performance, and allocation utilization. Along the way, it’s easier than ever to minimize booking discrepancies and optimize inventory flow: simply fine-tune parameters based on route and date. ### A Single Source of Truth Access communications, documentation, shipment tracking, and data analysis in a single place—complete with upstream visibility into supplier and carrier workflows. Evaluate shipping volumes against contracts, with performance breakdowns by lane, carrier, country, forwarder, and validity period. Across all views of data, build graphs and other visualizations for carrier scorecarding, while automatically generating reports to track progress over time. ### Better Data, More Agility Leverage data to plan for both today and the future. Forward-looking booking data empowers you to make proactive allocation and procurement decisions to increase the agility and resilience of your supply chain. ## How It Works ## Suppliers place bookings on the Flexport booking app. Leave the heavy lifting to us. In line with your allocation strategy, Flexport manages your carrier-direct and NVO contracts, books shipments on your behalf, and provides a top-to-bottom look at contract allocation and carrier booking performance. ## Flexport manages communication between you, suppliers, and carriers. We act as a central control tower for communication, keeping everyone in the loop. Along the way, we help you strengthen your carrier relationships by regularly evaluating volume attainment against carrier Minimum Quantity Commitments (MQCs). ## Analyze real-time performance, forecast future shipping volumes, and automate reporting—without ever leaving your Allocation Management dashboard. Make the most of your data, right from the get-go. Analyze and download contract-level insights and historical contract usage, project future shipping volumes, and automatically generate reports across your entire ocean network. Meanwhile, view shipment highlights and track key milestones—all on a single platform. ## Take Your Booking Management Further ### Order Management Unlock visibility and stay on track of your orders. ### Customs Clear goods quickly. Use data for strategy. ### Ocean Freight Cross the ocean reliably, thanks to oceans of data. ### Less than Container Use every TEU to keep goods on the move. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Flexport Booking Management? Flexport Booking Management is a centralized digital tool that lets you manage and confirm all your freight bookings with suppliers and logistics partners in one place, reducing email chains and miscommunication. ### Who is Booking Management designed for? It’s built for importers, exporters, and supply chain managers who coordinate multiple shipments from multiple suppliers and want to improve on-time freight bookings. ### How does Flexport Booking Management work? Suppliers receive booking requests through the platform, confirm or update shipment details, and your team gets visibility into status, schedules, and any changes in real time. ### Does Booking Management integrate with Order Management or other Flexport products? Yes, it connects seamlessly with Order Management and the broader Flexport Platform so confirmed bookings align with purchase orders, shipment tracking, and customs processes. ### How much does Flexport Booking Management cost? You can talk to our team of logistics experts for quotes and personalized service.