Ship Angel and Archlet Partner to Bridge Freight Sourcing and Execution

We’re excited to announce a strategic partnership between Ship Angel and Archlet, bringing together two modern platforms that address a long-standing gap in how freight decisions are made and executed.

Freight procurement has become more complex and data-driven over the past decade. Shippers run detailed sourcing events, evaluate hundreds or thousands of lanes, and generate award decisions that are intended to guide operational execution. Yet all too often, those decisions break down once they leave the sourcing environment - trapped in spreadsheets, re-keyed manually, or lost between systems.

This partnership between Ship Angel and Archlet is designed to ensure that doesn’t happen anymore.

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Why This Partnership Matters

• Archlet focuses on strategic freight sourcing: It helps procurement teams structure events, analyze bids, and model award scenarios using data, collaboration, and automation. This becomes especially important as RFQs grow in scale and complexity.
• Ship Angel focuses on execution: Once a sourcing event concludes, Ship Angel takes the awarded outcomes and operationalizes them - keeping live rates synchronized, enabling booking governance, and automating audit and compliance.
• Together, upstream and downstream connect: The result is a smoother, more reliable path from sourcing strategy through execution and performance measurement.

By linking these workflows, the partnership aims to reduce value leakage between procurement and operations - so rate decisions made with deep analysis actually hold up in real shipping environments.

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A Shared Vision for Modern Freight Workflows

As freight markets have become more dynamic and data-dependent, the need for systems that work together has become clearer. Procurement platforms must integrate with execution systems - and execution systems must respect the intent of sourcing outcomes.

As Graham Parker, CEO & Co-Founder of Ship Angel, explains:

“Connecting sourcing decisions with execution has been a missing link in freight for years. By partnering with Archlet, we’re helping customers ensure sourcing outcomes are operationally actionable from day one.”

Through this partnership:

• Sourcing teams can be confident their award decisions are ready for execution
• Operations teams get access to structured rate data that reflects sourcing intent
• Shippers gain visibility and control across a traditionally fragmented part of the supply chain
  
  

Lukas Wawrla, CEO & Co-Founder at Archlet, added:

“As freight sourcing becomes more data-driven, the gap between procurement strategy and execution becomes impossible to ignore. Our new partnership with Ship Angel enables our clients to leverage best-in-class eSourcing technology combined with best-in-class rate management.”

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What Comes Next

This is the beginning of a broader collaboration. Over the coming months, Ship Angel and Archlet will share integrations and workflows that help customers operationalize sourcing outcomes more effectively, reduce manual handoffs, and strengthen governance across freight rate lifecycles.

Stay tuned for updates as we roll out our first joint capabilities and share customer-centric stories that highlight real-world impact.

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About Ship Angel

Ship Angel is an AI-native operating system built for global shippers, designed to connect freight rates, execution, and governance in one modular platform. Built exclusively for BCOs, Ship Angel helps supply chain and procurement teams move faster, reduce cost leakage, and maintain control across the full freight lifecycle.

The platform unifies rate management, booking execution, freight audit, purchase order orchestration, and AI-driven decision support - ensuring sourcing and pricing decisions remain intact once freight moves into day-to-day operations. 

Ship Angel is trusted by global shippers including 3M, Roku, and Associated British Foods. Headquartered in New York City, Ship Angel was built from real operational experience in global logistics and is designed to scale with the evolving needs of modern supply chains. To learn more, visit shipangel.com.

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About Archlet

Archlet is an AI-native strategic eSourcing and eAuction platform that helps procurement teams manage complex RFIs, RFPs and RFQs with greater speed, intelligence, and simplicity. From bid setup and supplier collaboration to cost analysis, scenario modeling, and negotiation support, Archlet enables teams to run faster, more effective sourcing processes and make confident award decisions.

Leading procurement teams at global enterprises including Bosch, Estée Lauder, Grainger, and TotalEnergies trust Archlet to handle all their Freight Sourcing Events at scale and drive value across the entire sourcing process. Archlet is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland with US headquarter in Philadelphia, PA. To learn more, visit archlet.com.