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Category-specific procurement for market leaders

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Marine lubricant procurement budget overview

Why Closelink?

Exceed owners’ expectations

Serving and adapting to different owner’s needs while ensuring streamlined processes and a highest degree of efficiency is a key challenge in professional ship management. Closelink provides a lubricant tailored solution that drives workflow automation and cost transparency, supporting you in leading the digital transition in procurement.

Expertise

Empower your team with the right tool to ensure highest standards of service.

Efficiency

Manage large fleets more easily with automated and proactive workflows

Transparency

Ensure compliance to foster trust with your customers and suppliers

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Expertise

Data-driven decisions

Real-time tracking of individual vessel schedules with automated alerts about upcoming key port calls
Cleaned and qualified ROB reportings to accurately foresee vessel reach by days left sailing
Aggregated demand overview for the full or selected fleet to easily identify upcoming demand or supply opportunities
Vessel lube oil chart for immediate requisition verification during the entire ordering process

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Efficiency

High-class performance

Automated email alerts and notifications when ROB limits are approaching
Automatically calculated prices and costs by port and product for each order
Integration with supplier’s operating systems to receive immediate quotes and order acknowledgements
Easy lube oil cost calculation to quote for new vessels

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Transparency

Process integrity

Configurable approval process with different approver limits on company and vessel basis
Assignable user roles with clearly defined access permissions incl. active buyers and passive viewers
Auditable order-linked supplier communication with order change logbook

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Functionalities

Designed for marine lubricants

Closelink is the easiest way to a resilient procurement strategy that generates tangible cost savings.

Automated alerts & warnings

Get real-time updates on current stock levels and hints about upcoming key ports in the vessel schedules.

Demand overview

Aggregated view to monitor your fleet’s upcoming demand and vessel’s individual reach to guarantee smooth operations at any time.

Best price hint

Be automatically informed about better pricing options based on your existing contractual terms.

Marine Lubricant procurement approval process

Group management

Manage multiple companies and fleets within your group, while controlling user access, roles, and permissions through configurable company settings.

Live-chat

Chat with your supplier in real-time, directly on the platform, with context-based insights at your fingertips.

Power up your operations

Discover how seamless data exchange maximizes your performance.

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Onboarding

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Set up your account

Get started by adding your team members and vessels. Assign a default supplier per vessel and mirror your existing approval process in Closelink, if required.

Place your first order

Connect with your contractual suppliers or access Closelink’s spot market with over 100 registered suppliers to manage your emergency requisitions.

Integrate ROBs and schedules

Automatically transfer your daily noon reports into Closelink and integrate your vessel schedule to enable proactive planning and inventory management.

Integrate your ordering system

Connect Closelink with your ordering system to enable a seamless enquiry and order process and to initiate automated workflows.

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Company News

Welcome Aneesh to Closelink

In August, Aneeshmon Thankappan joined the Closelink sales team as our Regional Business Development Manager based in Asia. Aneesh has worked in sales, strategic business development, marketing, and project management in the maritime, oil, and gas industry for 20 years.

Partnerships

BW LPG chooses Closelink as new procurement platform

Closelink is excited to announce that BW LPG has joined its marine lubricants procurement platform as a new customer. BW LPG is a globally leading LPG vessel owner and operator.

Partnerships

Integration

StormGeo and Closelink announce new partnership

StormGeo, a leading player in weather intelligence and operational decision support and part of Alfa Laval, has entered into a partnership with Closelink, a Hamburg-based digital bunker platform provider connecting buyers and suppliers. The cooperation brings together the expertise and capabilities of the two organizations to better serve existing and future customers and drive innovation in the maritime industry.

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Integration

Closelink and S&P Global Commodity Insights announce collaboration

Closelink introduces S&P Global Commodity Insights data integration to its bunker procurement platform enabling comprehensive price benchmarking and index-based contract management.

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Welcome to Closelink, Marta!

Marta joined Closelink’s Commercial team as a management assistant at the beginning of this year. We spoke to her about her upcoming role as well as her extensive background in the shipping industry.

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The year in review: 2023's highlights

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How we think about user experience at Closelink

Here at Closelink, we don’t let the change chase us - we chase the change. In the spirit of progress, we consistently roll out improvements to our procurement platform, ensuring that it remains dynamic and efficient. And that includes how things look and feel! The changes are subtle, yet impactful, maintaining the functionalities that procurement experts rely on daily while offering a more enjoyable user experience.

Partnerships

BW LPG Achieves Significant Cost Saving on Lubricant Spend with Closelink

Closelink, a leader in lubricant-specific procurement, is proud to announce its first-year performance results with BW LPG, a globally leading LPG vessel owner and operator, publicly listed on the Oslo and New York stock exchanges. The results highlight an important 8% cost reduction across the entire fleet’s lube oil spending, demonstrating Closelink’s role in improving cost efficiency through technology.

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Ensuring Uninterrupted Supplies with One of Closelink's Key Features

When sailing in remote areas or experiencing a shortage of products from the primary supplier, urgent and unexpected requisition requests can quickly lead to costly consequences. To address these challenges effectively, Closelink offers a practical and easy-to-use solution.

Integration

Closelink integrates NAVTOR real-time data into its lubricant procurement platform

Closelink GmbH, the leader in marine lubricant procurement, is excited to announce an integration with NAVTOR, a premier provider of fleet monitoring solutions. This collaboration brings NAVTOR's stock reporting (ROB) data directly into Closelink’s procurement platform to help ship managers generate greater cost savings and enhance planning in lubricant procurement.

Integration

LR OneOcean and Closelink partnership integrates lubes procurement into Cloud Fleet Manager

Closelink is excited to announce a recent partnership with LR OneOcean (LR OO), integrating our procurement platform and LR OO’s Cloud Fleet Manager Purchase module. This collaboration enhances the procurement of marine lubricants by automating the transfer of lube-oil requisitions from the Cloud Fleet Manager to Closelink’s platform for optimized planning and ordering.

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