purchaser background
Tramper icon
Tramper

A resilient procurement approach for tramp shipping

Increase your resilience against constant change, generate tangible cost savings and ensure uninterrupted supplies.

Schedule screen
Average consumption
Resilience icon
Resilience

Predictive monitoring

  • Vessel specific tank information including max capacities and safety reserve limits

  • Cleaned and qualified ROB reports to accurately foresee vessel reach by days left sailing

  • Automated email alerts and notifications based on key lifting ports, next ports of call, and stock reporting

  • Pre-configured reports to identify contract improvement opportunities

feature closelink
Flexibility icon
Flexibility

Adaptive sourcing

  • Upcoming vessel demand overview to give you time to make the right move

  • Color-coded port prices to quickly identify the best lifting option among your existing contract

  • Comprehensive product equivalent table for broader sourcing and quick option comparison

  • A broad network of over 100 suppliers in case of emergency or short-notice supplies

feature closelink
Compliance icon
Compliance

Process integrity

  • Vessel luboil chart for immediate requisition verification during the entire ordering process

  • Configurable approval process with different approver limits on company or even 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

Feature workflow
Feature icon
Functionalities

Designed for marine lubricants

Generate tangible cost savings and ensure uninterrupted supplies with Closelink.

Key ports

Define key ports for your entire fleet, individual vessels or particular trading areas. Get notified about key port opportunities, to concentrate volumes at preferred locations whenever possible.

Marine lubricant Remaining on board ROB

ROBs

View all tanks per vessel, with default products, max capacities, warning limits, and safety reserves to enhance inventory control. Real-time, color-coded stock levels help prevent costly last-minute orders and improve budget control.

Lubrication charts

Refer to the vessel's leading lubrication chart during the entire ordering process. Easily cross-check and confirm product selection, ensuring accurate and efficient ordering whenever needed.

View of closelink platform showing integrated chat with suppliers for improved procurement of marine lubricants

Live-chat

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

Marine lubricant price comparison

Best price hint

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

Power up your operations

Optimize decision making with direct access to high quality data.

Onboarding icon
Onboarding

Get started with Closelink

Benefit from Closelink platform in less than 2 weeks

Set and account icon
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.

Closelink order icon
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.

Monitor and plan icon
Integrate ROBs and schedules

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

Strategy icon
Integrate your ordering system

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

Article icon
Articles

Stay ahead with Closelink

Discover how leading tramp operators leverage Closelink to increase resilience and save costs.

Calculated Average Consumption chart representing dynamic and static values of lubricant consumption.
Product

Introducing: Calculated Average Consumption

The new Calculated Average Consumption feature provides users with precise insights into their vessels' lubricant consumption, significantly improving demand forecasting.
LR OneOcean and Closelink Logo
Integration

LR OneOcean and Closelink integrate lubes procurement into Cloud Fleet Manager

The collaboration automates transfer of lube-oil requisitions from the Cloud Fleet Manager to Closelink’s platform for optimized planning and ordering.
Navtor and Closelink logos
Integration

Closelink integrates NAVTOR real-time data

The collaboration brings NAVTOR's stock reporting (ROB) data directly into Closelink to help ship managers generate greater cost savings and enhance planning in lubricant procurement.

Navigate with confidence

Increase your resilience against constant change  and ensure uninterrupted supplies.

Big ship animation