This platform is for:

Independently branded low-cost-carrier airline-style (LCC) booking platform with dynamic pricing for higher and more balanced utilization, operating in parallel with current commercial organization.

Transport providers supported are:

• Shipping line with own agents.
  See the deployment scenario:  ARL e-Yield for Shipping Lines;
• Shipping line with foreign agents. 
  See the deployment scenario:  ARL e-Yield for Shipping Lines;
• Short sea vessel operator, container, ro-ro and ferry. 
  See the deployment scenario:  ARL e-Yield for Cargo Low Cost Carriers;
• Rail or barge operator. 
  See the deployment scenario:  ARL e-Yield for Rail Operator;
• Multi-modal transport provider.
  See the deployment scenario:  ARL e-Yield for Cargo Low Cost Carriers;
• NVO/ NVOCC.
  See the deployment scenario:   ARL e-Yield for NVOCC;
• Agent for transport provider.
  See the deployment scenario:   ARL e-Yield for Liner Agents;
• LCL transport company w/ scheduled transport service.
  See the deployment scenario:   ARL e-Yield for Cargo Low Cost Carriers.

ARL e-Yield is using a sophisticated pricing engine driven by market forecast profiles and utilization triggering parameters, allowing transport provider to utilize assets as much as possible, and thereby drive unit costs down. 

Prices offered are adjusted automatically by the platform, and alternative products to the primary products are released for booking, taking expected market conditions and actual booking status compared to expected booking volume relative to closing time into account.

The customer is offered multiple options at all times each departure priced according with specific conditions, highlighting the difference between popular and less popular departure clearly in front of the customers eyes,.

During setup concrete and business oriented parameters like "percentage of alternative products released for booking, if actual bookings on primary product is 10% too low compared with projections for current time prior to closing?' is stated once for all by transport provider.

If -say- 40DRY is setup as alternative product to primary product 2x20DRY (assuming 2x20DRY brings better yield than 1x40DRY, and 1x40DRY brings better yield than an empty slot), and only 10x20DRY bookings is received two days prior to closing, when 15x20DRY was projected, the e-Yield platform will perform all the tough calculations online and determine upon customer's request for 40DRY space, how many slots are available right now, and at which price.

The transport provider adjust the parameters while gaining experience from actual utilization and yield from past departures. The pricing function is turned into a live business intelligence management function!