Cendant Mobility, Danbury

Cendant Mobility, a Danbury-based provider of global mobility management and workforce development solutions, has introduced an international freight-forwarding model based on predetermined traffic lanes between departure and destination cities. Initial findings demonstrate cost savings of an average of 30 percent for Cendant Mobility’s corporate, government and affinity relocation clients.

Cendant Mobility partnered with Colorado-based Parsifal Corp., a household goods auditing firm, and created an online transactional mechanism that collects, oversees and stores pricing information for the worldwide shipping of household goods.

Freight forwarders submit online bids to Cendant Mobility for air, surface and permanent storage. The system stores lane pricing bids from suppliers in order to generate transactional bids that reflect the cost per individual move. The customized program and database are available only from Cendant Mobility and applies to virtually all international moves.

The enhancement to Cendant Mobility’s current service delivery model has been shown to reduce its clients’ costs based on a number of different components built into the new approach, notably increased competition and a system that compares all possible bid combinations to secure the lowest bottom-line cost and the highest service components.

“Cendant Mobility is pleased to deliver this technology-enabled system to clients and customers around the world,” said Michael Mancini, the company’s senior vice president of global supplier relations. “By partnering with Parsifal Corp. and integrating its Web-based system, through which our international movers and freight forwarders submit pre-bids for specific city-to-city routes, Cendant Mobility is able to select the best supplier for our clients at the most competitive price and without any loss of time or efficiency.”