Category-specific procurement for market leaders
Demonstrate your expertise by implementing best-in-class software tailored to lubricant procurement.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Get started with Closelink
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.
Stay ahead with Closelink
Discover how forward-thinking ship managers leverage Closelink to gain competitive edge.
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Exceed owners’ expectations
Ensure streamlined processes and a highest degree of efficiency with Closelink.