Freight forwarders near my plant for exports
The best forwarders near your plant, approved for export quotes.
What it does
Every quarter: freight forwarders and customs brokers within 50 km of your plant, the best-rated first, each with what they likely handle by xMap AI, approved by the export manager.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Shenzhen, find freight forwarding services and customs brokers in the area, write a summary of each with xMap AI, wait for approval, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Exports depend on a reliable forwarder. An approved shortlist makes quoting new lanes quick.
Who it is for
Manufacturing & industrial supply. Manufacturers, industrial distributors and plant teams finding distributors, suppliers and workers, and keeping plants running. Every use case for manufacturing & industrial
Best use cases
- An exporting manufacturer
- A trading company
- A food exporter
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Around the plantWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Forwarders and brokersxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Describe each with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Approve the shortlistLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Add them to the export sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
More for Manufacturing & industrial supply
- Where to build the next plant: workforce and logistics: Industrial areas ranked by workforce and logistics, as a site memo.
- Factories hiring production staff, for my equipment sales: Factories hiring operators, scored as equipment buyers.
- Metal fabricators for welding supply sales: Fabricators graded as welding supply buyers, with the owner.
- Food manufacturers for my packaging sales: Food manufacturers scored as packaging buyers, with procurement.
- Industrial distributors in a new country: Industrial distributors in a new country, scored, with the managing director.
- Truck repair and machine shops for my spare parts reps: New workshops graded as spare parts buyers, to the reps.