Logistics, Shipping & Freight
The load moved, the data didn't
We build the layer that sits over your TMS, WMS and carrier feeds — turning EDI messages, POD photos and GPS pings into an answer before the customer rings to ask.
Talk to us about your projectWhere freight visibility actually breaks
Visibility rarely fails at the truck. It fails at the joins — a 214 that lands four hours after the driver left the yard, a terminal that only publishes to its port community portal, a subcontracted leg carrying no telematics at all. The map looks complete because the gaps are drawn as straight lines.
The second failure is documentary. A bill of lading, a packing list and a commercial invoice disagree by one digit, and the box sits at the port while three companies email about it. Much of what we build here is less about prediction than about making the paperwork and the physical movement agree.
Capabilities
What we build for freight operations
Most of this sits on top of the TMS you already run. A rip-and-replace is rarely the honest answer here, and we would rather say so before you have paid for one.
ETA and delay prediction
Trained on your own lane history, carrier on-time record, weather and traffic, then scored per lane and pushed into dispatch rather than a weekly OTIF review.
Document automation
Bills of lading, commercial invoices, packing lists and customs declarations drafted from the booking, with POD images read back and reconciled against the order line.
EDI and carrier integration
204 tenders, 214 status and 210 invoices mapped into your TMS, including the carriers still sending EDIFACT IFTSTA or a nightly sFTP drop.
Exception detection
Watches GPS, reefer temperature and terminal dwell, raising the container that has stopped moving before demurrage starts accruing against it.
Cargo provenance
Each handoff between exporter, forwarder, carrier and importer signed and timestamped, so a shipment's history is one record instead of five that disagree.
Milestone-based settlement
Payment released against a confirmed gate-out or proof of delivery, rather than an invoice held while two parties argue about whose timestamp was correct.
Driver and warehouse apps
Route sequence, digital signature and proof of delivery captured offline in a dead zone, then synced back to the TMS once the handset finds signal.
Quote and tender handling
Inbound rate requests parsed out of email, matched to lane and equipment type, then drafted back under your own rules on accessorials and fuel surcharge.
Customer-facing tracking
Tracking by container or booking reference showing the same ETA your dispatcher sees, so the "where is my load" call is never placed.
What you get
What you own at the end
Every engagement ends with things another team can pick up, including the parts a vendor usually keeps to itself.
- LIVE SYSTEM
- Running against your TMS
- Deployed alongside the TMS and WMS you already operate, with source, integration mappings and the deploy pipeline handed over. Changing a routing rule should not require booking time with us.
- INTEGRATION MAP
- Every feed, in writing
- Which EDI transaction sets, APIs and sFTP drops you send and receive, per carrier, with the field mappings beside them. This is the document nobody has once the integration engineer leaves.
- MODEL BASELINE
- ETA accuracy per lane
- How the prediction performed against held-back historical shipments, split by lane and carrier, so you can see where it earns trust and where dispatch should still override it.
- OPERATING NOTES
- Failure modes and running cost
- What happens when a carrier feed goes quiet, what the driver app does after a full shift with no signal, and what the whole thing costs at your shipment volume.
How we work
From one broken handoff to a live system
Timelines below are typical for a first build covering one region or one lane group. Scope that survives a pilot is worth more than scope that survives a proposal.
Operational scoping
1 weekWe follow a single shipment end to end: who touches it, which system records each handoff, and the exact point where the information stops being current.
Data and feed review
1–2 weeksWe read your real EDI traffic and telematics history. If it cannot support a trustworthy ETA, we say so here rather than after the build is paid for.
Build and integrate
4–10 weeksCarrier, TMS and WMS integrations, the model or the ledger, and the driver or customer app, tested against live shipments instead of sample files.
Run and tune
OngoingWatching where dispatch overrides the prediction, tightening exception rules, and onboarding carriers as they sign. The second lane costs far less than the first.
Is this the right fit for your operation?
Worth reading before you get in touch — it saves both of us a call.
A good fit if…
- You run a TMS or WMS and want a layer over it
- Several carriers or subcontractors touch the same shipment
- Your team retypes data between a carrier portal and a spreadsheet
- Someone can hand us real EDI traffic and shipment history
Probably not, if…
- You need a TMS built from scratch — Web & SaaS Platform Development fits
- Provenance is the entire product — Custom Blockchain Solutions is the better start
- Only a driver app is in scope — Mobile App Development is shorter
- Shipments live in email and spreadsheets, with no system of record yet
Frequently Asked
Questions
Common questions about logistics and freight software.
ETA prediction that accounts for weather, traffic, and historical lane performance. Intelligent routing for last-mile. Document automation for bills of lading and customs paperwork. Anomaly detection on GPS/temperature streams. Conversational interfaces so dispatch and drivers can query the TMS by voice or chat.
End-to-end cargo provenance (handoff history across multiple carriers), tamper-proof cold-chain temperature logs, smart-contract settlement (payment releases when milestone X is confirmed), and streamlined customs documentation shared across exporters, freight forwarders, carriers, and importers.
Yes. We integrate with SAP TM, Oracle OTM, Manhattan TMS, MercuryGate, custom and legacy TMS via EDI, and freight-marketplace APIs (Loadsmart, Convoy-style platforms where available). WMS integrations with Manhattan, Blue Yonder, Körber, and custom systems.
Add. The normal path is: AI layer + blockchain anchoring sit alongside your existing TMS/WMS, connected via APIs, EDI, or middleware (MuleSoft, Boomi). Your ops team keeps using the tools they know — the intelligence and verification run in the background.
Yes. Driver apps with route optimization, proof of delivery, digital signatures, offline mode, and integration back to the TMS. Customer-facing apps for shipment tracking, ETA, and notifications. Both can be pure mobile or part of a larger platform build.
Have a project in mind?
Fixed price after a paid discovery — no hourly billing. A real engineer reads every enquiry, and we reply within 24 hours.