Freight management
Rate quoting and transport request management for a European road carrier, its partners and end customers.
Service
We build systems for freight and dispatch: rate calculation that breaks the route into legs, transport requests with history, documents and emails, and shipments with containers and route sheets. Our basis is the system for a road freight carrier (live) and dispatch tracking at a plant (a prototype).
Animation: a truck drives along a route on a map through hubs, a marker lights up at each hub, and a price column builds up from segments — one per route leg.
Situations that bring people to us for this service.
Leg tariffs, hubs, special zones and surcharges are put together in spreadsheets — slowly and with mistakes.
To find out where a request is, the customer writes and a manager searches.
What went into which vehicle is only visible on a paper sheet.
Resellers want to sell under their own brand with their own markup.
Legs, hubs, zones, surcharges and exceptions — how the rate is calculated today.
Chargeable weight, route legs, direct or transit — price and lead time at once.
Updated by uploading an Excel spreadsheet — no developer needed.
Consignments, addresses and collection windows, documents, statuses with reasons, emails.
Containers and loose items, a vehicle, a route sheet, a check before departure.
Partner sites with their own logo, language and price coefficient.
Reference data, staff and operations sync with your accounting system.
The project path
Every step ends with a decision: go on or stop. We don't start the next one until the previous one has given its answer.
You describe the process and what gets in the way. We reply by email with questions and arrange a call.
We study the process with the people who work in it and write down what the system must change and how we will check it.
We build a working prototype of the key scenario to test the idea on real data rather than on polished screens.
We run the system in your real environment with agreed outcome criteria and a deadline. After the pilot we decide together whether to go further.
We bring it to daily use: reliability, access rights, links to other software, documentation, support. Then we develop it based on user feedback.
Systems where we have already done this kind of work.
In the carrier case study the calculation covers route legs, hubs, special zones, islands, oversize and dangerous goods, and partner coefficients.
Not in our published case studies: the freight status lives in the request, and dispatch in a shipment with scans. Connecting trackers we discuss for the task.
An administrator — by uploading an Excel spreadsheet.
Describe it in a few sentences: how things work today and what gets in the way. We reply by email with questions on the next business day.
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