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Logistics & Supply-Chain Software Services — Build & Integrate TMS, WMS & Fleet
Hire a dedicated engineering team to build your TMS, WMS, last-mile, or fleet platform — production-grade logistics software for shippers, 3PLs, carriers, and mobility operators across the US and EU. Nine years, 80+ senior engineers, NPS 71. We integrate EDI and REST/API carrier connections from day one and typically ship a focused first release in 8–16 weeks, replacing brittle spreadsheets and rigid off-the-shelf suites with systems that mirror how your dispatch, warehouse, and customer-visibility workflows actually run.
We deliver Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Order Management (OMS), last-mile dispatch apps, fleet telematics platforms, and freight/customs tools — engineered as one connected stack or as discrete modules that plug into what you already run. Every build includes EDI and REST/GraphQL integrations with carriers, brokers, and marketplaces; ELD and IoT telematics ingestion; and a route-optimization engine tuned to your constraints — time windows, capacity, multi-stop, hazmat, driver hours, and cross-border rules. Compliance posture: GDPR-aligned, ISO 27001 ready, SOC 2 Type II in progress, CCPA-acknowledged. Explore how we deliver this through our Mobile App Development service.
Challenges
Industry challenges we solve
Fragmented telematics
Mixed fleets mean four telematics vendors and three data formats. We normalize CAN, FMS and ELD into a single stream.
Driver-rest compliance
Tachograph rules, posting and cabotage are unforgiving. Our planners enforce them before a load is dispatched.
Last-mile cost
Last mile eats margin. We rebuild routing with real-time traffic, parking constraints and EV charging windows.
CO2 reporting
CSRD pushes scope 3 transport emissions into board reports. We compute them per shipment with auditable methodology.
Customer visibility
Shippers want live ETA, not phone calls. We deliver tracking with confidence intervals, not just dots on a map.
Solutions
Solutions we build
Transport management
Order intake, planning, dispatch, settlement and analytics for asset-based and brokerage operators.
Route optimization
VRP solvers with time windows, multi-depot, EV charging and driver-rest constraints.
Fleet IoT
Telematics ingestion, geofencing, predictive maintenance and driver coaching dashboards.
Last-mile and parcel
Driver apps, proof of delivery, locker integration and dynamic dispatch for couriers and CEP.
Warehouse and yard
WMS extensions, slotting, dock scheduling and yard management with handheld and forklift UX.
Mobility platforms
MaaS, ride-hail, micromobility and shared-fleet operations with payments and pricing engines.
What we build
Logistics software we build
Most logistics stacks grow by accretion: a TMS bought a decade ago, a WMS bolted on during a warehouse move, and spreadsheets filling every gap in between. We build the systems that close those gaps — as one connected platform or as individual modules that integrate with what you already run. Every engagement is led by senior engineers through our custom software development practice, with infrastructure handled by our Cloud & DevOps team.
Delivery spans both sides of the Atlantic: US operators get FMCSA-aware builds with East-Coast overlap hours, EU operators get GDPR, eFTI and Mobility Package fluency by default. The sections below describe each system class we build; for the deeper industry context — market shifts, build-vs-buy math and stack choices — our logistics software cost & stack guide is the long-form companion to this page.
Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
Order intake, rating, load planning, dispatch, carrier tendering, settlement and margin analytics for asset-based fleets and brokerages. We design the planning core around your real constraints — driver hours, cabotage, hazmat, time windows, EV charging — instead of forcing dispatchers to work around a generic engine. For US operators we build FMCSA HOS / ELD-aware workflows; for EU fleets we encode Mobility Package rules directly into the planner. For module architecture, integrations and realistic cost ranges, see our TMS development guide.
Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Receiving, putaway, slotting, wave and batch picking, packing, dock scheduling and cycle counting — with the handheld scanner UX designed alongside the web dashboards, not as an afterthought. Our warehouse platform work doubled throughput for a stock-management operator precisely because the mobile scanner client shipped in the same sprints as the back office. Larger rollouts run through our enterprise software development practice. Planning a build? Our WMS development guide covers the four core modules, ERP integration and cost ranges.
Fleet management and telematics
Telematics ingestion from CAN bus, FMS, ELD and OEM feeds over MQTT and Kafka, with geofencing, driver coaching, predictive maintenance and fuel analytics on top. Mixed fleets usually mean three or four telematics vendors — we normalize them into one stream so operations sees a single fleet, not a patchwork of vendor portals. See our fleet management software development guide for the telematics architecture, TCO impact and 2026 cost ranges.
Route optimization engines
Vehicle routing is where logistics software earns its keep — and where generic engines quietly lose money. We build VRP solvers on OR-Tools and custom heuristics with the constraints that off-the-shelf routing ignores: hard and soft time windows, multi-depot and multi-trip planning, heterogeneous fleets, EV range and charging windows, driver-rest rules and hazmat corridors. Objective functions are tuned to your blend of cost, CO2 and SLA, and we validate against your historical routes before a single dispatcher has to trust the output. On mobile, incremental re-optimisation keeps recalculation instant even as stops are added or completed mid-shift — the approach we proved in production on xRouten.
EDI and carrier integration layers
X12 and EDIFACT document flows (204, 214, 210, 990, DESADV, IFTSTA), AS2 connectivity, and REST/GraphQL APIs for partners who have moved past EDI. We build translation and orchestration layers so onboarding the next carrier or 3PL customer becomes configuration, not a development project. The full picture is in our EDI integration guide for logistics.
Track & trace and customer visibility
Shipment-level tracking portals with live ETAs computed from telematics and traffic — confidence intervals rather than a dot on a map. Customer notifications, proof-of-delivery capture and exception workflows ship as web portals and driver apps built by our mobile app development team. For the build-vs-buy math across all of these modules, see our logistics software cost & stack guide.
Integrations
EDI & integrations
Logistics runs on data exchange, and in 2026 that still means EDI. Retailers and large shippers mandate X12 in North America and EDIFACT in Europe; carriers expect 204 load tenders and return 214 status updates; warehouses live on 940/945 and DESADV flows. A logistics platform that cannot speak these dialects fluently will not survive its first enterprise customer.
We treat integrations as a first-class subsystem, not glue code. That means an EDI translation layer with schema validation and replayable message logs; AS2/SFTP transport with proper certificate management; REST and GraphQL APIs alongside EDI for partners who have modernized; and webhook-based event streams so your customers’ systems learn about exceptions the moment they happen. When a mapping breaks at 2 a.m. — and one eventually will — your team gets a readable error and a replay button, not a silently lost tender.
Typical integration targets we have connected: carrier and capacity APIs, telematics and ELD providers, customs and freight-document systems, ERPs (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite), e-commerce platforms and marketplaces, and payment or settlement providers. We cover the formats, the standards politics and realistic timelines in depth in our EDI integration in logistics guide.
Just as important is how integrations are delivered. Every partner connection ships with a test harness and a certification checklist, so you can onboard against a trading partner’s compliance suite without blocking the release train. In production we monitor message volumes and acknowledgement latency, alert on missing 997/CONTRL acknowledgements, and document every mapping so the knowledge survives team changes on either side of the connection.
Stack
Technology stack
Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, TypeScript, React Native, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Redis, Kafka, MQTT, OR-Tools, OpenStreetMap, HERE, Google Maps, Mapbox, Kubernetes, AWS IoT, GCP, Terraform.
Compliance
Compliance & regulations
GDPR-aligned · ISO 27001 ready · SOC 2 Type II in progress · HIPAA-capable · CCPA-acknowledged
- GDPR (EU) + CCPA/CPRA + US state privacy laws — driver and customer data, lawful basis, retention, opt-out flows.
- eFTI Regulation 2020/1056 (EU) — digital freight transport information.
- EU Mobility Package — driving and rest times, posting, cabotage.
- Smart Tachograph 2 — Regulation 2020/1054 data integration.
- US FMCSA HOS / ELD mandate (49 CFR Part 395) — hours-of-service, ELD certification.
- ISO 28000 — supply chain security management.
Privacy is a vertical challenge here — driver location, telematics and customer data carry real regulatory weight on both sides of the Atlantic. We frame the operational requirements on this page and hand the deep implementation to our dedicated GDPR compliance consulting practice for lawful-basis mapping, retention design and data-subject-rights automation.
Integrations
The carrier, telematics and enterprise systems we integrate
Logistics software is only as good as the systems it talks to. Every build ships with the connectors your operation actually runs on — carriers and brokers, telematics devices, mapping engines, and the ERP and warehouse systems of record — through our API development and cloud & DevOps teams.
Carrier & broker networks
EDI (X12 204/210/214/990, EDIFACT IFTMIN/IFTSTA) and REST/GraphQL APIs for tendering, rating, track-and-trace and settlement with asset carriers, brokers, load boards and 3PLs.
Telematics & ELD
CAN bus, FMS, J1939 and OEM telematics plus FMCSA-registered ELD feeds, ingested over MQTT and Kafka, normalized into one real-time signal stream with geofencing.
Mapping, routing & geo
HERE, Google Maps, Mapbox and OpenStreetMap behind PostGIS and OR-Tools VRP solvers — time windows, multi-depot, EV charging and driver-rest constraints.
ERP, WMS & OMS
Two-way data sync with the systems of record logistics teams already run — SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and NetSuite — plus warehouse and order-management platforms.
Customs & trade documents
eFTI-ready data layers, customs and AES/ICS2 filings, HS classification and electronic freight documents authorities can accept across borders.
Payments & freight settlement
Freight audit and payment, invoicing, carrier settlement and ACH/SEPA rails, reconciled back into your accounting and finance systems.
Process
Our logistics engineering process
A repeatable, operations-first path from dispatch floor to production — compliance and integration constraints designed in from day one, not bolted on before launch.
1 · Discovery & operations mapping
We ride along on a dispatch or warehouse shift, map how planning, dispatch and visibility actually work, and inventory every carrier, telematics and ERP integration in scope.
2 · Architecture & data model
Geo and real-time architecture on PostGIS, Kafka and OR-Tools; telematics-normalization and EDI/API contracts; GDPR, eFTI and FMCSA constraints designed in.
3 · Build
TMS, WMS and last-mile modules with a route-optimization engine tuned to your constraints — time windows, capacity, hazmat, driver hours, cross-border — web and mobile scanner/driver clients built in parallel.
4 · Testing & QA
Pick-accuracy and latency targets, VRP validation, telematics and EDI integration tests, and driver-rest / HOS rule enforcement verified before a load is dispatched.
5 · Launch & operations
Real-time fleet dashboards, ETA with confidence intervals, per-shipment CO2 for CSRD, and SLA monitoring — delivered through our custom software and enterprise engineering teams.
Ongoing
Predictive maintenance, driver-coaching feedback loops and continuous routing-model tuning as volumes, lanes and regulations change.
Cases
Selected Logistics case studies
Logistics · Last-mile · Mobile
xRouten
Android + iOS refactor and rebuild for a German last-mile logistics operator — multi-point route planning, real-time driver tracking and in-app invoicing live in the EU.
Logistics · WMS
Warehouse
Warehouse management system with web dashboards and mobile scanners — throughput up 2×, errors down 78%, US & EU ready.
Logistics · Customs clearance
EasyTrain
Laravel + React freight transportation cost calculator — four-role access, three-scenario auto-fill, self-learning knowledge base, US & EU ready.
Results
Logistics case studies in detail
The numbers below come from shipped projects, not projections. Each links to a full case study with architecture and delivery detail.
xRouten — last-mile route optimization for a German operator
A German last-mile logistics operator came to us with a legacy Android app whose route calculation failed, timed out or returned visibly suboptimal sequences that wasted driver hours and fuel. We rebuilt the multi-point route builder in Kotlin against a mapping-SDK matrix API with a 2-opt heuristic, regression-tested it against real German address fixtures and rolled it out behind a feature flag. The result: instant calculation of optimal paths across dozens of stops, incremental re-optimisation as drivers complete deliveries mid-shift, real-time driver tracking and in-app invoicing — live for production fleets in Germany. Building the iOS counterpart with full feature parity adds 14–20 weeks. Read the xRouten case study.
Warehouse — WMS with mobile scanners, 2× throughput
For a stock-management operator we built a warehouse management system with web dashboards and mobile scanner clients developed simultaneously. Warehouse throughput doubled, accounting errors fell 78% — removing manual transcription was the single largest contributor — and inventory shrinkage dropped 31% in the first six months. One hard-won detail: hardening for aged industrial Android terminals and patchy warehouse connectivity deserves a dedicated 4–6 weeks in any WMS budget. Read the warehouse case study.
EasyTrain — freight cost calculation platform
B2B freight pricing hides hundreds of variables in spreadsheets and institutional memory. For EasyTrain we built a Laravel + React freight transportation cost calculator with four-role access, three-scenario auto-fill and a self-learning knowledge base. The client’s product manager estimates the ops team saves around three hours per quote. Extending the platform with multi-tenant deployment and a public EDI API adds 6–10 weeks. Read the EasyTrain case study.
These three projects share a pattern: a focused first release, measurable operational numbers, then extension modules priced in weeks rather than quarters. If your logistics roadmap looks similar, our custom software development team can scope it — or browse all case studies for more delivery detail.
Why YuSMP
Why logistics teams choose YuSMP
Operations DNA
Engineers who ride along on a dispatch shift before they design the schema.
Geo and real-time
PostGIS, Kafka and OR-Tools used in production, not as a slide.
US & EU regulation fluency
EU Mobility Package, eFTI and tachograph 2 alongside US FMCSA HOS / ELD mandate — constraints we design with, not surprises at launch.
Budget
Cost & timeline for logistics software
The honest answer to “what does logistics software development cost” depends on scope, integrations and compliance surface — but you should not have to start a conversation without a market ballpark. Based on our delivery history across US and EU logistics projects, these are realistic 2026 ranges:
- MVP / focused module — a driver app, a track-and-trace portal, a freight calculator: fixed-scope MVPs land between 60k and 120k EUR, delivered in 8–16 weeks by a team of PM, designer, two engineers and QA. See our MVP development service.
- Business-grade system — a TMS module set, a WMS with scanner clients, an integration hub: typically $50k–$150k over 3–6 months.
- Enterprise platform — multi-entity TMS/WMS with EDI onboarding, telematics ingestion and compliance automation: $150k–$500k over 6–12 months; full platforms start from 250k EUR.
- Large-scale, multi-year programs — $500k+ where the logistics software is the product itself.
What moves a project between tiers: the number of EDI and carrier integrations, real-time telematics volume, route-optimization complexity (constraints and fleet size), offline requirements for warehouse and driver hardware, and the US/EU regulatory surface you operate under. We don’t publish fixed hourly rates or packages — every engagement is scoped and quoted against your requirements. See how our pricing works or start with a custom software development conversation.
On timelines: most logistics engagements start with a two-to-three-week discovery in which we map your order-to-cash or dispatch-to-POD flow, audit the integration landscape and produce a scoped delivery plan with a fixed quote for the first release. From there, work runs in two-week sprints with a demo at the end of each — dispatchers and warehouse leads see working software early, which is exactly where TMS and WMS projects usually succeed or fail. For a broader 2026 view of price ranges beyond logistics, see our software development cost benchmark.
What clients say
Large-scale WMS projects fail when the mobile scanner experience is an afterthought. YuSMP built web and mobile scanner clients simultaneously, so pick accuracy and system latency targets were hit from day one. Inventory shrinkage dropped 31% in the first six months.
B2B freight pricing involves hundreds of variables and institutional knowledge that lives in people’s heads. YuSMP built a four-role portal with auto-fill logic and a self-learning knowledge base. Our ops team saves an estimated three hours per quote, every day.
FAQ
Logistics FAQ
Do you build EU eFTI-ready freight platforms?
Yes. We design data exchange layers compatible with eFTI Regulation 2020/1056 so digital freight documents are accepted by EU competent authorities.
How do you handle the EU mobility package and tachograph data?
We integrate smart tachograph 2 data, posting declarations and driver-rest rules into TMS workflows so dispatchers stay compliant in real time.
Can you optimize routes at scale?
We deploy VRP solvers with time windows, multi-depot and EV constraints, and tune objective functions for cost, CO2 and SLA blends.
What about IoT and telematics ingestion?
We ingest CAN bus, FMS, ELD and OEM telematics through MQTT and Kafka, normalize signals and build real-time fleet operations dashboards.
Are driver and customer apps GDPR + CCPA + state-privacy-law ready?
Yes. Location and driver behavior data are sensitive in both regions. For EU drivers we map GDPR lawful basis, minimize retention and automate data subject rights. For US drivers we apply CCPA/CPRA (California), plus Virginia VCDPA, Colorado CPA, Connecticut CTDPA and other state privacy laws — opt-out of sale, right to know, deletion — and align with FMCSA telematics retention rules.
How much does logistics software development cost?
As a market ballpark: a fixed-scope MVP (driver app, tracking portal, freight calculator) lands between 60k and 120k EUR in 8–16 weeks; a business-grade TMS/WMS system typically runs $50k–$150k over 3–6 months; enterprise platforms with EDI, telematics and compliance automation range $150k–$500k over 6–12 months, with full platforms from 250k EUR. Every engagement is scoped and quoted individually.
How long does it take to build a TMS or WMS?
A focused first release ships in 8–16 weeks. Real deltas from our delivery history: adding a second mobile platform with offline-first sync to a WMS adds 8–12 weeks; building an iOS counterpart with full feature parity for a last-mile app adds 14–20 weeks; hardening for aged industrial Android scanners deserves a dedicated 4–6 weeks.
Should we buy an off-the-shelf TMS or build custom?
Buy where you are standard, build where you differentiate. Off-the-shelf suites cover commodity workflows well; custom development pays off in the one or two modules where your operation wins — routing logic, pricing, customer visibility — while integrating the rest. Our logistics software cost & stack guide walks through the build-vs-buy decision in detail.
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