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Software for Logistics & Transport Companies

Fleet scheduling, consignment tracking, digital proof of delivery and driver settlement, built so the operational record and the financial record are the same record.

Capability

The operational problem

Dispatch runs on phone calls and a whiteboard, proof of delivery arrives as photographs in a group chat, and driver settlement is calculated at month end from paperwork that is sometimes missing. Nobody can tell a customer where a consignment is without ringing the driver.

What we build for it

Consignment tracking with status captured at each handover, digital proof of delivery tied to the consignment record, and driver settlement calculated from the same data the operation runs on rather than from re-entered paperwork.

The recurring failure in logistics software is that the operational system and the financial system are populated separately, so the numbers never quite agree and month end becomes an investigation.

We build these as one system with one source of truth. Status captured at handover feeds both the customer-facing view and the settlement calculation, which removes the reconciliation step entirely rather than automating it.

Outcomes

  • Consignment status answerable without phoning the driver
  • Driver settlement produced from operational data, not re-entered paperwork
  • Proof of delivery attached to the record rather than in a chat thread
  • Delays escalated automatically instead of discovered by the customer
Where to start

Capabilities most used in this sector

ERP Solutions

A single operational system covering bookings, inventory, suppliers, accounting, HR and branch control, on a proper double-entry ledger.

Business outcome Month-end closes from one source of truth instead of six reconciled spreadsheets.

Enterprise Software Development

Multi-branch, multi-currency, role-based platforms designed for the scale you are growing into rather than the scale you are at.

Business outcome Scale becomes a configuration change rather than a rebuild in year three.

Business Process Automation

Approvals, notifications, reconciliations, document generation and scheduled reporting wired between the systems you already run.

Business outcome The copy-paste between systems disappears, and exceptions get escalated instead of silently dropped.
Before you ask

The questions that decide the deal

Cost, timeline, ownership and what happens when something breaks. Answered here so the first call can be about your business instead.

What does a custom ERP or CRM build actually cost?

Cost tracks scope, not seats. A focused CRM or a single-department system starts materially lower than a multi-module ERP with a double-entry ledger and multi-branch reporting. After a 30-minute scoping call we send a written fixed price range with the module breakdown behind it, and that range does not move unless the scope moves.

We will also tell you when off-the-shelf software is the cheaper answer. Recommending a custom build that should not exist is the most expensive mistake in this category, and it is ours to avoid rather than yours to discover.

How long before we have something we can use?

You get working software you can log into early, not at the end. Discovery and design usually take one to two weeks, after which delivery runs module by module so each piece can be tested and accepted as it lands.

A focused system is typically live in six to twelve weeks. A full multi-module ERP runs three to nine months to complete, but the first usable modules arrive long before that. There is no six-week silence where you wonder what is happening.

We already have a system. Do we have to replace it?

Usually not, and we have no incentive to say otherwise. The first step is an architecture and code review that tells you whether what you have can carry another two years of growth, what the security exposure is, and what the previous vendor left undocumented.

You get a written risk register with costs attached to each option: fix, replace or retain. Where the existing system is worth keeping, we say so and quote for the remediation instead of the rebuild.

Do we own the code and the data?

Yes, entirely, from day one. Source code, database, hosting credentials, brand vector files and documentation are handed over as a matter of course, not negotiated at the end.

There are no hostage licences, no per-seat fees on your own system, and nothing held back to create leverage at renewal. If you want to move the system to another provider, everything needed to do that is already in your possession.

What happens after launch?

Support is a defined agreement rather than goodwill. It covers monitoring, backups that are verified by actually performing a restore, response-time targets, and a named engineer who already knows your stack.

We also run quarterly reviews to look at what the system is doing in practice versus what it was designed to do, because usage patterns after twelve months are rarely the ones assumed at design time.

How do you handle security and our data?

Least-privilege roles, server-side input validation, complete audit trails on financial and administrative writes, and backups tested by restore rather than assumed to work. These are built in during development, not sold afterwards as a hardening phase.

Your data stays on infrastructure you control and own. We can work within your existing hosting, compliance requirements and data-residency constraints, and we will document exactly who has access to what.

Can you work alongside our in-house developers?

Regularly. That arrangement works best when the boundary is explicit: we take specific modules or the architecture, your team takes the rest, and the API contract between them is agreed and written down before either side starts building.

We document to the standard of someone else maintaining the code, because in this arrangement someone else does.

What if the project goes wrong, or you disappear?

Three structural answers rather than a reassurance. First, each stage has a written exit condition, so a project cannot drift quietly for months. Second, you hold the code, credentials and documentation throughout, so another team could pick it up. Third, every system ships with an ERD, a permission matrix and a runbook written for an engineer who has never seen it.

We also run systems of our own in production, which means we are not a project shop that can quietly stop answering the phone.

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