FACT SHEET
Shipper TMS
Plan, assign, execute and monitor every transport in one connected workflow
Turn transportation demand into completed transports with the operational execution capabilities of Trimble Shipper TMS.
Trimble Shipper TMS connects transport planning, carrier assignment, execution monitoring, visibility and exception management in one modular, AI-ready environment.
Backed by 20+ years of industry expertise, Trimble Shipper TMS turns fragmented processes into connected workflows, giving teams complete control over critical decisions while moving freight faster. Designed to adapt to your stack, it seamlessly complements your existing ERP or TMS, or provides the operational execution capabilities you need as part of a broader modular TMS experience.
Challenges our solution solves
Fragmented execution workflows
Managing execution across siloed spreadsheets and emails causes blind spots, creating costly delays, and reactive disruption management.
Too much manual coordination
Transport teams waste hours assigning loads, chasing status updates, and requesting and updating data across platforms, diverting focus away from strategic performance and operational growth.
Rigid systems and costly customization
Legacy ERP and TMS platforms are expensive to adapt. Evolving market conditions, regional rules, and carrier processes often force costly custom coding and fragile workarounds.
Limited carrier connectivity
Execution tools fail without carrier adoption. Building and maintaining individual carrier integrations drives up costs, slows implementation, and limits scalability.
Key features
Connected transport planning
Turn transportation demand into executable transport plans. Optimize loads and routes according to your operational priorities while maintaining the flexibility to make manual adjustments.
Automated carrier assignment
Assign contracted and spot freight based on rates, capacity, service requirements and your preferred carrier strategy. Automated allocation and fallback workflows help secure the right carrier with less manual effort.
Digital carrier collaboration
Manage assignments, confirmations, transport updates, documents and cost requests through a shared workflow connected to Transporeon’s extensive carrier network.
AI-ready execution
Use AI-supported capabilities to find information, complete tasks and automate recurring execution work more efficiently. Customer-defined controls determine where automation can act and where human approval is required.
Real-time visibility and proactive exception management
Monitor in-transit shipments with live status information, milestones and predictive ETAs. Use alerts and structured workflows to identify delays early, focus attention on transports that need intervention and keep customers and operational partners informed.
Flexible and modular by design
Start with the capabilities you need and expand as your requirements evolve. Control costs with flexible, usage-based pricing that lets you pay for what you use — without the expense and complexity of a monolithic TMS.
Benefits
Lower manual effort
Automate routine planning, assignment, and tracking so teams focus on high-value operational decisions.
Faster transport assignment
Accelerate load acceptance with automated tendering, intelligent allocation, and instant fallback logic.
Greater operational control
Manage end-to-end transport through connected workflows while maintaining complete control over critical exceptions.
Earlier response to disruption
Leverage real-time tracking and predictive ETAs to spot risks early, communicate proactively, and protect delivery performance.
Stronger carrier connectivity
Tap into an established carrier network, eliminating the overhead of separate processes for every carrier.
Improve performance continuously
Turn execution data into actionable analytics to optimize carrier performance, lane costs, and service quality.
How it works
1. Plan Import transportation demand from your ERP to automatically build efficient, executable transport plans.
2. Assign Apply rates, routing guides, and business rules to tender every load to the optimal carrier.
3. Collaborate and execute Exchange updates, documents, and confirmations in one connected shipper-carrier workflow, eliminating email tag and duplicate data entry.
4. Monitor progress and manage exceptions Track milestones and predictive ETAs in real time. Automated alerts highlight at-risk loads instantly so teams can fix delays without checking every shipment. .
5. Improve Analyze execution and carrier metrics to continuously refine routing rules, assignment strategies, and operational processes.
Trimble Shipper TMS is designed to connect operational execution with the capabilities that support the wider transportation lifecycle.
Start with the execution capabilities that solve your most urgent operational needs and expand as your business grows — without replacing everything at once.
Transport Planning
Converts demand into efficient and executable transport plans.
Transport Assignment
Applies carrier strategies and moves freight from planned to confirmed execution.
Visibility
Provides shipment status, milestones, predictive ETAs and exception signals.
Dock & Yard Management
Coordinates appointments and physical movements at facilities.
Freight Audit & Settlement
Validates the financial outcome against contracts, rates and completed transport data.
Network Insights
Turns transportation activity into actionable performance intelligence.
Proofpoints
Connected workflows across planning, assignment, visibility, docks, documents, analytics and settlement
carriers and logistics service providers connected through the network
shippers participating in the ecosystem
less manual administration
savings on freight spend
