FACT SHEET
Transport Planner
Tired of complex, costly TMS implementations and inefficient manual planning? Our agile logistics solution delivers optimal transport results with unprecedented speed and simplicity for a fraction of the cost.
Swap endless implementations for rapid cost optimization with agile transport planning.
It turns every goods handover into a real-time digital handshake, enabling recipients to confirm deliveries and flag discrepancies at pallet or item level in seconds. As part of the Digital Transport Documents suite, it is legally compliant and eFTI-ready, capturing sender and recipient details, item information, quantities and tracking data, giving you instant proof of delivery and live visibility into what’s on each truck.
Challenges our solution solves
Inefficient manual processes
Relying on spreadsheets, phone calls and emails for planning is labor-intensive, error-prone and rarely achieves optimal results, leading to suboptimal outcomes and wasted money.
Prohibitive TMS costs & complexity
Heavyweight TMS solutions offer overly complex planning and demand significant implementation effort, specialized expertise and consulting, and substantial investment in time and money, making them inaccessible for many mid-market companies.
Implementation paralysis
Traditional TMS solutions require months to deploy and massive investments, delaying critical cost savings, achieving optimization at a disproportionate cost in time, money and complexity.
Mid-market disadvantage
Without the ability to fund large-scale projects, mid-market companies frequently lose their competitive edge, missing out on crucial planning intelligence.
Key features
Optimal balance between cost, simplicity and effectiveness
Obtain optimal results at a fraction of the cost, delivering an unparalleled balance of low fees, simplified implementation and significant savings in labour and transportation costs.
Seamless integration & easy implementation
Works standalone through direct TMS/ERP integration, and connects with core the Trimble Transportation solutions Transport Assignment, Transport Operations and Rate Management, as well as with AI agents, including Trimble Arc. Deploy and deliver value within days or weeks, not months, for immediate efficiency gains.
Optimization at scale with multi-objective control
Compute high-quality plans in minutes, even for large daily volumes, and replan frequently as conditions change, prioritizing what matters most, with different objectives per scheduling unit.
Coverage for complex scenarios
Plan with the constraints that matter in your daily operation: stackability-aware consolidation, multiple capacity limits (loading meters, pallets, weight), multi-stop routes and return-to-origin, without sacrificing speed or ease of use.
Complete flexibility & control
Maintain full control over your operations with the ability to manually split or rearrange transports, and easily adjust rules and constraints to fit any business scenario.
KPI dashboards & AI-assisted recommendations
Improve decision-making with instant visibility into cost, distance and efficiency metrics, scenario comparison tools that enable data-driven decisions and AI recommendations that help planners choose and tune the right settings.
Benefits
Dramatic cost reduction
Achieve optimal results at a fraction of the cost compared to heavyweight TMS solutions, with significant savings in both implementation costs and ongoing operational expenses through freight spend savings, low fees and cost-effective carrier selection.
Better utilization with less manual effort
Improve capacity utilization and reduce unnecessary transport spend across large volumes, creating more efficient plans with far less manual work and exception handling.
Continuous improvement and confident decisions
Get instant clarity on cost, distance and efficiency through KPI dashboards after every planning run, and compare scenarios before you choose a plan.
Operational excellence with human control
Automated planning combined with manual override ensures optimal efficiency while planners stay in control of review, approval and release, moving confidently from plan creation to execution.
Seamless workflow integration
Native integration with the Trimble Transportation ecosystem creates an end-to-end automated workflow from planning through carrier assignment to execution monitoring, eliminating manual handoffs and data silos.
Quick ROI and rapid time-to-value
Rapid deployment, minimal setup effort and low fees deliver a significantly faster return on investment and a lower total cost of ownership, with immediate improvements in transport operations within days or weeks.
How it works
- Create deliveries Manual / TMS / ERP input
- Select deliveries and configure planning parameters Objectives (e.g., minimize distance, costs, number of trucks) Constraints (e.g., time windows, vehicle capacity, driving times)
- Run optimization Automatically process deliveries and create optimal transport combinations
- Review, compare & approve Evaluate the proposed plan, compare scenarios with KPI outputs, accept optimal combinations or make manual adjustments, then approve and release.
- Automate execution Release the approved plan straight to execution. Either back to your own TMS/ERP through direct integration, or into the Trimble TMS ecosystem, including automated carrier assignment using predefined rates from Rate Management.
