Plan truck loads, drivers, routes, and dispatch — without leaving Business Central
Turn sales, purchase, and transfer orders into transport requests, build capacity-controlled truck loads, assign the right vehicle and driver, catch conflicts before dispatch, and release execution-ready Transport Orders — all inside Business Central.
Built for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers
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​Plan by open requests, truck slots, drivers, or visual timeline
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Control weight, volume, floor space, logistic units, and compartments
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Assign vehicles and drivers before release
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Catch overloads, unavailable trucks, and driver conflicts early
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Dispatch with routes, documents, carrier options, and freight cost control
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How Shipper TMS works
Shipper TMS connects Business Central documents, load planning, driver and vehicle assignment, dispatch, and execution confirmation in one transportation workflow.
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Orders become Transport Requests — Sales, purchase, and transfer orders flow into transport planning without duplicate entry.
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Planners build feasible loads — Use Load Management, Truck Load Management, Driver Load Management, or Visual Scheduler depending on how your dispatch team works.
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Loads become Transport Orders — Transport Orders control route, carrier, vehicle, driver, documents, loading sequence, and freight cost.
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Dispatch is executed, tracked, and confirmed — Optional telematics, warehouse workflows, logistic units, and Proof of Delivery extend execution.
Transportation Planning Workspace
Give dispatchers one Business Central workspace to plan from demand, available trucks, driver availability, or a visual timeline — without losing control of capacity, assignments, conflicts, or Transport Orders.
Shipper TMS gives planners multiple planning views inside Business Central. Each view answers a different operational question, but all of them work with the same transportation data, capacity controls, truck assignments, driver assignments, and dispatch documents.
Load Management — request-first planning
Use Load Management when your first question is: “Which released transport requests still need a truck?”
Planners start from a pool of pending Transport Requests and assign them to new or existing Transport Orders. It is the classic worksheet for building loads from demand, moving requests between loads, and working with compartments when vehicle configuration requires it.
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​Start from released Transport Requests
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Assign selected requests to a new or existing Transport Order
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Move or rebalance requests between trucks and compartments
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Control weight, volume, floor space, and logistic units before dispatch
Truck Load Management — truck-first load building
Use Truck Load Management when your first question is: “What should this truck carry in this time slot?”
Dispatchers plan by truck slot — vehicle, date, and time window. For each selected truck, Shipper TMS shows eligible Transport Requests, projected load percentage, fit reasons, warnings, and blocking reasons before the load is created or released.
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Plan by vehicle, planning date, time slot, carrier, vehicle type, and depot
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See empty, planned, partially loaded, full, overloaded, released, and conflict slots
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Review best-fit candidate requests for the selected truck
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Check projected load before assigning new work
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Create, open, and release the linked Transport Order directly from the truck slot
Driver Load Management — driver-first planning and conflict control
Use Driver Load Management when your first question is: “Who is driving this work, with which vehicle, and is anything conflicting?”
Dispatchers review driver slots by planning period and time slot, assign or change vehicles, open the linked truck load, and resolve driver conflicts before the Transport Order is released.
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Review driver workload by planning date and time slot
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See default vehicle, assigned vehicle, linked Transport Order, and load percentage
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Assign or change the vehicle for a driver slot
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Open the current truck load or Transport Order directly from the driver view
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Detect driver double-booking, blocked scheduling, and driver availability issues before dispatch
Visual Scheduler — timeline-based planning
Use Visual Scheduler when your first question is: “How does the transportation plan look over time?”
View transportation demand and planned loads on a visual timeline, group work by route, carrier, driver, vehicle, consignee, shipper, or transport condition, and adjust timing as plans change.
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Plan by week or month on a visual timeline
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Group transportation work by operational dimension
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Drag to reschedule or regroup
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Use delivery schedules and time slots to reduce missed delivery windows
Best-fit candidates with clear reasons
Truck Load Management does more than list open requests. For the selected truck slot, Shipper TMS evaluates which Transport Requests can be assigned, which ones need planner review, and which ones are blocked.
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Eligible, warning, and blocked candidate status
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Projected load percentage before assignment
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Fit reasons such as same depot, same route, same zone, compatible compartment, or strong capacity fit
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Warning reasons for planner review, such as high utilization or missing driver assignment
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Blocking reasons for capacity limits, time-window mismatch, transport condition mismatch, conflicts, or unavailable resources
Dispatchers can make faster planning decisions because the system explains not only what fits, but why it fits.
Catch conflicts before dispatch
Shipper TMS helps planners release loads with confidence by checking the operational issues that often create last-minute dispatch problems: overloaded trucks, unavailable vehicles, missing drivers, driver double-booking, and driver-to-vehicle assignment conflicts.
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Review driver and vehicle conflicts before release
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See load percentage and conflict indicators in planning views
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Resolve assignment issues before they become dispatch problems
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Keep planning decisions connected to the final Transport Order
Dispatch with route, documents, and operational control
Turn planned loads into execution-ready Transport Orders that keep route, vehicle, driver, documents, loading sequence, and freight cost decisions in one place.
Transport Order & Route Control
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Assign carrier, vehicle, and driver
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Review route stops, loading sequence, and execution order before dispatch
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Keep transport documents and operational status linked to the Transport Order
Carrier Selection & Freight Cost
Compare carrier options for the same route, create charge lines from the selected carrier option, and allocate freight cost back to the original Business Central documents.
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Compare carriers for the same route
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Transfer the selected carrier option directly into charge lines.
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Allocate freight cost back to original orders
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Understand true delivery cost by weight, volume, distance, or units
Truck-aware routing with Azure Maps
Plan routes that reflect real truck and cargo restrictions — directly inside Business Central.
Use Google Maps or Azure Maps to calculate distance, transit time, and stop sequence. When truck restrictions matter, Azure Maps adds truck-aware routing based on vehicle height, gross vehicle weight, axle weight, hazardous cargo, and toll-avoidance preferences.
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Choose Google Maps or Azure Maps for route calculation
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Optimize stop sequence by distance or duration
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Use Azure Maps when truck and cargo restrictions matter
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Consider height, gross vehicle weight, axle weight, and hazardous cargo
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Avoid toll roads when required
Connect dispatch with real fleet visibility
Connect dispatched transport orders with telematics providers to link planning in Business Central with real fleet visibility.
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Geotab
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Samsara
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Webfleet​
Extend Shipper TMS as your operations grow
​Start with transport planning and add execution layers when your operation needs more control over logistic units, warehouse flows, or proof of delivery.
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Logistic Units — control pallets, boxes, and containers as real objects
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WMS — run receiving and warehouse workflows by logistic unit
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Proof of Delivery — confirm execution and delivery in the field
Capability Guide
Pricing
The Transportation Management System has a subscription-based price model.
The price and currency code depend on the region and country in which your company operates. More detailed information can be found on the solution page in AppSource.
Installation
Shipper TMS can be installed into your Business Central directly from AppSource by your system administrator.
Or directly from Business Central itself
