FREIGHT OPERATIONS
A digital logistics platform for full-truckload operators. Logisticians, carriers and drivers work in one system: every order goes out to the whole contractor base, carriers bid and sign digitally, documents generate themselves, and fuel runs on cards. Built by Inoqube and proven in production at a top-5 full-truckload carrier.
Runs on AWS or on your own servers. Integrates with your ERP, logistics marketplaces and verification services.
The logistician's order board. Sample data, illustrative.
WHY FIVE WAS THE CEILING
The operator wanted to double orders per logistician without hiring. Measured, the ceiling was five a day, and every reason was in the process.
Coordination by phone and email: unreachable contacts, spam, call you later. No parallel work on orders.
That is as many as one person can keep in play, so only a few carriers ever heard about a new order.
Logisticians defaulted to familiar carriers, and a small audience for each order kept prices high.
Contracts and transport documents moved by email and postal mail, with data retyped at every step.
Personal relationships between logisticians and carriers meant nobody could stand in for a colleague, and delays had a million unlogged reasons.
No systematic checks on carriers, vehicles or drivers, so poor fulfilment was a live risk on every order.
THE CORE IDEA
Before the platform, one logistician carried seven kinds of work per order and the carrier did one. The platform takes over collection, broadcasting, document generation and the ERP link; the carrier prepares their own paperwork; the logistician is left with the decision.
Before
After
THREE MODULES
The control room for orders: distribute them between your own fleet and contractors, with full tracking and documents.
A portal where contractors take part in the marketplace instead of waiting for a call.
Access control and verification for everyone on the platform.
ON THE ROAD
A cross-platform app built in Flutter, kept to the driver's own route and nothing else.
Fuel is a large share of transport cost, and most carriers run on simplified taxation. Issuing fuel cards instead of paying fuel inside carrier rates lets the operator reclaim VAT on fuel. The system makes that routine.
UNDER THE HOOD
The existing platform had grown feature by feature on legacy interfaces, with cookie authentication unsuited to mobile, queries running far slower than they should and a monolith that could only scale as a whole. We fixed the foundations alongside the new modules.
One set of rules for menus, navigation, tables and forms. Tables became the main work tool, with cell types per data format and a clear hierarchy, so a page shows far more without getting longer.
Cookie sessions replaced with tokens that work for the mobile app and microservices, remove CORS problems and allow authorisation policies finer than roles.
Nearly every query was running orders of magnitude slower than necessary. Optimised, with response times to match.
Domain services such as Trips and Notifications extracted from the monolith, so each scales on its own load.
Data split into personal and anonymised sets: personal data on compliant domestic infrastructure, the rest free to sit on international servers.
Logistics marketplaces, corporate ERPs, counterparty verification services and geo-distance tools, connected as part of the build.
MEASURED RESULTS
Reference deployment
A top-5 full-truckload carrier
47 branch offices across 8 regions, its own fleet, and framework agreements with federal retail chains and multinational manufacturers. Orders arrive irregularly by ERP, phone and email.
Measured against the original KPI: orders per logistician per day
| Indicator | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Logistics employees | 240 | 110 |
| Total monthly salary | €398,000 | €174,000 |
| Orders per day per logistician | 5 | 15 |
| Total orders per day | 1,200 | 1,650 |
| Cost per order | €70 | €31 |
HOW WE IMPLEMENT IT
Each stage starts with an agreed scope and target result, timed so your core operation and the people running it are never blocked.
We study your processes, tools and constraints and deliver an analytical note with the current workflow and KPIs, a technical specification for the platform configuration, and UI prototypes with justified user cases.
Three environments: development for engineering, test for your review, production for go-live. On AWS or your own corporate servers.
Configuration, refinements and integrations with your existing IT systems, tracked on a Gantt plan with named specialists and deadlines. You see task status in Jira throughout.
Training for every role, with feature walkthroughs and materials your future recruits can use.
Ongoing support for questions and issues, plus new modules or changes as your processes evolve.
Technology
C# / .NET CoreReactFlutterPostgreSQLODataAWS or private serversQUESTIONS
Both. The platform exists and runs in production: the three modules, the driver app and the fuel card system. Stage one of every implementation maps your workflow and configures the platform to it, and integrations with your systems are built as part of the rollout.
At the reference deployment they did, because the platform gives them something: orders they would never have heard about, digital signing instead of paperwork, payment schedules and claims in one place, and fuel cards. The carrier base grew after launch.
Yes. The reference deployment integrates with corporate ERPs, logistics marketplaces, counterparty verification services and geo-distance tools. Customers can submit orders from their own systems, and trip status flows back to them.
On AWS, or on your own corporate servers. Personal data can be kept on compliant domestic infrastructure while anonymised data sits elsewhere.
It depends on the integrations and the number of branches. The five stages run in sequence, and we agree the timetable for each up front so your operation is never blocked. Bring your order volumes and we will give you a plan.
Per implementation, scoped after the research stage. Configuration, integrations and support differ per operator, so there is no price list.
SEE IT ON YOUR OWN ORDER FLOW
Bring a week of orders and the carriers you work with. We show how the same orders would run on the platform, and what it would take to get there.
WHAT COMES WITH IT