Logistics Module

It optimizes shipment grouping and loading; for complex route optimization it integrates with specialized TMS partners.

Yes, via automatic notifications and a tracking view per order.

WMS manages the warehouse; Logistics manages what leaves it. Together they close the loop from production to customer.

It depends entirely on what each carrier accepts, and that is the part buyers underestimate. A large forwarder usually takes a structured message or an API call and returns tracking references; a regional haulier often takes a mailed PDF manifest and sends nothing back. Each connection is scoped separately, and anything a carrier cannot already receive is an integration project in its own right.

Pack sizes, pallet configuration, gross weights and the truck or container types you actually hire. Grouping orders is arithmetic on those numbers, so if a pallet quantity is wrong in the item master the plan builds a load that will not fit on the vehicle. You also need delivery calendars and customer receiving windows, otherwise the system promises dates that a goods-in door will refuse.

It adds a scan per pallet or handling unit at the truck, and for a full-pallet load that is seconds. Mixed and hand-loaded shipments are where the time shows, because every carton becomes a confirmation. It removes the class of error where a pallet goes on the wrong truck, but not a pallet built or labelled wrong at packing, which is a check that belongs earlier. Time the sequence on your slowest load, with the loaders who will do it, before you agree the process.

Partly. You still get everything that happened in your plant: shipment created, loading complete, departed the gate, plus the delivery documents. That is a timestamped record of when the shipment was built, loaded and left the gate, but it is not a position on the road. Anything after the gate depends on the carrier returning events, so the coverage of your tracking view is decided by which carriers you integrate. The software does not limit it.

The ERP normally keeps the customer order and the confirmed date, and Logistics works out whether that date can be met with the stock, the production plan and the transit time in front of it. If the two disagree, someone has to decide which one the customer is told. That is a process decision, and it usually lands with whoever owns order fulfilment.

It produces the shipping paperwork from data you already hold: delivery notes, packing lists and labels. The commercial invoice comes from whichever system owns your pricing, which is normally the ERP. It does not decide your commodity codes, origin or incoterms, and it does not file a declaration with an authority, so a broker stays in the loop unless you already file your own declarations.

The loading list is confirmed against what physically went on the vehicle, so the shipment closes with the quantities loaded and the remainder stays open for a later shipment. The delivery note is generated from the loaded quantities rather than the plan, which is what stops the paperwork disagreeing with the pallets. Whether the shortfall triggers a backorder or a rescheduled load depends on the rules you agree with sales.