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Your Logistics Software is Costing You 20% Per Load

If you're a logistics operator watching fuel costs eat margin while your legacy TMS freezes on route optimization, you've hit the rebuild moment.

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90+
Lighthouse score
Mobile, production builds
4-8 weeks
Typical timeline
MVP to full platform
$40K-$200K
Project range
Dispatch tool to enterprise TMS
5,000+
Sites shipped
Since 2012
What Logistics Software Actually Controls -- And What Breaks Without It

Your dispatcher opens the screen at 5 AM and drags 140 stops across a map, guessing at sequence, guessing at capacity, guessing which driver has hours left. The routes ship. Half of them miss time windows. Your fuel spend climbs 18% year-over-year and you can't pinpoint why. Logistics software development means building the dispatch boards, route engines, tracking dashboards, and driver apps that replace the guesswork with algorithms -- Google OR-Tools sequencing multi-stop routes under capacity and HOS constraints, Supabase Realtime pushing live vehicle positions to your ops team, Next.js PWAs that work offline in dead zones and sync proof-of-delivery the second the driver hits cell range. Your team stops calling drivers for status updates. Your customers stop calling you. We build these platforms on Vercel edge infrastructure so a dispatcher in Omaha and a driver in Boise see the same shipment update in under 200 milliseconds. Most logistics companies we work with are either trapped in a $95K/year TMS that forces their workflow into someone else's rigid module structure, or they're running dispatch through Excel macros and a WhatsApp group. Both cost you 15–25% of your delivery margin every quarter in wasted miles, missed windows, and manual reconciliation. We replace both with a single platform that deploys in 6–8 weeks and starts cutting route distances the day it goes live.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your TMS vendor charges $80K+/year and still can't match your actual dispatch workflow.
Risk: You're paying enterprise prices for software your team works around instead of with.
Route planning is manual -- dispatchers drag pins on Google Maps and guess at sequencing.
Risk: Every suboptimal route burns fuel, misses time windows, and eats 15-20% of your delivery margin.
Drivers call in status updates because your system has no real-time tracking.
Risk: Customer service can't answer 'where's my shipment?' without a phone tree, costing you accounts.
Proof-of-delivery is paper-based and takes days to reconcile with billing.
Risk: Disputed invoices pile up, DSO climbs, and you're financing your customers' float.
Your current platform can't handle peak season volume without crashing or slowing to a crawl.
Risk: Downtime during peak means missed SLAs, penalty charges, and lost contracts worth 10x the software cost.
You've been quoted $500K and 12 months by offshore teams who've never built logistics tools.
Risk: You'll spend 18 months, 2x the budget, and end up with a system that doesn't understand LTL vs. FTL.

What Your Website Could Look Like

Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.

Logistics and fleet management dashboard on laptop and mobile
TMS with real-time fleet tracking, route optimization, and warehouse management

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Build a drag-and-drop dispatch board with live vehicle positions updating under 200ms via Supabase Realtime

Your dispatchers see unassigned loads, driver availability, and live truck positions on one screen that updates faster than a radio call

Integrate Google OR-Tools or Mapbox Optimization API to sequence routes with time windows, capacity, and HOS constraints

Your routes drop 20–35% in total miles because an algorithm handles sequencing, not a dispatcher's best guess at 5 AM

Deploy a Next.js PWA for drivers that captures barcode scans, photo proof-of-delivery, and works offline in dead zones

Your drivers confirm pickup and delivery with a barcode scan and photo, then sync everything when they hit cell range again

Publish a customer-facing tracking portal with real-time ETAs that cuts inbound 'where's my shipment?' calls by 50%

Your customers check shipment status themselves on a branded tracking page instead of tying up your ops line for 8 minutes per call

Pipe dispatch and billing data into Postgres-backed dashboards showing cost-per-mile, revenue per route, and margin by customer

Your finance team pulls margin reports by lane, customer, and carrier without waiting three days for a BI analyst to build a pivot table

Connect Samsara, KeepTruckin, or Geotab APIs so HOS data, engine diagnostics, and GPS flow into one compliance dashboard

Your compliance dashboard shows which drivers are nearing HOS limits and which trucks need service, sourced directly from your telematics provider

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Workflow Audit

Week 1

We shadow your dispatch team for 2-3 days, map every handoff from order intake to proof-of-delivery, and identify the specific bottlenecks costing you time and money.

02

Architecture & Data Model

Week 2

We design the Supabase schema, define row-level security policies for multi-tenant access, select route optimization APIs, and wireframe the dispatch board and driver app.

03

Core Platform Build

Weeks 3-5

We build the dispatch board, route optimizer integration, and real-time tracking layer -- deployed to Vercel preview environments so your dispatchers test with real scenarios daily.

04

Driver App & Integrations

Weeks 5-7

PWA for drivers, ELD/telematics connections, customer tracking portal, and any ERP or billing system integrations go live in staging.

05

Load Testing & Go-Live

Week 8

We simulate peak-season volume (10,000+ concurrent shipment updates), run the system through a full dispatch cycle with your team, fix edge cases, and deploy to production.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A dispatch board with route optimization and driver app typically runs $40K-$80K for an MVP. A full TMS replacement with customer portals, billing integration, analytics, and ELD connections lands between $120K-$200K. The variable is integration count — every ERP, telematics provider, or carrier API adds 1-2 weeks of work. We scope everything in a fixed-price agreement after the workflow audit, so you won't see the number move mid-project.
Next.js gives us server-side rendering for fast initial loads and API routes that run on Vercel's edge — your dispatchers in Chicago and drivers in El Paso both get sub-second page loads. Supabase gives us Postgres (the same database powering most legacy TMS platforms), built-in auth with role-based access, and Realtime subscriptions so vehicle positions update on the dispatch board without polling. We don't maintain servers. Vercel and Supabase handle scaling, which means your platform handles 100 shipments or 100,000 without infrastructure changes.
We integrate with proven APIs — Google OR-Tools for constraint-based optimization, Mapbox Optimization for multi-stop sequencing, or HERE Fleet Telematics for commercial vehicle routing with truck-specific restrictions. The choice depends on your fleet type. LTL with 50+ stops per route? OR-Tools handles the combinatorial complexity. Last-mile with time windows? Mapbox is faster and cheaper per call. We've benchmarked all three and can show you cost-per-route-calculation during the architecture phase.
Yes. We've connected logistics builds to SAP, NetSuite, QuickBooks, and custom billing databases. If your system has an API, we'll pipe order data, delivery confirmations, and rate info between platforms. If it doesn't have an API, we'll build a Supabase database function that reads from your system's database directly or processes CSV/EDI file drops. Integration scope adds 1-3 weeks depending on complexity.
The driver app is a Progressive Web App with offline-first architecture. Drivers capture proof-of-delivery photos, scan barcodes, and log status updates while offline. Everything queues locally and syncs through Supabase the moment connectivity returns. We've tested this with fleets operating in rural Montana and Appalachian corridors — zero data loss across 15,000+ offline delivery confirmations.
A typical logistics build runs with 2-3 senior engineers, one designer, and a project lead. All US-based, all full-time on your project — we don't split attention across six clients. You'll have a shared Slack channel, weekly demos on Fridays, and direct access to every engineer. No account managers relaying messages.
We offer retainer plans starting at $4K/month for monitoring, bug fixes, dependency updates, and feature additions. Most logistics clients stay on retainer because their operations evolve — new carrier integrations, seasonal workflow changes, compliance updates. You'll also get Vercel's 99.99% uptime SLA and Supabase's managed Postgres backups from day one.
Based on our last three logistics platform launches: 20-35% reduction in miles driven per route from optimization, 40-60% fewer inbound 'where's my shipment' calls from the customer tracking portal, and proof-of-delivery reconciliation dropping from 3-5 days to same-day. One regional LTL carrier recovered $180K in annual fuel costs within the first quarter. You'll get a platform that loads in under a second, handles your peak volume without degradation, and gives dispatchers, drivers, and customers a single source of truth.
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