Soloplan CarLo TMS
4 Reviews 5/5 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★A transportation management system and logsitics software for freight forwarders and shipping companies covering land, air, and sea.
Product Overview
CarLo by Soloplan is a transport management and logistics software that covers the processes involved in moving goods by road, air, and sea. This includes features for digital order entry, route planning, freight invoicing, fleet management, and business intelligence to analyze freight data. It consolidates all your operational freight data, including customers, employees, vehicles, and tariffs, into one platform.
SoloPlan Carlo TMS has built AI into several parts of the TMS. Document Intelligence extracts order data from inbound PDFs and emails, Planning Radar suggests dispatch assignments and searches for open loads, and CarLo Assistant builds report formulas from plain-text requests. Telematics, warehouse management, and crossdocking are also available as add-ons.
Pros
- Automated pricing calculations based on fixed rates, tariff tables, and internal pricing
- Text recognition(OCR) on scanned documents for quick order entries
- Real-time tracking and analtyics supported by visual dashboards
Cons
- Pricing details not provided by the developer
- The machine learning model is complex
- Implementation costs price out small operations
Target Market
Medium to large freight forwarders and transport companies that run their own fleet, subcontract to carriers, or do both. It’s also a solid fit for manufacturers and distributors that ship a high volume of their own goods.Not Recommended For
Small carriers and solo owner-operators running fewer than 10 trucks.Video Overview
Features
The CarLo transport management system offers a centralized platform for managing customer, vehicle, and employee data. Below are feature highlights of the Soloplan CarLo logistics platform.
Digital order management
- Create orders directly from PDF files or emails
- OCR (text reading) to quickly create orders from scanned documents
- Custom order templates that can be customized to each customer
- Open API supports importing orders from any data source
Transportation management
- Create visual routes of vehicles and orders using drag and drop
- Automated pricing calculations that support complex tariff tables and flat rate billing
- Telematics supports real-time communication with carriers (can be voice-controlled)
- Advanced resource planning to view employees/carriers availability with conditional formatting
- DATEV connection for German accounting workflows
Warehouse management
- Receive, transfer, and remove stock in one system
- Inventory control and order picking using scanners
- Locate stock locations across multiple warehouses or sub-locations
- Automatic pricing calculations for storage and warehousing services
Fleet management and telematics
- Vehicle records, maintenance scheduling, and cost tracking
- Telematics supports real-time communication with carriers (can be voice-controlled)
- Native driver app for iOS and Android for status updates, proof of delivery, and document capture
- Loading unit and equipment management
Air and sea freight
- Air and sea freight forwarding alongside road transport
- Crossdocking and hub handling
- Multi-country and multi-currency file management
Analytics and reporting
- Offers data visualization using diagrams, tables, or spreadsheets
- Create personalized dashboards
- Exports to Excel
CarLo Intelligence
- Document Intelligence extracts text, tables, and document structure from inbound orders and paperwork
- Planning Radar generates dispatch suggestions and runs automated load searches against open capacity
- CarLo Assistant answers usage questions and builds formulas and workflows from plain-text entry
- Transport Intelligence applies AI-supported suggestions across transport planning
Add-on Modules
Additionally, the CarLo ecosystem features multiple add-ons. These modules are licensed separately:
- CarLo inSTORE for warehouse management
- CarLo inMOTION for vehicle and fleet management
- CarLo inTOUCH for telematics and driver communication
- CarLo inTOUR for truck route planning with vehicle restrictions
- CarLo inHUB for crossdocking and yard operations
- CarLo inAIR & SEA for air and sea freight management
- CarLo exCHANGE for managing carriers and their status updates
- CarLo Cloud Services is a customer portal with self-service order entry and tracking
Soloplan CarLo Pricing
Soloplan does not publish pricing for CarLo. Costs depend on the number of add-on modules licensed beyond the core system, the user count, and whether the system runs in the cloud or on-premises. Maintenance and training are billed separately. Pricing is available by quote.
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- Logisitcs Service Provider
- 51-250 employees
Soloplan understands logistics
Soloplan is a business that clearly understands logistics. The system showed that it was in line with our business model and future plans. New staff in the business regularly comment how impressed they are by CarLo in comparison to systems they have used in previous employment.
Pros
Simple configuration and visibility to our own data reduced the time for reporting.
Cons
None at this time
- Transportation and Logistics
- 51-250 employees
The most compact and adjustable fleet management system we tried
Thanks to the simple and userfriendly operation of the programme, we can use CarLo inTOUCH very well at our company. Our drivers have confirmed that it has made their work easier and that they save a lot of time since the required documents are forwarded automatically
Pros
Planning and execution take place on one platform and are connected. Paperless solution goes hand in hand with our future visions.
Soloplan CarLo Review
CarLo helps us optimize the use of our fleet and allows us to keep a close eye on all parameters that influence revenues and costs. For further optimization, these parameters can be evaluated in a simple and targeted way.
CarLo makes it possible for us to plan transports efficiently
CarLo makes it possible for us to plan transports efficiently. We also like the software’s calculation workflow, the various pricing rules options and the Communication Server functions. Another great benefit is that the fields in the CarLo mask are adjustable: Thanks to the flexible configuration options, we have been able to precisely adapt CarLo to our special field of activity,
