Logistics software for shippers and forwarding companies offering air, land, and sea transportation.

Product Overview

CarLo by Soloplan is a logistics software that can cover all logistics processes and everything needed for the efficient transport of goods. This includes digital order entry, route planning, freight invoicing, fleet management, and business intelligence to analyze freight data.

The logistics software consolidates all information across a logistics operation, including customer data, employee data, vehicles, and tariffs, into a single platform. CarLo includes telematics, warehouse management, and trip planning along with automated toll and pricing calculations.

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 analytics
  • 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-sized logistic companies involved in air and sea freight, including freight forwarders, logistics operations, import/export companies, shipping companies, and customs brokers. CarLo can support multi-country and multi-currency operations and has created the platform to support all road, air, and sea transportation modes.

Manufacturing and distribution businesses seeking to improve internal shipping and warehouse operations will find value in the CarLo logistics platform.

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Features

The logistics software offers a central system for managing customers, vehicles, and employee data in one location. Its core features include a central record database, digital order management, transportation management, price calculations, warehouse management, and analytics/reporting. Below are 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

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

Analytics and reporting

  • Offers data visualization using diagrams, tables, or spreadsheets
  • Create personalized dashboards
  • Exports to Excel

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User Reviews of Soloplan CarLo

Bernhard Jung
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Soloplan CarLo Review

September 26th, 2019 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

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.

Christian Adam
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

CarLo makes it possible for us to plan transports efficiently

September 26th, 2019 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

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,