Your TMS is bigger than your margin.
Transport management systems, fleet tracking, warehouse management, and customs software form an expensive, locked-in stack. OpenTMS, OpenBoxes, Tracmo, and Odoo Inventory run warehouses and fleets at scale without per-vehicle or per-SKU fees.
Three pains specific to logistics.
TMS per-vehicle, per-month pricing
200 trucks at R400 per month each equals R960k a year. OpenTMS and Kuberdock handle similar fleet sizes on fixed infrastructure cost.
Warehouse management per-SKU caps
Vendor WMS tiers cap you at X SKUs, then charge aggressively for the next tier. Open source WMS has no SKU ceiling.
Customs and cross-border paperwork tools
Specialised shipping software for SARS customs filings at enterprise pricing. Open source alternatives exist and integrate with the same SARS eFiling APIs.
Your typical stack
About R2 375 400 a year.
Logistics firms typically run this stack. Click any tool to see the open source replacement and the migration plan.
What we do for logistics
Savings is just the start.
Logisticsfirms also come to us for the security, compliance, and build work that goes with the stack swap. Here's what that usually looks like.
The things your sector cares about.
POPIA for driver and customer data
Driver ID, vehicle telemetry, customer delivery addresses. Self-hosted keeps it on SA infrastructure.
OT security on connected vehicles
Modern fleet tracking opens an attack surface. We harden telematics and segregate from back-office systems.
Disaster recovery for time-critical ops
A 4-hour WMS outage during peak dispatch is a disaster. Self-hosted gives you the restore point and runbook you actually control.
Free audit. No pitch.
A 30-minute call. We look at your current stack, your headcount, your compliance posture. You get a written assessment with exact Rand numbers. You decide from there.