Your AI reroutes around the late truck before the customer calls.
It matches proof-of-delivery photos to orders, answers 'where's my delivery' without a phone call, and flags a late route early enough to warn the customer. Open source TMS removes the per-vehicle rental.
What your AI would do in Logistics.
Concrete jobs an AI operating system set up around your business could take on, including the ones that catch a problem before it lands on your desk.
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Reads a proof-of-delivery photo and matches it to the right order automatically.
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Answers 'where's my delivery' questions from customers without a person picking up the phone.
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Watches routes and flags the ones running late early enough to warn the customer.
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Checks a driver's route against known road closures each morning and proposes the reroute before the truck leaves the yard.
of GDP
7.43% of GDP.Estimated cost of Transnet's rail and port failures in South Africa (2022 estimate)
What your AI does about it:
It watches your routes, flags the ones running late early enough to warn the customer, and answers 'where's my delivery' without a phone call.
Imagine it. Here it is.
See it work.
A short, fictional scenario. Watch the AI handle it end to end.
R 2.38M
Typical annual licence spend
Across 5 common logistics tools
R 2.14M
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The logistics stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical logistics firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Logistics stack
5 tools · R 2.38M/yr in licences
Replace
MercuryGate TMS
TMS / Logistics · R 1.86M per year
With
OpenTMS / Apache OFBiz
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 1.67M
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 2.38M
Estimated OSS hosting
R 238K
Annual savings
R 2.14M
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where logistics time and money leak
What we hear on every logistics discovery call.
Every delay handled after the customer already called
A late delivery usually surfaces when the customer phones in, not before. An AI watching the routes flags it early enough to warn them first.
TMS per-vehicle, per-month pricing
200 trucks at R400 a month each is R960k a year. Open source TMS handles similar fleet sizes on fixed infrastructure cost.
Warehouse management per-SKU caps
Vendor WMS tiers cap you at a SKU count, then charge hard for the next tier. Open source WMS has no ceiling.
How we handle the logistics edges
The sector-specific things we get right.
Now it's real.
Four things stay true, whatever we build for you.
Your hardware or ours
On your server, on ours, or on a machine in your office running an open model. Your call.
A person approves what matters
Payments, deletions and anything going to a client wait for a yes from you or someone you choose.
Every action logged
You can see what it read, what it did and why, for every task.
Built with POPIA in mind
We set it up the way we set up any system that handles personal information, with the same care our compliance work gets.
Questions people ask
Does the AI change a driver's route without telling anyone?
No, it proposes the reorder and a dispatcher approves it. The driver's app only updates after that.
How does this help with POPIA for driver and customer data?
Self-hosted keeps driver ID and customer delivery addresses on SA infrastructure, not a foreign fleet-tracking vendor.
What happens if the whole WMS goes down during peak dispatch?
Self-hosted gives you a restore point and a runbook you control, not a support ticket queue during your busiest hour.
Can it integrate with SARS customs filing for cross-border loads?
Yes, open source customs tools integrate with the same SARS eFiling APIs the expensive vendor tools use.