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Logistics platform: systems that optimize e-commerce freight

By Tiago Moraes 3 minutes reading
Logistics platform: systems that optimize e-commerce freight
A logistics platform is software that allows you to optimize freight. Image: @vector4stock
A logistics platform is a with which allows you to optimize shipping. Image: @vector4stock

In e-commerce, a logistics platform is the name given to any software that enables the optimization of inventory management, warehousing, distribution, and shipping of products. Therefore, this type of system acts as an organizing agent, often streamlining work processes, reducing costs, and improving the customer experience with your brand.

LOGISTICS PLATFORM: 5 SOFTWARE FOR YOU TO OPTIMIZE YOUR E-COMMERCE SHIPPING

If you're looking for a logistics platform for your e-commerce business, then take a look at the list below. Here I highlight 5 types of software and solutions that can help you optimize shipping for your online store:

  • Transportation Management System (TMS): transport management system that allows you to control vehicle fleets, track loads, calculate freight costs and much more. Example: TMS Hyvecloud;
  • Warehouse Management System (WMS): warehouse management system useful for managing various activities such as receipt flows, storage, separation, dispatch and delivery of goods, for example. Example: Senior WMS;
  • Tracking: with delivery management system that makes it possible to route, track and communicate in real time the progress of deliveries to customers of virtual stores like yours. Example: VTEX Tracking;
  • Yard Management System (YMS): yard management system, this type of logistics platform is ideal for controlling the movement of delivery vehicles in your company. Example: TOTVS YMS.
  • Order Management System: order management system that is not a logistics platform, but that often allows unifying online and physical store stocks, thus creating a infinite shelf. Example: VTEX WHO.

Furthermore, there are other very interesting technologies on the market to improve shipping. VTEX Shipping Network , for example, connects online retailers like you with carriers. This allows you to always offer the best delivery services to your customers at the lowest cost.

HOW TO IMPLEMENT?

To integrate a logistics platform with your e-commerce platform, seek support from an e-commerce agency. e-Plus Agency , for example, serves e-commerce companies like yours in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and other countries. To discuss your project, click the button below and start a conversation with our team via our messaging app:

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