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Transporeon at a glance

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Transporeon GmbH
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Data hosting
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Transporeon 1.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Transporeon is a cloud-based transportation management platform from Transporeon GmbH of Ulm, a Trimble company since 2023, and the scores track that freight focus. how scores are made
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Vendor pages captured 26 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 28 Oct 2026. all sources

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The panel's verdict

Transporeon is a cloud-based transportation management platform from Transporeon GmbH of Ulm, a Trimble company since 2023, and the scores track that freight focus. Freight and transport scored 7-9: tendering across 210,000+ carriers, eCMR with eIDAS signatures, telematics visibility covering more than 95% of the market, freight audit and 30 million booked time slots per year, with no CO2 per shipment and no route and load planning cited at the low end. Integration and automation scored 6 — 6 — on ERP interfaces for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and proprietary systems. The warehouse floor scores low: inventory control 0-1 and warehouse operations 0-2, with dock and yard time-slot booking the nearest capability; shipping and returns scored 1-3, the pages documenting freight, not parcels. Pricing transparency scored 1 — 1 — the only pricing statement being 'flexible, usage-based pricing', with savings of 'up to €13 per consignment note'. Sovereignty scored 3-4: a German-registered vendor, but the US parent's privacy notice states storage on servers located worldwide. Score ranges are narrow, at most two points in any criterion.

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Speaks for it

  • Freight tendering across a network of 210,000+ carriers, from spot requests to contracted tenders for any mode
  • Digital transport documents — eCMR, Carta de Porte / DCA and eDelivery Note — in one flow with eIDAS advanced electronic signatures
  • ERP interfaces for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and proprietary systems with onboarding, support and training included
  • Visibility covering more than 95% of the telematics market through named partners, with predictive ETAs
  • Dock and yard time-slot booking to stop trucks queuing, with 30 million booked time slots per year

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Held against it

  • Inventory control scored 0-1; we found no public information on stock keeping, bin locations, batches or reorder points
  • Shipping and returns scored 1-3; we found no public information on parcel label creation, customs paperwork for parcels or a returns portal
  • Pricing transparency scored 1, with 'flexible, usage-based pricing' the only statement and an annual cost not computable from public pages
  • The parent's privacy notice states personal information sits on Trimble and third-party servers located worldwide, and we found no public information naming the service's subprocessors
  • We found no public information on a documented public API, webhooks or an export of shipment history at contract end

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Best for

  • You tender road freight — spot and contracted, any mode — and want a connected marketplace of 210,000+ carriers
  • You run SAP, Oracle or Microsoft ERP and want freight execution, visibility and dock scheduling connected to it, with onboarding and training included
  • You are digitising transport documents ahead of the October 2026 regulation and need eCMR with eIDAS signatures and eFTI-ready QR sharing
  • You need to stop trucks queuing at your docks with time-slot booking across a large carrier base

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Avoid if

  • You need stock keeping, bin locations, batches or reorder points — the captured pages describe a transportation platform, not a stock ledger
  • Your daily operation is parcel labels, customs paperwork for parcels and a customer-facing returns portal
  • You must estimate an annual cost from published prices before talking to sales
  • Your data-protection review requires a named subprocessor list or a stated EU hosting commitment

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The scores

Panel median The median of the judges’ scores per criterion. Each label opens its reasoning below.

Inventory & stock control

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Whether the stock figure can be trusted: every goods receipt, sale, transfer, return and correction booked as a movement, stock per location and channel, batches, serial numbers and best-before dates where the goods need them, reorder points and purchase orders, and stock synchronised to every sales channel so nothing is oversold.

0 — No stock keeping; quantities live in the shop or in a spreadsheet.

3 — A stock number per product that can be edited by hand, with no movement history, no locations and no link to purchasing.

5 — Stock per product and warehouse updated by orders and goods receipts, synchronised to the connected sales channels, with low-stock alerts and purchase orders to suppliers.

8 — Every movement booked with a reason and a user, stock per bin location, batches, serial numbers and expiry dates tracked, stocktaking (cycle or annual) supported, bundles and kits resolved to components, and reorder suggestions from sales history.

10 — The stock record is an audit-proof ledger: complete movement history exportable, inventory valuation method stated (FIFO, average cost), multi-warehouse and multi-entity stock with transfers in transit, demand forecasting documented, and the stock figure reconciled across every channel in near real time.

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The E-Commerce Operations Lead

The captured pages position this as a transportation management platform — autonomous dealmaking, execution and visibility, dock and yard management and freight audit — and we found no public information on stock keeping: no movement history, bin locations, batches, reorder points or stock synchronised to sales channels. For a shop running three sales channels, nothing here keeps the stock figure honest on every channel. 1 2

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The Warehouse Manager

The captured pages describe a transportation management platform — freight tendering, execution and digital transport documents — rather than stock keeping. The nearest thing is the electronic delivery note, which turns each goods handover into a real-time record with item-level discrepancies; we found no public information on a stock ledger, bin locations, batches and best-before dates, reorder points or purchase orders. 2 9

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The Transport Planner not rated — no public information

I found no public information on stock keeping: the captured pages describe freight tendering, transport documents and dock scheduling, not stock. The closest item is item-level discrepancy capture on the digital delivery note, which is a handover record, not a stock ledger. 2 9

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The Fulfilment Provider

The captured pages present a transportation management system whose modules are autonomous dealmaking, execution and visibility, dock and yard management and freight audit, and we found no public information on stock keeping, bin locations, batches, serial numbers or stock synchronised to sales channels. The nearest record is the digital delivery note, an electronic proof of delivery logging item-level discrepancies at handover — a transport goods-receipt record, not a stock ledger I could trust for twenty-two clients' stock. 1 2 9

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The IT & Integration Lead

The captured pages describe a transportation management platform, and we found no public information on stock keeping, bin locations, batches, serial numbers or reorder points. The only adjacent fact is the digital delivery note, which records item-level discrepancies at handover and aligns delivered goods with invoices — a goods-receipt record, not a stock ledger. 2 9

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The Skeptic

Every captured page describes a transportation management system — freight tendering, transport execution and dock scheduling — and stock keeping never appears among the product descriptions. We found no public information on stock movements, locations, batches, serial numbers, reorder points or synchronisation to sales channels. 1 2

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Warehouse operations: receiving, picking & packing

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How this is scored

The physical work in the warehouse: goods receipt against a purchase order, putaway to bin locations, picking strategies (single order, batch, wave, zone), scanner and mobile app guidance, packing with checks, and the performance figures a warehouse lead runs the shift by.

0 — No warehouse process support; staff print the order and walk.

3 — A pick list or packing slip printed per order, with no bin locations, no scanning and no check that the right item went into the box.

5 — Bin locations, goods receipt against purchase orders, pick lists sorted by route, and barcode scanning on a phone or scanner to confirm picks and packs.

8 — Several picking strategies (batch, wave, multi-order trolley), putaway suggestions, packing with weight or scan verification, handheld scanner support named, and pick, pack and error rates reported per user and shift.

10 — A full WMS documented end to end: slotting and replenishment, cross-docking, multi-client operation for 3PLs with client billing, integration with automation (conveyors, pick-to-light, AutoStore or similar) named, and offline-tolerant mobile apps with an audit trail of every scan.

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The E-Commerce Operations Lead

The warehouse-adjacent material is about trucks at the gate — dock and yard time slot management to stop trucks queuing — plus a digital proof of delivery recording damage photos, seal numbers and quantity discrepancies at handover. We found no public information on goods receipt against purchase orders, putaway, bin locations, picking routes or packing checks, so there is nothing here for the shift inside the four walls. 2 9

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The Warehouse Manager

Dock and yard management with time slot booking is documented — a module to stop trucks queuing in front of the warehouse, thirty million booked time slots a year, and a link between assigned transports and time slot management — which genuinely helps my inbound schedule. For the floor itself, we found no public information on goods receipt against a purchase order, bin locations, scanner-guided picks, or pick and error rates per shift. 2 6 9

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The Transport Planner

Dock and yard management is documented — stopping trucks queuing at the warehouse with 30 million booked time slots a year — which helps the ramp, but that is the limit. The captured pages show no goods receipt against purchase orders, no putaway, no bin locations and no picking or packing. 2 6

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The Fulfilment Provider

We found no public information on picking, putaway or packing anywhere in the product scope; the module list covers freight procurement, execution, dock and yard management and audit. What is documented on the physical side is the yard: stopping trucks queuing in front of the warehouse with 30 million booked time slots a year, plus a sign-on-glass delivery confirmation — that helps my dock, but says nothing about the pick face. 2 8 9

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The IT & Integration Lead

Dock and yard management stops trucks queuing in front of the warehouse — 30 million booked time slots per year — but this is the yard, not the warehouse: we found no public information on goods receipt against purchase orders, putaway, bin locations, picking strategies, scanning or packing checks. 2

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The Skeptic

The nearest thing to warehouse work on these pages is stopping trucks queuing at the dock — time slot booking — plus a digital goods-handover record with item-level discrepancies, damage photos and sign-on-glass at the door. We found no public information on bin locations, putaway, picking strategies or scanner-guided packing inside the warehouse. 2 8 9

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Multi-carrier shipping & returns

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Getting parcels out and back: carriers connected, label creation in bulk, rules that pick the carrier and service, customs documents for non-EU destinations, tracking and the notifications the recipient sees, a returns portal, and whether the customer uses its own carrier contracts or buys labels through the vendor.

0 — No shipping features; labels come from each carrier's own portal.

3 — Labels for one or two carriers created one by one, with no rules, no tracking for the recipient and no returns handling.

5 — Several carriers connected with bulk label printing, a choice between own carrier contracts and vendor rates, tracking numbers written back to the shop, and a basic returns label flow.

8 — Shipping rules by weight, destination, value and channel choose carrier and service automatically, customs documents (CN22/CN23, commercial invoice, EORI, HS codes) generated, branded tracking pages and notifications, a self-service returns portal with reasons, and pickup points supported.

10 — Shipping runs without a person: rate comparison across carriers at label time, own contracts for every connected carrier, delivery promise and checkout options from live carrier data, returns with refund or exchange triggered on receipt, and carrier performance and cost reported per lane.

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The E-Commerce Operations Lead

What is documented is a freight carrier network — 210,000+ carriers, spot bidding on freight transports, predictive ETAs and an e-mail to the goods recipient from the transport document. We found no public information on parcel label printing, batch labels, customs papers for non-EU parcels, branded recipient tracking or a returns portal, which is the work my shop runs on every day. 2 7 8

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The Warehouse Manager

The carrier network is real — 210,000-plus carriers, spot bidding, predictive ETAs, and 'sign on glass' confirmation with an e-mail to the goods recipient — but this is road freight, not parcels. We found no public information on label printing, rules that choose a parcel service, customs paperwork for parcels, pickup points or a returns portal. 2 7 8

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The Transport Planner

This is a freight platform, not a parcel tool: the pages describe carrier connectivity and digital transport documents, with sign-on-glass and e-mail to the goods recipient as the recipient-facing pieces. No parcel label printing, customs documents, branded tracking pages or returns portal appear in the captures. 6 7 8

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The Fulfilment Provider

This is a freight network rather than a parcel desk: 210,000-plus carriers connected for tendering, spot bidding and execution, with real-time visibility and predictive ETAs through a single execution hub. We found no public information on parcel label creation, shipping rules by weight or destination, customs paperwork for parcels, recipient-facing tracking pages or a returns portal, so my daily parcel operation could not run on the documented capability. 2 6 7

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The IT & Integration Lead

This is freight, not parcel shipping: the pages document carrier connectivity, transport documents (eCMR, Carta de Porte / DCA, eDelivery Note) and an e-mail to the goods recipient, but we found no public information on parcel label creation, shipping rules, customs forms for parcels or a returns portal. 2 8 9

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The Skeptic

The carrier network is huge — 210,000+ carriers — but the pages document bidding on spot transports and digital documents at handover, which is freight tendering rather than parcel label software. We found no public information on parcel label creation, customs paperwork for non-EU destinations, recipient-facing tracking notifications or a returns portal. 2 6

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Freight & transport management

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How this is scored

Moving goods beyond parcels: pallet, groupage, full and part truckload, sea and air freight booked with carriers or forwarders, quotes and tenders compared, transport orders and documents (CMR, eCMR, delivery notes), shipment tracking across modes, freight cost audit, and CO2 emissions reported per shipment.

0 — No freight features; pallets and trucks are booked by phone and e-mail.

3 — A form to send a booking request to one forwarder, or freight rates shown without booking, tracking or documents.

5 — Pallet and groupage shipments booked with several carriers from one place, prices compared, transport documents generated, and the shipment status tracked.

8 — Spot quotes and tenders sent to many carriers with responses compared, the customer's own freight agreements and rate tables stored, eCMR or digital delivery notes, multi-modal tracking, freight invoices checked against the agreed price, and CO2 per shipment reported to a named standard (GLEC, ISO 14083).

10 — Transport management run in the system: route and load planning, dock and yard slot booking, carrier scorecards, freight cost allocated to orders and cost centres, and a carrier network that connects by API or EDI rather than by e-mail.

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The E-Commerce Operations Lead

This is the home ground: sourcing events of any size for any mode with spot bidding and peer benchmarking, contracted freight procurement, autonomous procurement and quotation, eCMR with Spanish Carta de Porte and eDelivery Note in one flow with eIDAS signatures and eFTI readiness, multi-modal visibility across more than 95% of the telematics market, freight audit, and 30 million booked dock time slots per year. We found no public information on CO2 per shipment or carrier scorecards, which is what keeps it shy of a perfect mark. 1 2 3 9 11

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The Warehouse Manager

This is their home ground: sourcing events of any size for any mode from spot requests to contracted tenders, with real-time market insights and peer benchmarking; eCMR, Carta de Porte / DCA and the digital delivery note compliant with UN/CEFACT and the IRU CMR template; telematics visibility covering more than 95% of the market; automated freight audit of spend for all modes; and dock and yard slot booking. We found no public information on CO2 per shipment to a named standard or on route and load planning, which keeps this a step from the top. 2 3 7 9 11

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The Transport Planner

Spot and contracted tenders for any mode with responses compared, freight audit automating billing and giving visibility into freight spend for all modes, eCMR and eDelivery Note built on the IRU 2007 model with eIDAS advanced signatures, multi-modal visibility across a 210,000-carrier network, even dock time slots — this is exactly the world I book pallets in. I hold it one notch below the top band because the captures show no CO2 figure per shipment and no explicit statement that my agreed rate tables are stored to check invoices against. 2 3 6 7 8 9

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The Fulfilment Provider

This is the vendor's home ground, documented deeply: a freight marketplace covering contracted, seasonal, open and closed spot tenders for any mode with responses compared and peer benchmarking, autonomous procurement and AI-powered quoting, multi-modal transport operations, eCMR built on the IRU 2007 model with eIDAS advanced signatures and a blockchain audit trail, automated freight audit and billing visibility, and dock and yard slot booking across a network of 210,000-plus carriers connected digitally rather than by e-mail. We found no public information on CO2 emissions per shipment to a named standard, carrier scorecards or route and load planning, which is what keeps it from the very top. 2 3 7 8 9

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The IT & Integration Lead

Tendering runs deep here: spot requests and tenders of any size for any mode across a marketplace of 210,000+ carriers, market intelligence with peer benchmarking, eCMR and digital delivery notes with eIDAS signatures, multi-modal visibility over telematics partners covering 95% of the market, freight audit of the spend, and dock and yard slot booking. What the pages do not document is CO2 per shipment to a named standard, carrier scorecards, or freight cost allocated to orders and cost centres. 2 3 8 9 11

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The Skeptic

Tendering with responses compared for any mode at any time, autonomous AI procurement and quotation, eCMR and digital delivery notes with eIDAS signatures and eFTI-ready QR sharing, predictive ETAs across a telematics network covering 95% of the market, freight audit for all modes and 30 million dock time slots a year — transport management genuinely run in the system, not by e-mail. We found no public information on CO2 per shipment, carrier scorecards, or freight cost allocated to orders and cost centres, which keeps it a notch below the top. 2 3 7 9 11

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Integrations, automation & exit

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How the tool fits the business around it: maintained connectors to shop systems, marketplaces, ERP and accounting (DATEV and the like), a documented API and webhooks, EDI for retail and logistics partners, rules that automate order routing and status updates, and a documented export of orders, stock and shipment history when the customer leaves.

0 — No integrations; orders are typed in or uploaded by hand.

3 — A CSV import and export and one or two shop connectors, with no API and no automation.

5 — Connectors to the main shop systems and marketplaces, a public API with documentation, and rules for common automations (order status, carrier choice, notifications).

8 — A broad connector list with ERP and accounting exports, webhooks, EDI (EDIFACT or similar) supported or offered through a named partner, rule engines for order routing across warehouses, and the API rate limits and versioning documented.

10 — The tool is an open part of the stack: every object readable and writable by API, a developer sandbox, connectors maintained by the vendor with a stated support policy, and a complete data export (orders, stock movements, shipments, documents) in open formats documented for the end of the contract.

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The E-Commerce Operations Lead

The connector story is deep on the freight side: ERP interfaces for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and proprietary systems, an Oracle Gold Partner OTM connection, ready-to-use carrier integrations, telematics partners covering more than 95% of the market, with onboarding, support and training included. We found no public information on shop system or marketplace connectors, public API documentation with rate limits, or a documented export of orders, stock and shipment history at the end of the contract, so I cannot see how it would sit next to my shop and marketplaces. 6 10 11

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The Warehouse Manager

ERP interfaces for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and proprietary systems — with onboarding, support and training included — plus ready-to-use carrier integrations with standardised real-time data exchange, an Oracle OTM connection as a Gold Partner, and a named telematics partner list from Webfleet Solutions to Scania with one-click setup. We found no public information on a documented public API, webhooks, EDI, or a complete export of data when the contract ends. 2 6 10 11

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The Transport Planner

ERP interfaces for SAP, Oracle (a Gold Partner connection), Microsoft and proprietary systems with onboarding and training included, telematics partners covering more than 95% of the market with names given, plus ready-made carrier integration solutions and a programme for TMS providers. The captures show no documented public API with rate limits and versioning, no webhooks, and no export of my data when the contract ends. 6 10 11

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The Fulfilment Provider

The documented connections run to the logistics stack, not the commerce stack: ERP interfaces for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and proprietary systems with onboarding, support and training included, carrier integration with standardized data and real-time exchange activated once, and telematics coverage claimed at more than 95 percent of the market with named partners. AI agents and agentic workflows automate recurring transport work, but we found no public information on shop system or marketplace connectors, a documented public API with rate limits and versioning, webhooks, EDI, or an export of my data when the contract ends — the exit question matters to a 3PL holding client records. 6 7 10 11

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The IT & Integration Lead

The ERP interfaces connect SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and proprietary systems to the logistics network with onboarding, support and training included, telematics partners are named with simplified one-click setup, and there is a programme for TMS vendors. But we found no public information on a documented API, webhooks, rate limits and versioning, EDIFACT exchange, or an end-of-contract export of shipment history — exactly what I check before letting anything near my ERP. 6 10 11

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The Skeptic

Real, named integrations exist: ERP interfaces to SAP, Oracle and Microsoft with onboarding, support and training included, ready-to-use carrier integration solutions, and a partner list from Webfleet to Scania covering most of the telematics market. But it reads like a partner wall; we found no public information on a documented public API, webhooks, EDI, API rate limits and versioning, or a documented export of orders and shipment history when the contract ends. 6 10 11

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European sovereignty panel opinion

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How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where order, customer and shipment data are hosted, and who the subprocessors are (hosting, carriers' label APIs, payment, e-mail, analytics). Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; recipient addresses flow to every connected carrier, so the processing chain counts, not only the server.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and no privacy policy that covers the service.

3 — A privacy policy exists, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the processors behind the service are not named.

5 — EU hosting stated and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain (support, e-mail, analytics, payment) run through non-EU providers without a stated safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessors listed with locations, a data processing agreement offered for the recipient and customer data, and the role of carriers (as independent controllers or processors) explained.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor, data export and deletion documented, and a security certification (ISO 27001, SOC 2 or BSI C5) published rather than implied.

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The E-Commerce Operations Lead

The operating company is Transporeon GmbH in Ulm with a German registration, EEA customers contract with Trimble Europe B.V., and an ISO/IEC 27001 certification is published. But the service sits under the US parent Trimble, whose privacy notice governs it, and personal information is stored on Trimble and third-party provider servers worldwide with cross-border transfers (SCCs and the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework given as safeguards), while the subprocessors behind the service are not named — a real gap on a platform that passes shipment and recipient data to 210,000+ carriers. 4 5 8

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The Warehouse Manager

Transporeon GmbH is registered in Ulm (HRB 722056) with German managing directors, but Trimble Inc. of the USA acquired it in 2023, its privacy notice covers the service, and EEA customers contract through Trimble Europe B.V. That notice states personal information sits on Trimble and third-party servers 'located worldwide', with transfers relying on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, standard contractual clauses and the UK addendum, and we found no public information naming the subprocessors behind the service. GDPR and eIDAS compliance and an ISO/IEC 27001 certification are stated on the product pages. 4 5 8

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The Transport Planner

Transporeon GmbH is registered in Ulm and EEA customers contract with Trimble Europe B.V., under a published privacy notice naming Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and the eCMR product carries ISO/IEC 27001 certification. But storage is stated as Trimble and third-party servers located worldwide, the parent is Trimble Inc. of the USA, and the processors behind the service are not named. 4 5 8

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The Fulfilment Provider

The vendor is Transporeon GmbH of Ulm, registered at Amtsgericht Ulm, but the governing privacy notice comes from the US parent: the controller is Trimble Inc. and its affiliates, EEA customers contract with Trimble Europe B.V., and personal information sits on Trimble servers and unnamed third-party servers located worldwide with cross-border transfers. Transfer safeguards are named (EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, Standard Contractual Clauses), processing on behalf of customers runs under a written contract, and the pages carry an ISO/IEC 27001 certification claim, but no subprocessor list with locations and no EU hosting commitment. 4 5 8

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The IT & Integration Lead

Transporeon GmbH is registered in Ulm and the EEA relationship sits under Trimble Europe B.V., but the parent Trimble Inc. of the USA states that personal information is stored on Trimble and third-party servers located worldwide, transferred under Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. No subprocessor list for the service is published, so I cannot see who stands behind the recipient addresses, though ISO/IEC 27001 certification is stated on the product pages. 4 5 8

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The Skeptic

The operating entity is a German GmbH with an Ulm register number, but the privacy notice covering the service is the American parent's, the controller is "Trimble Inc. and its affiliates", and personal information sits on Trimble and third-party servers "located worldwide" with transfers across borders. EEA users contract with Trimble Europe B.V., standard contractual clauses and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework are named, on-behalf processing happens "subject to a written contract", and an ISO 27001 certification claim appears on a product page — yet we found no public information on EU hosting or a named subprocessor list. 4 5 8

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Pricing transparency

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How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: subscription per tier, user, warehouse or module, the per-order, per-label or per-shipment fees, label rates and surcharges when shipping through the vendor's contracts, connector and setup fees, hardware, minimum term, and what happens to the data on cancellation.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call.

3 — A starting price or "from" figure exists, but the volume fees, included orders or labels, and how the price scales are unclear.

5 — Prices per tier are public with the main inclusions, but at least one commonly needed piece (per-order or per-label fees beyond the allowance, connectors, extra users or warehouses, onboarding) is unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every tier priced publicly with included volumes and the fee per order, label or shipment beyond them, add-ons and setup listed, minimum term and VAT treatment stated, and whether own carrier contracts are allowed on each tier said plainly.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given order volume, warehouse count and module set, with every fee, label surcharge, hardware and support cost and the cancellation and data-return terms published.

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The E-Commerce Operations Lead

The only pricing signal captured is a 'Pay as you use' usage-based pricing model with no figures attached; we found no public prices per tier, per shipment, per document or per user, no minimum term and no statement about data return on cancellation. The 'up to €13 per consignment note' figure is a savings estimate, not a price, so I could not begin to compute an annual cost. 2 8

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The Warehouse Manager

The only pricing statement is 'Pay as you use: control costs with flexible, usage-based pricing' — a model, not a figure. The eCMR savings calculator claims 'up to €13 per consignment note' saved, but that is a saving rather than a price; we found no public prices for tiers, per-shipment or per-slot fees, setup, minimum terms or data return, and the service is sold exclusively to businesses. 2 4 8

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The Transport Planner

The only pricing statement is "Pay as you use — Control costs with flexible, usage-based pricing"; no tiers, per-shipment fees, included volumes, minimum term or setup costs are published. The claim to "Save up to €13 per consignment note" is a savings figure, not a price, so I cannot compute an annual cost from public pages. 2 8

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The Fulfilment Provider

No price figure appears in the captured pages — only the statement "Pay as you use: Control costs with flexible, usage-based pricing" and an eCMR savings calculator promising savings of "up to €13 per consignment note" by cutting paperwork and overhead. With no tiers, per-shipment fees, connector costs, term or minimum volumes published, a buyer cannot compute an annual cost from public pages alone; every quote starts as a conversation. 2 8

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The IT & Integration Lead

The only pricing statement across the captured pages is flexible, usage-based pricing, alongside an eCMR savings calculator claiming savings of up to €13 per consignment note; no tier price, per-shipment fee, term or data-return condition is published, so an annual cost cannot be computed from public pages. 2 8

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The Skeptic

The only pricing statement we found is "Pay as you use" with "flexible, usage-based pricing", alongside onboarding, support and training stated as included — not a single figure anywhere. We found no public information on tiers, per-shipment fees, minimum term, VAT treatment, or what happens to the data when the contract ends, so no buyer can compute an annual cost from these pages. 2 10

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Questions about Transporeon

Is Transporeon European?

Partly. whats-best.ai classifies Transporeon as EU origin, foreign-owned.

Where does Transporeon store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026.

Does Transporeon have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Transporeon?

As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates Ongoing WMS (3.5/5), Shippingbo (3.5/5) and Mintsoft (3/5) highest among the other 14 Supply Chain & Logistics products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Ongoing WMS (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Transporeon alternatives.

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  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.transporeon.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Platform overview www.transporeon.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Features page (freight procurement) www.transporeon.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Legal notice www.transporeon.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Privacy policy (parent company) www.trimble.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Multi-carrier shipping & returns — found from sitemap www.transporeon.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Multi-carrier shipping & returns — found from sitemap www.transporeon.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Freight & transport management — found from sitemap www.transporeon.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Freight & transport management — found from sitemap www.transporeon.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Integrations, automation & exit — found from sitemap www.transporeon.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Integrations, automation & exit — found from sitemap www.transporeon.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →