# Transporeon — Supply Chain & Logistics

Transporeon by Transporeon GmbH holds a panel rating of 1.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-10-28. Provenance: EU origin, foreign-owned; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Transporeon GmbH (https://www.transporeon.com)
- Category: [Supply Chain & Logistics](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU origin, foreign-owned
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/transporeon
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/transporeon/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/transporeon/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-29 · evaluated 2026-10-28 · oldest source captured 2026-10-26

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Transporeon GmbH
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026

## 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.

**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

**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

**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

**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

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The E-Commerce Operations Lead | The Warehouse Manager | The Transport Planner | The Fulfilment Provider | The IT & Integration Lead | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Inventory & stock control | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | n/r | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 |
| Warehouse operations: receiving, picking & packing | 0/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Multi-carrier shipping & returns | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Freight & transport management | 4.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 4.5/5 | 4.5/5 | 4.5/5 |
| Integrations, automation & exit | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| European sovereignty | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **1/5** | **1.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **1.5/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The E-Commerce Operations Lead** (v1.0): Ships three hundred parcels a day from a shop, two marketplaces and a wholesale channel. Wants stock that is right on every channel so nothing is oversold, labels for four carriers printed in one batch, customs papers for Switzerland without retyping, and a returns portal that stops the support inbox filling up every January.
- **The Warehouse Manager** (v1.0): Runs two shifts in a four-thousand-square-metre warehouse with temps who start on Monday. Wants goods receipt against the purchase order, bin locations and scanner-guided picks a new hire gets right on day one, batch and best-before dates that are actually tracked, and pick and error rates per shift instead of a feeling.
- **The Transport Planner** (v1.0): Books forty pallets and three part loads a week for a machinery wholesaler, mostly by e-mail and phone. Wants quotes from several forwarders compared in one place, the agreed rates stored so invoices can be checked against them, eCMR instead of paper, and a CO2 figure per shipment the sustainability report can cite.
- **The Fulfilment Provider** (v1.0): Runs a 3PL warehouse with twenty-two client brands, each on a different shop system. Wants one WMS that keeps every client's stock and orders apart, connects to whatever shop the next client brings, ships on the client's own carrier contracts or the house rates, and turns picks, storage and packaging into a client invoice.
- **The IT & Integration Lead** (v1.0): Owns the ERP, the shop and the DATEV export for a mid-sized manufacturer, and gets the call when an order does not arrive in the warehouse. Wants a documented API and webhooks, EDI for the two retail chains, connectors the vendor actually maintains, a processor list for the recipient addresses, and a full export the day the contract ends.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has seen a "WMS" that was a stock column in a shop plugin and a "free" shipping tool that made its money on every label. Reads "integrates with everything" as a logo wall, asks whether own carrier contracts are allowed on the cheap tier, what the per-order fee is past the allowance, and how the order history leaves with you.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Children privacy: 13 [S5]
- Dnt support: no [S5]
- Efti qr sharing: yes · yes [S9]
- Eidas signatures: yes [S9]
- Eidas signatures: yes · yes [S8]
- EU standards: UN/CEFACT · IRU CMR template [S8]
- GDPR: yes · yes [S8]
- Gpc support: yes [S5]
- ISO 27001: yes [S8]
- Signature technology: yes · hash function · ECDSA · blockchain [S8]
- Transfer safeguards: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework · Standard Contractual Clauses · UK International Data Transfer Addendum · consent [S5]
- US state rights phone: online · phone: 1-800-TRIMBLE [S5]

**Data**
- Account closure option: yes [S5]
- Data subject rights: access · correct · erase · transfer [S5]
- Notice change period: 30 [S5]
- Retention periods: 10 · 7 [S5]

**Hosting**
- Storage locations: Trimble servers and third-party provider servers, worldwide [S5]

**Integrations**
- Named partner providers: Data2Track · Frotcom · Gurtam (Wialon) · Holte Software Poland (Holte Fleet GPS Locator) · Mobilisis · Navkonzept (OpenTelematics) · Webfleet Solutions [S11]
- Open flexible: can build own agile TMS or extend internal capabilities [S2]
- Oracle gold partner: yes · Gold Partner [S10]
- Primary features: Oracle Integration · SAP Integration · Easily connect to logistics transport partners · Direct connection to your partners · Onboarding and support included [S10]

**Legal**
- B2b only: no [S4]
- Controller entity: Trimble Inc. and its affiliates [S5]
- Editorial: Peter Read [S4]
- Eea contracting entity: Trimble Europe B.V. [S5]
- Employment data excluded: no · Trimble Candidate and Employee Privacy Notice [S5]
- Entity name: Transporeon GmbH · Heidenheimer Straße 55/1, 89075 Ulm, Germany [S4]
- Notice last updated: 2026-09-24 [S5]
- Ownership: 2023 · Trimble [S4]
- Registration: HRB 722056 · Amtsgericht Ulm [S4]
- Tax id: DE 25 80 42 133 [S4]

**Product**
- AI agents: AI agent access, agentic assistance and autonomous workflows built into Transport Execution products [S7]
- AI capabilities: statistical and generative AI for automation [S2]
- AI solutions: Autonomous Procurement · Autonomous Quotation · Market Insights · predictive ETAs · AI Agents carrier onboarding [S1]
- AI training use: yes [S5]
- Anti piracy phone home: yes [S5]
- Assigned transport interface: Import assigned transports from Transporeon to in-house system with link to Time Slot Management [S6]
- Carrier integration standard solutions: Ready-to-use Carrier Integration solutions for data exchange between in-house systems and Transporeon platform [S6]
- Cloud based: thousands · yes [S1]
- Contracted procurement: yes [S3]
- Customer data processing on behalf: yes [S5]
- Customers named: Shell · ArcelorMittal [S8]
- Dca requirements: PDF/A · yes · yes · yes [S9]
- Dca scope: digital DCA for domestic transport and cabotage in Spain [S9]
- Dock yard management: dock and yard management to reduce truck queuing [S1]
- Dock yard management: yes [S2]
- Documents covered: eCMR, Carta de Porte / DCA and eDelivery Note in one flow [S9]
- Ecmr standard: eCMR built on IRU 2007 model with eIDAS advanced electronic signatures [S9]
- Edelivery note epod: eDelivery Note = ePOD, real-time digital goods receipt record [S9]
- Epod item level: yes [S9]
- Erp interfaces purpose: Transporeon ERP interfaces connect ERP systems to logistics network functions like shipment matching and dock scheduling [S10]
- Exception capture: damage photos · seal numbers · discrepancies [S8]
- Exceptions evidence: comments, photos, seal numbers and quantity discrepancies recorded at handover with time-stamped trail [S9]
- Execution hub: Transport Execution Hub is a single point of access for forwarders and carriers for shipments received from the Transportation Management Platform [S7]
- Execution visibility: matching assets and loads [S1]
- Execution visibility: yes [S2]
- Experience years: 25 [S2]
- Features: Transporeon app · sign on glass signature · electronic PDF creation and direct transfer · e-mail to goods recipient · comment functionality [S8]
- Freight audit: automated billing process and freight spend visibility for all modes [S1]
- Freight audit: yes [S2]
- Freight marketplace: structured and scalable way to source partners for spot, seasonal and long-term contracts [S1]
- Freight marketplace: Sourcing partners for spot, seasonal and long-term contracts [S2]
- Freight marketplace scope: Freight Marketplace covers contracted freight, open and closed spot, and market intelligence, supporting contracted, seasonal and ad-hoc tenders [S3]
- Instant invoicing: yes [S8]
- Integration stack: transport management systems integration · truck telematics · mapping data · predictive analytics [S11]
- Managed network: yes [S2]
- Market benchmarking: yes · yes [S3]
- Marketing email tracking: Unsubscribe/Manage Preferences link · yes [S5]
- Modular use cases: Fully modular use cases across dealmaking, execution and settlement solutions [S2]
- Modules: autonomous dealmaking · execution & visibility · dock & yard management · freight audit [S1]
- Network size: 210000 · 1500 · 30000000 [S2]
- Next generation workspace: Next Generation workspace with open, agentic workflows to orchestrate the transport lifecycle; builds on 20 years of excellence [S7]
- No app required: no [S9]
- October 2026 regulation: 2026-10 [S8]
- Onboarding training included: support · onboarding · training [S10]
- One time activation: yes · yes · yes · yes [S6]
- Pay as you use: yes [S2]
- Pdf generation: yes [S8]
- Platform description: Transportation Management System, can be built on top of existing system or use full network [S2]
- Premium partner programme: Premium Telematics Partner Programme · yes [S11]
- Premium partner setup: yes · yes [S11]
- Real time visibility: yes · yes [S8]
- Roi calculator: yes [S8]
- Savings per note: up to · 13 [S8]
- Settlements interface: Display and manage settlements from in-house system [S6]
- Sms messaging: yes · yes [S5]
- Sourcing events: Supports spot requests, smaller or frequent tenders, and sourcing events of any size for any mode at any time [S3]
- Spanish layout: yes [S8]
- Spot bidding capability: yes · yes · yes [S6]
- Stakeholders shared record: shared record for shippers, carriers, drivers, recipients and authorities; changes reflected in real time [S9]
- Supported erp vendors: SAP · Oracle · Microsoft · proprietary [S10]
- Telematics market coverage: covers more than 95% of the telematics market, partnered with Fleetboard, Dynafleet, Webfleet Solutions and Scania [S11]
- Tiap program: Transporeon Integrated App Program (TIAP) for TMS providers, offering incentives [S6]
- Track record: 20 [S1]
- Transport operations: Transport Operations module allows shifting between or combining transport modes with visibility and control [S7]
- Trimble id SSO: yes · Trimble ID [S5]
- Workflow steps: automatic from transport order [S9]

## Questions

### 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)](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/ongoing-wms), [Shippingbo (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/shippingbo) and [Mintsoft (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/mintsoft) 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](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/ongoing-wms) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Transporeon alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/transporeon/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- We could not confirm any pricing information on the vendor’s own pages as captured, so this page shows none rather than a statement we cannot stand behind.
- 43 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 14 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 9 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 7 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 hosting facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 data fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://www.transporeon.com/en (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S2] Platform overview: https://www.transporeon.com/en/platform (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S3] Features page (freight procurement): https://www.transporeon.com/en/platform/freight-marketplace (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S4] Legal notice: https://www.transporeon.com/en/imprint (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S5] Privacy policy (parent company): https://www.trimble.com/en/our-commitment/responsible-business/data-privacy-and-security/data-privacy-center/privacy-notice (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S6] Multi-carrier shipping & returns — found from sitemap: https://www.transporeon.com/en/platform/carrier/carrier-interfaces (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S7] Multi-carrier shipping & returns — found from sitemap: https://www.transporeon.com/en/platform/transport-execution-visibility-hub/carrier-lsp (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S8] Freight & transport management — found from sitemap: https://www.transporeon.com/en/platform/dock-yard-management-hub/shipper/digital-transport-documents/ecmr (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S9] Freight & transport management — found from sitemap: https://www.transporeon.com/en/platform/dock-yard-management-hub/shipper/digital-transport-documents (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S10] Integrations, automation & exit — found from sitemap: https://www.transporeon.com/en/platform/platform-capabilities/erp-interfaces (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S11] Integrations, automation & exit — found from sitemap: https://www.transporeon.com/en/platform/transport-execution-visibility-hub/integrations (checked 2026-10-26)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Transporeon — Supply Chain & Logistics", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-29. https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/transporeon

Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/1019?target=page