Freightos vs OpenWMS.org

Freightos connects carriers, freight forwarders, and importers and exporters for freight pricing, quoting, booking, payment, and market intelligence. Freightos for Forwarders supports rate management, quotes, bookings, online sales, procurement, and payments for air, ocean, and ground shipments. Forwarders can use Book Air at no charge to search, compare, and book air cargo across more than 75 carriers. Freightos Terminal provides global freight prices, benchmarking, reliability metrics, and notifications on key lanes. Freightos for Forwarders connects directly with hundreds of carriers, including dynamic integrations with more than 75. API integrations can connect it to a TMS, a sales portal, or agent networks. The product is intended for freight forwarders and carriers; importers are directed to Freightos Enterprise instead. The service is cloud-deployed, with web, Android, iOS, and API availability. Individual Starter Ocean costs $119 a month, billed annually, and includes six months of historical data, weekly and daily pricing data for 12 lanes, one user, and one custom shipping route. Individual Starter Air costs $239 a month, billed annually.

OpenWMS.org is open-source software for building warehouse management systems and intralogistics projects. It combines warehouse management, transport management, and connections to other systems, with business functions arranged as independently deployable microservices. Integrators and customer DevOps teams can adapt it to customer-specific projects and operate the resulting systems. It supports cloud use, but services do not require the cloud; deployment options include cloud, fog or private cloud, hybrid, and monolith. In a monolith deployment, elasticity is available at infrastructure level rather than service level. COP is a web application for operators and superusers to manage warehouse inventory and processes. Roma is a cross-platform handheld app for warehouse work on phones and tablets. A workflow engine can change material-flow handling while operations continue. Services can use relational or NoSQL datastores, and the project describes connections to ERP systems and field controllers such as PLCs and Raspberry Pi devices. The project also describes OAuth 2.0 and OIDC authentication and interfaces including Grafana and Kibana. Its founder has actively developed the project since 2005.