Körber Transportation Management vs OpenWMS.org

Körber Transportation Management is a web-based system for shippers and logistics service providers. It supports transport networks from first mile to last mile, including single-stage and multi-stage, multimodal operations. Workflows cover order management, planning and scheduling, operational monitoring, invoicing, and financial and performance indicators. Teams can manage owned and third-party vehicles, personnel, and equipment, consolidate incoming transport orders, and maintain master routes with access restrictions at stops. Shipment tracking and automated disruption handling support transport monitoring. Billing can be configured for different logistics services, with invoices handled automatically or manually. A web portal shares information with customers, logistics providers, and partners. Körber lists integrations with ERP, distributed order management, warehouse and yard management systems; fleet operators also have listed connections to accounting, telematics, and fuel management systems. The TMS is described as a cross-industry option for truckload and less-than-truckload carriers, brokers, and 3PLs. It uses hybrid deployment and runs on the web. Pricing is on request.

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.