Logistics Data Exchange Platform for a Dutch Founder
Dispatch advice arrives as a PDF, and carriers confirm by phone. So the warehouse learns about a late truck from an idle ramp. Then a dispatcher spends an hour on the phone moving slots. A Dutch founder put the brief plainly. No more paper and email, and every shipment in one place. Hygge built a platform that joins SAP and other ERPs, the WMS, the TMS and carriers in one shipment record. When a truck falls behind, an AI module proposes a new dock slot and alerts the team. The dispatcher confirms the new slot in one action, and the carrier, the driver and the warehouse see it at once.
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Where Your Shipment Data Breaks Today
ERP, warehouse and carriers each keep their own version of a shipment, and people fill the gaps between them.
Everything Arrives as Email and PDF
Dispatch advice, delivery notes and proofs of delivery land in inboxes. Someone retypes them into the ERP and the WMS.
The Ramp Learns First That a Truck Is Late
The warehouse hears about a delay once the dock is idle. The crew waits for a trailer that is still on the road.
An Hour on the Phone per Late Truck
Each changed arrival means calls to the carrier, the warehouse and the customer to rebuild the slot plan by hand.
People Holding the Systems Together
ERP, WMS and the carrier's TMS each own part of the shipment, and the links between them live in a few dispatchers' heads.
Compliance Data Pieced Together Later
When an authority or a customer asks, someone pieces together eFTI data and emissions per leg.
The Challenge
Shippers, warehouses and carriers swap orders and delivery notes every hour. Each one runs a different system. The data travels as attachments and phone calls, so the parties never see the same shipment at the same moment. The cost shows up at the dock. A late truck reaches the warehouse as an empty ramp. A dispatcher spends the next hour on the phone moving slots. The same story repeats with every new carrier.
The founder's brief was short: paper documents and email threads out, every shipment in one place.
Our Solution
Hygge built a logistics data exchange platform. An API gateway links SAP and other ERPs, the WMS and the TMS. Orders, dispatch advice (DESADV), pickups, ETA updates and proofs of delivery land on one shipment timeline. Shipper, warehouse, transporter and admin each work in their own view of it. When the ETA feed shows a truck falling behind, an AI module predicts the new arrival time and finds a free dock slot. It sends the proposal to the dispatcher and the warehouse, who confirm it in one action. The same record yields the eFTI data set, ISO 14083 emissions per leg and product passport links. It all runs on the client's servers in the EU.
One shipment record every system writes to, with late trucks handled before they arrive.
How the Logistics Data Exchange Platform Solves It
Each module answers one of the breaks above, and all of them write to the same shipment record.
One Record From SAP to the Driver
An API gateway takes orders, dispatch advice and status messages from the ERP, WMS and TMS, so shipments stop being retyped.
Dispatch Advice Before the Truck
Dispatch advice from the ERP reaches the warehouse the moment it is sent, with pallets, SSCCs and the planned slot.
Delays Caught on the Road
ETA updates and delay events arrive in real time, and the AI module flags a missed slot while the truck is still driving.
Dock Slots That Rebook Themselves
The dock scheduling software proposes the next free ramp slot. Once the dispatcher confirms it, carrier, driver and warehouse see the change at once.
A View for Every Party
Shippers track orders, and the warehouse runs its dock schedule. Carriers confirm pickups and proofs of delivery, and admins set the rules.
eFTI and Emissions From the Same Data
Data for authorities, emissions per leg and product passport links come from the record the team already keeps.
What Runs Without Anyone Pressing a Button
The late-truck flow the platform runs without a phone call.
Delay Detected
An ETA update shows the truck will miss its dock slot.
New Slot Proposed
The platform works out the new arrival time and finds a free ramp slot that fits it.
Team Alerted
The dispatcher and the warehouse get the proposal by email and in the app.
Everyone Updated
Once the slot is confirmed, the new time reaches the carrier, the driver and every connected system.
What the Platform Gives Dispatch and the Dock
What the platform gives dispatch and the dock, each tied to one of the breaks above.
When a Delay Is Caught
To Confirm a New Dock Slot
Servers for Shipment and eFTI Data
For Shipper, Warehouse and Carrier
The Services Behind the Platform
SAP
React
TypeScript
NestJS
PostgreSQL
Kafka
Python
Docker
KubernetesHow the First Release Was Built
Foundation and Sign-In
Integration Layer
Tracking and Dock Slots
Exceptions and Alerts
Compliance and Launch
Industries We Serve
Industries where shipment data crosses company lines all day, and each delay costs a dock hour.
Logistics & Warehouse Automation
Operator interfaces for autonomous fleets, industrial integration and systems rebuilt without taking a working site offline.
Retail & E-Commerce
Recommendation engines, retail media platforms and the billing accuracy that decides whether store partners stay.
Solutions Behind the Logistics Data Exchange Platform
The Hygge solutions this build draws on.
API & Payment Integration
An API gateway links SAP and other ERPs, the WMS and the TMS into one shipment record.
Inventory & Fleet Management Software
Every truck, dock slot and proof of delivery is tracked on one shipment timeline.
Business Process Automation
A late truck triggers a new dock slot proposal and alerts without phone calls.
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Logistics Data Exchange Platform: Questions Buyers Ask
What is a logistics data exchange platform?
How does dock scheduling software handle a late truck?
Can the platform connect to SAP?
Will our carriers have to log in to yet another portal?
What is eFTI and how does the platform support it?
Who decides when a dock slot moves?
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