Many start-ups are pursuing smart ideas for transport and logistics. We present four that make everyday life easier with their products, increase transparency in the supply chain and ensure greater efficiency.
Would you like to get to know these companies? At the IAA 2022 you will have the opportunity: These and other start-ups will be guests at the Krone stand where they will present their business models.
Impargo
Gerhard Hänel and Julian Labeit, Founders
What does Impargo offer its customers? We offer licence and cloud-based “Software as a Service” solutions for shippers and transport service providers. Dispatchers are supported in their daily business with extensive functions, for example with a truck route planner, a toll calculator, a transport management system and a driver app. The software is tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized companies and is particularly easy to use. And: it is cloud-based and can therefore be easily integrated into a company’s software landscape. Our customers can adapt the range of functions to their needs by flexibly adding more as required.
Your vision? We want to increase the level of digitalisation and automation in road freight transport provided by small and medium-sized transport service providers and shippers throughout Europe. Our goal is to do away with e-mail, fax and telephone in transport logistics. If we succeed in developing a scalable solution to replace these communication channels, we will create a new infrastructure for cooperation in road freight transport in Europe.
Who are your customers? Our solutions are user-friendly and easy to integrate, which meets the needs of small and medium-sized companies. Our customers are mainly transport service providers, who form the backbone of European transport logistics, but often do not yet have modern, cloud-based software.
Logistics Cloud
CEO Niko Hossain
What is the idea behind your company? The logistics industry is massively fragmented: 1,000 companies use 10,000 different software solutions. It is impossible to connect these systems manually to enable data exchange. With ‘logistics.cloud’, we provide a solution that can automate this process and thus enable efficient data exchange between the companies - mostly shippers and logistics service providers.
How can this change transport and logistics? The efficient and effective exchange of data via our solution enables complete transparency along the supply chain. In addition, the data can be enriched with further information such as IoT data. By collaborating with various partners, it is possible to make ETA calculations for shipments, whereby CO2 emissions can be calculated at shipment level and shipment flows can be offset via projects..
Who is the target group? All global players along the supply chain: from shippers to logistics service providers.
Why do you have what it takes to scale up? We use a no-code technology that can tailor interfaces to customers’ requirements within minutes. The acknowledged model approach to development enables the solutions to be constantly scalable. We take an open approach to the market and do not see ourselves as the ONE software solution, but as a connector for all.
Shipsta
CEO David Waroquier und Gründer Christian Wilhelm
What does Shipsta do? Shipsta is an application for shippers who want to compare, manage, digitise and purchase freight rates, while simplifying their logistics processes. Logistics service providers and freight forwarders can use the intuitive supplier portal to easily manage freight rate requests, spot requests and RFIs. The platform provides intelligent analyses, delivers benchmarks, standardises processes and automates the most time-consuming tasks for all parties involved.
What does this mean for shippers and forwarders? Freight purchasing is simplified, digitalised and centralised, our customers remain agile and unrestricted. Shippers and logistics service providers around the world will be connected. Long-term contract purchases are also possible - the shipper thus secures stable freight rates.
How can this change transport and logistics? The efficient and effective exchange of data via our solution enables complete transparency along the supply chain. In addition, the shipment data can be enriched with further information such as IoT data. Through our cooperation with various partners, there is the possibility to make ETA calculations for consignments, to calculate the CO2 emissions at consignment level and then to compensate for them via various projects.
Who is behind your company? The founders of Shipsta had previously worked together for the logistics company Kühne + Nagel for many years. Together they decided to give freight purchasing a general overhaul.
Oncap
Anthony Wandt, Managing Director
Who is behind your company? Oncap is a spin-off of Wandt Spedition Transportberatung GmbH that works together with various partners: The team consists of logistics and software development experts - from rookies to old hands.
What can your product do? Our software enables logistics to visually and procedurally document their interfaces and transfers of risk to their carriers. Paper checklists are replaced by digital proof plans and photo proofs in real time.
What is the business model behind this? Oncap is a SaaS solution that bundles logistical sub-processes in one application, creating immediate economies of scale. Our business model is sustainable and incremental, so it is developed step by step. It is a practical solution with which we help companies achieve noticeable savings potential, along their supply chain through process optimisation.
Who is the target group? Shippers and logistics companies along the entire supply chain. They use Oncap to fulfil their verification obligations and make their daily operations more productive. The logistical processes in the interface with carriers are simplified and improved.
Why do you have what it takes to develop? The team consists of practitioners: they understand the everyday problems in logistics - and not from a reference book, but from personal experience. Our software solves exactly the challenges involved.
Photos: Impargo, Logistics Cloud, Shipsta, Stefan Bungert
