AtlasCore Logistics: an operating system for carriers and freight forwarders

In most carriers and freight forwarders a load exists in five places at once: the phone call that booked it, the spreadsheet that dispatched it, the tracking app that followed it, the folder of documents that went with it and the invoice that settled it. Each hand-off between them is done by a person, and each one is a chance for the record to drift.

AtlasCore Logistics grew out of the transportation management system Opsian's partner Eleven11 Digital built for On The Rock Logistics in Texas. It is the same idea built as a product any carrier can run.

A load is one record from quote to settlement. Dispatch assigns it, tracking follows it, the documents that go with it are attached to it, and settlement is calculated from what actually happened rather than from what was typed in afterwards. Drivers, dispatchers, customers and accounts all look at the same load.

The automation is aimed at the work carriers still do by hand. Routing and load planning are suggested by the system for a dispatcher to approve; rate confirmations, bills of lading and proof-of-delivery paperwork are produced from the load record; and customer questions about a shipment are answered by governed agents from the same record, with anything outside their limits routed to a person.

Many carriers run on spreadsheets and calls because no system fitted them. AtlasCore is designed to become the system of record for an operator that has none, and to connect to the accounting and customer systems it already has, so that a load recorded once is a load everywhere.