Centralized carrier connectivity alongside your TMS
ConnectShip integrates with enterprise Transportation Management Systems (TMS) to provide centralized carrier connectivity for parcel, LTL, same-day, and mail services.
While a TMS manages transportation planning, optimization, and freight execution strategy, ConnectShip manages the carrier connectivity, compliance, and labeling
infrastructure required to execute shipments across complex carrier networks.
A TMS is built to optimize freight decisions. Carrier APIs are built to execute shipments.
As carrier networks expand, especially across parcel and LTL, embedding direct carrier integrations inside a TMS can increase maintenance complexity
TMS Alone
Planning + limited carrier connectivity
Individual carrier integrations
Carrier updates may impact TMS logic
Fragmented compliance management
ConnectShip
Planning + centralized carrier infrastructure
Multi-carrier connectivity through one integration
Carrier updates isolated within ConnectShip
Centralized compliance control
For enterprise environments with complex carrier ecosystems, using ConnectShip alongside your TMS enables centralized carrier management and compliance while maintaining flexibility, reducing long-term operational risk.
Transportation Management Systems excel at:
- Route optimization
- Mode selection
- Freight cost management
- Load consolidation
ConnectShip provides:
- Carrier API connectivity
- Label generation
- Compliance management
- Multi-carrier parcel and LTL execution
- Scalable carrier onboarding
Together, this separation provides both strategic transportation planning and operational execution stability.
- Parcel and LTL execution require additional carrier depth
- Carrier API maintenance is increasing in complexity
- Compliance management is fragmented across systems
- Regional and specialty carrier need to be added without reworking the TMS
ConnectShip complements your TMS by centralizing carrier logic and connectivity outside of core transportation planning workflows.
ConnectShip integrates with a range of enterprise TMS environments, including:
- Oracle Transportation Management
- SAP Transportation Management
- Blue Yonder TMS
- Manhattan TMS
- Custom and proprietary TMS systems
Integration methods may include APIs, web services, or middleware, depending on architecture requirements.
- Transportation plans generated in the TMS flow into ConnectShip for execution
- Carrier rate selection and compliance logic are centralized
- Labels and shipping documentation are compliant
- Parcel and LTL carriers operate within a singular framework
- Carrier updates do not require TMS redevelopment
- Tracking and shipment confirmation data return to enterprise systems
This allows the TMS to focus on optimization and planning while ConnectShip manages carrier infrastructure.
Because carrier components are maintained independently within ConnectShip, ongoing carrier changes do not disrupt transporatation planning logic.
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Transportation environments vary widely based on mode mix, carrier complexity, and planning workflows.. ConnectShip works with enterprise teams to design integration strategies aligned with existing TMS investments.
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