Soloplan – creating solutions for the entire world of logistics

Soloplan –

creating solutions for the entire world of logistics

Together with international partners, 250 Soloplan employees at seven locations support about 1 500 customers with 30 000 users located all over the world. The premium software CarLo® helps to handle daily transport and logistics tasks, covering tour planning, optimisation, telematics, warehouse management, transport platforms and fleet management.

Soloplan is a family-owned business that provides superior quality software and is one of the leading German logistics software companies. More than 30 years' experience in the logistics and IT sector and the integration of best practices accrued from customers worldwide, make the software a profitable business solution. The CarLo® product family is an all-in-one-solution for completing the most diverse tasks in logistics. The flexible setup with modules ensures that the products are perfectly compatible with each other and reduce the effort required for implementation.

Customers trust Soloplan

Soloplan is an expert in the transport sector and knows exactly what customers expect from logistics software. This is why so many forwarding, transport and logistics companies worldwide trust us as their long-term partner. “Out of 43 transport management systems worldwide, we chose the logistics software CarLo® – and that was definitely the right choice. Now we can finally integrate all processes from order entry to route planning to calculation and an extensive evaluation within one platform,” says customer, Unitrans Supply Chain Solutions (Pty) Ltd. “Local service providers could not assist us with meeting our expectations and requirements. We then decided to choose one of the leading management systems offering a wide bouquet of service offerings. Soloplan really went the extra mile to comprehend our system requirements and used their specialised capabilities to develop the tools we needed to exceed the technological benchmark set in our industry,” says another customer, Reef

Tankers (Pty) Ltd.

With the logistics software CarLo®, all transport sectors and their individual requirements can be served – no matter whether you are dealing with bulk goods, intermodal transports or the classic use of the partial and full-load sector. Users from a wide range of industries can work comfortably with the software, regardless of whether multi-user; branch or group solutions are desired.

State-of-the-art technology creates competitive advantages for users

In the development of the software, Soloplan focusses on functionality, flexibility and userfriendliness. The modern design is based on the look of the latest Microsoft Office products to provide a quick start and intuitive user guidance. Company and user-specific adaptations can be individually implemented via the freely designable interface.

As an innovator, Soloplan already focusses on tomorrow's ideas and concepts at an early stage, which is why machine learning and AI have already been in use in CarLo® for many years.

The advantages of those technologies for transport planning include saving the operations team a lot of time, helping avoid mistakes and increasing efficiency. Furthermore, knowledge is no longer lost in the case of personnel changes because the transport management system learns the required behaviour based on historical data.

One of the newest highlights of AI in the transport management system, CarLo® is the prediction of delays or of the reliability of drivers and subcontractors. Also, the provision of tour suggestions based on experience and planning behaviour is possible.

A thriving branch in South Africa

Over the last couple of years, the Soloplan South Africa team, led by Regional Director Jill TrösserOrdóñez, alongside CEO International Fabian Heidl and Group CEO Wolfgang Heidl, has succeeded in more than doubling the client portfolio in the region. This again confirms the local market’s interest in the industry-leading TMS CarLo® and gives a positive outlook for the future.

Soloplan has also successfully led the second expansion of the South African branch despite the widespread impact of the global pandemic. Thus, Soloplan is proud to be in the position to provide further employment opportunities for the local branch office through continuous and steady growth patterns.

Soloplan in the future

To keep up with the company's steady growth, Soloplan is constantly looking for new, innovative team players who want to continuously develop and break new ground. Both skilled specialists and professionals from the industry work at Soloplan, which is the perfect combination. Their different educational backgrounds allow Soloplan to provide powerful software solutions and high-quality services.

To maintain and increase the level of quality in the future, Soloplan's staff management strategy encourages employees to participate in further training and to gain additional qualifications. Training sessions, seminars, specialist conferences and the internal distribution and storage of information ensure a broad and sustainable level of knowledge.

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