Planning & Optimization Module

Tramm Planning & Optimization is the part of the Tramm platform where you visualise and plan optimised transport routes across every environment your operation runs — multi-modal networks, cross-docks, and primary and secondary distribution — and then adjust them in real time as the day changes. It brings together seven purpose-built planning apps on one unified data model, so you can move from a fully automated optimisation run to hands-on, drag-and-drop control without ever leaving the module or losing context.

Transport and logistics operators who plan and dispatch loads at scale — third-party logistics providers, distributors, manufacturers, and in-house fleet operations. It serves both the planner who wants the system to generate optimal trips automatically, and the experienced dispatcher who needs full manual control for VIP customers, sensitive cargo, and urgent escalations.

Most tools give you either automated optimisation or manual control — Tramm gives you both, on the same live entity model. Every app (Planner, Manual Planner, Multi-modal, Master Routes, Crossdock, Full Load Planner and Left-on-Board) shares one source of truth, and every change ripples in real time through Tramm's state engine. The result is a single planning pipeline rather than a collection of disconnected point tools.

Select your unplanned orders and hit Plan. Tramm's optimisation engine assembles the most efficient set of trips — automatically handling vehicle assignment, stop sequencing and routing — while minimising distance, time and cost. You see every planned route on a live map alongside utilisation, distance and cost metrics, so you can approve with confidence or refine before dispatch.

Optimisation that used to take hours is produced in seconds. The engine routinely plans hundreds of orders into dozens of trips in a single run, so planning teams spend their time reviewing and refining rather than building trips by hand.

Every solve honours the constraints that actually govern your operation: vehicle capacity (weight and volume), delivery time windows, product compatibility, vehicle-class capability and restrictions, and operator hours and regulations. Any breach is surfaced as a violation before dispatch — not discovered after the truck has rolled.

Chora is the high-performance solver that powers Tramm's optimisation. By harnessing modern GPU compute, it explores far more routing possibilities in far less time than conventional planners — which is what delivers both the speed (seconds, not hours) and the higher-quality route solutions you see in the results. In practice it means better plans, faster, on the same fleet.

Yes. Planning is not a once-a-day event. Because the module runs on a real-time state engine, you can re-optimise as conditions change throughout the operation — new orders, delays, breakdowns or cancellations — and keep every trip, job and stop in sync. That is what keeps you responsive in a dynamic environment instead of locked into a plan that is already out of date.

Absolutely. The Manual Planner is a full drag-and-drop workspace for the moves that need human judgement. Planners can drag, drop, re-sequence, reassign and split trips, jobs and movements with a single gesture, with map and Gantt views side by side and instant validation as they go. The Load Builder is built in, so capacity violations appear before you commit.

Three, and you can switch between them without switching apps: Standard (conventional pick-up and delivery planning), Crossdock (hub transshipment planning), and Multi-modal (journeys spanning several transport modes). The same workspace adapts to the operational reality in front of you.

Planner (automated optimisation), Manual Planner (drag-and-drop control), the Multi-modal app (road/rail/sea/air orchestration), Master Route Builder (repeatable template routes), the Cross Docking app (transshipment hubs), the Full Load Planner (3D load building and consolidation), and Left-on-Board Management (recovery of undelivered cargo). All seven share one live data model, so work flows seamlessly between them.

Yes — road, rail, sea and air are modelled as first-class segments within a single movement, not bolted on as an afterthought. A door-to-door journey that hands off from road to sea to rail and back to road is tracked as one shipment, with every segment, handoff and workflow event logged end to end, and full traceability from any order back to the legs that delivered it.

Master Routes let you design a recurring delivery pattern once — a milk run, a fixed customer collection round, a scheduled tour — and reuse it forever as a template. Tramm supports Standard, Stop-Only and Tour templates, grouped into Master Route Sets by region, day-of-week or campaign. Matching orders auto-populate the template trip every cycle, driving the manual effort on repeatable work down to almost nothing.

The Cross Docking app plans both sides of the dock as one operation. You coordinate inbound and outbound on a single screen, drag any order onto any outbound segment with capacity checked in real time, and watch dock throughput on a Gantt timeline to spot pinch points before they happen. Loading-bay booking is integrated with conflict avoidance, and every transfer is logged for audit and claims.

The Full Load Planner captures the economics of a genuinely full truck. Combining 3D load visualisation with consolidation logic, it finds combinations of orders that fill a vehicle and trigger full-truckload rates. You see live weight and volume utilisation, build loads by dragging orders into vehicle compartments, and have constraints such as stackability, fragility, hazmat and temperature enforced before you commit.

Cargo that did not make it to the customer on the last trip does not vanish from the plan. Tramm tracks undelivered goods at the vehicle and trailer level, surfaces them in the next planning cycle, and feeds them back automatically into Planner, Manual Planner, Crossdock and Full Load Planner. LOB is a first-class signal to the violation engine, with configurable rules per operation — so you never silently lose a unit between legs.

The module is engineered around the metrics planning teams are measured on: higher vehicle utilisation (through 3D load building and consolidation), lower cost per kilometre (through automated optimisation, Master Route reuse and full-truckload triggers), better on-time delivery (through constraint-aware planning and live violation detection), faster planning cycles (hours of work collapsed into minutes), and zero units lost between legs (through LOB recovery).

Planning & Optimization is one module on a single platform. Orders captured through Order Management — via API, EDI, portals or manual entry — flow straight into planning, then on to consolidation, execution and reconciliation, all on the same entity model. Planning is the second stage of one continuous pipeline (Capture, Plan, Consolidate, Move, Reconcile), not a separate system you have to integrate.

The Planning module runs on a modern, reactive, enterprise-grade foundation: an Angular front end, a .NET back end, a GraphQL data pipeline, Tramm's LEE rules engine, and Azure AD single sign-on, with real-time state cascades keeping every entity consistent. It is designed to meet the security, reliability and scale requirements of enterprise logistics operations.

Book a demo. In about 45 minutes we will run your real orders through live optimisation so you can see the plans, the utilisation and the savings on your own operation. Contact info@tramm.global to arrange a session.