AROBS Transilvania – custom software development company
Customs and Logistics Software Development & Automation that Cuts Your Costs and Grows your Business
// For logistics service providers, shippers and TMS operators
Between your TMS / WMS and everyone who needs its data sits a layer of manual work: orders re-keyed from email, statuses chased by phone, and freight bills handled one at a time. With years of customs and logistics software development expertise, we automate that layer with advanced logistics technologies. Portals, order entry, freight messaging and document capture – built around the systems you already run.
Benelux business software since 1989 | 60+ logistics clients | CoSo by AROBS & Future WorkForce (FWF), part of AROBS Group | Outcome-based | Project-delivered | AI-powered
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The question is no longer whether your logistics operation digitalises. It is whether the software around your TMS was built for 2030 — or bolted on in 2015 and patched ever since.
Your operations today
- Orders arrive by email and telephone, then get re-keyed into the TMS
- A person answers “Where is my shipment?”
- Each partner needs its own bespoke interface, maintained by whoever built it
- Transport documents live in paper, PDFs and inboxes
- Planners spend mornings on data entry you cannot recruit for
Your operations with us
- Customers enter orders themselves, validated at source and written straight into the TMS
- A portal answers it, using live TMS data, at three in the morning.
- One messaging platform handles every dialect, with one team accountable
- Structured digital documents
- Planners spend time on planning
Choose the right logistics software development services
Our experts have developed solutions for the Benelux logistics sector since 1989, and almost everything below started as one client’s specific problem. Now we’re helping companies increase productivity through custom logistics software development & automation.
We use Tech as a catalyst.
We create environments where every employee can use their potential, and where work is creative and inspiring. We automate operations, not strategic work.
What we build & why it matters for your logistics and customs challenges
Automation
Movement of freight back-office work handled by software: invoices, freight bills, proofs of delivery, onboarding
TMS and integration
We connect your transport systems to enterprise resource planning, finance, customer portals and fleet management tools.
Track & Trace portals
Live shipment status for customers, carriers and your service desk
Web order entry for TMS
Customers place and amend their own orders, straight into your TMS
EDI/API messaging platforms
One messaging layer for every partner standard to connect with the logistics providers
Zero-emission zone software
Camera-based zone enforcement for municipalities and agencies
Document and data capture
Structured data pulled from the emails and documents your operation runs on
Customs applications, web and mobile
Specifically for Customs software services, connecting to your customers and your ERP. Built to your process, owned by you, maintained by us
Logistics companies, 3PL (third-party logistics providers) and freight forwarding
Customs companies
Shippers and cargo owners (manufacturers and distributors)
Warehousing and fulfilment
TMS vendors and platform operators
Municipalities and public agencies
Logistics companies, 3PL (third-party logistics providers) and freight forwarding
Customs companies
Shippers and cargo owners (manufacturers and distributors)
Warehousing and fulfilment
TMS vendors and platform operators
Municipalities and public agencies
What you get: performant logistics management
Productivity
No more re-keying orders into three systems. The same team handles more volume.
Customer experience
Customers order and track status themselves, at any hour. Fewer calls, faster answers.
Costs
Manual inventory management, error correction, and back-office hours leave your run rate for good.
Quality & governance
Every transaction is captured, timestamped and properly organised for audits, ensuring clear logistics data management.
Employee satisfaction
People spend their day on work that needs judgement, not on transcription.
Supporting ROI procurement
We agree on the target KPI before we build the project, and we measure results according to it.
AI & Automation Software for Logistics Companies
A digital workforce that runs overnight and reduces workflow errors. Improve transportation management & supply chain management
Every logistics company carries a layer of repetitive tasks: the same figures typed twice, the same status chased across three portals – elements that create operational challenges. Software robots handle them across your delivery operations and warehouse operations without transcription errors. They work inside the systems you already run – no replacement, no re-platforming.
What we automate for logistics businesses. Logistics software development
- Data entry between your systems and B2B portals – the same shipment keyed once, not four times
- Shipment tracking and scheduling – statuses collected and pushed to customers and your TMS automatically for efficient shipping operations
- Freight bill payment and invoices – bills gathered, invoices raised and chased without manual matching
- Proofs of delivery – captured, filed and reconciled against the load
- Load close-out – exceptions researched and loads closed without a person opening every file
- Customer onboarding – new accounts set up across systems from one entry
How we start
We assess the automation funnel and logistics processes maturity first, then rank processes by payback rather than by how interesting they are to automate. We don’t build anything until we agree on your objectives.
Proof from companies like yours. Logistics software development & automation
Laboratory Services company saves 1.1 mil. Euros, 56% in turnaround time and 17% in administrative time | Logistics software development services
Client
A leading Laboratory Services company based in Benelux
The situation
European growth was outpacing the accuracy and cost-efficiency of their core processes. With a Centre of Excellence already running in the US, the task was to establish a federated CoE in Europe to drive automation locally.
What we built
FWF assessed their automation funnel and process maturity, then ran a tailored programme spanning consulting, project management, business analysis and development. Intensive training and a phased handover transferred ownership to their own newly trained team.
The results:
- Cost Savings of 1.1 mil. Euros
- 56% reduction in turnaround time
- 17% reduction in administrative time spent
- Tens of thousands of hours saved across European sites
- Automation and AI projects went live in three weeks on average, from kick-off to production
- A leaner workflow and lower operational costs
- Staff freed from routine work to focus on higher-value tasks
Logistics group cuts hours 7% in year one, with a blueprint for every OpCo | Logistics software development services
Client
A global operating Logistics company based in Benelux
The situation
Optimising personnel time was critical as costs rose rapidly and labour shortages slowed growth.
What we built
FWF created an automation pipeline and, based on a maturity assessment and together with the customer, set up the right operating model for the multi-year programme. It was based on their automation potential and ROI, used a range of technologies, and enabled them to meet their strategic objectives.
The results:
First-year results:
- Organisation-wide awareness of the automation programme
- A reusable blueprint built, ready to copy across all OpCos
- 7% reduction in hours
- Reinvested time to improve cash flow and cut processing time in operations such as Land Transport and Warehousing
Next steps:
- Organise for company-wide implementation
- Roll the blueprint out to all OpCos
- Build an in-house Centre of Excellence (CoE)
FWF Automation Program - Building the capabilities to eliminate manual effort and create value for a Global Logistics Company | Logistics software development services
Client
Global logistics company with +550 offices in 47 countries and regions around the world and +25,000 employees
The situation
The need to reduce manual effort to save costs and enable employees to focus on value-added activities and customer experience
What we built
A program to scale and build the capabilities centrally to deliver solutions across countries and departments:
- Discovery – identifies, assesses and prepares the highest value business processes for automation.
- Delivery – designs, develops, tests and puts the robots to work automating processes 24/7/365
- Centre of Excellence – builds the capabilities within the customer’s organisation without losing pace
- Support and Maintenance – fully manages the automated operations to ensure smooth operations
The results:
- 10+ processes automated
- 9 countries supported, and growing
- Manual processes eliminated
- Reusable across countries
- Automate at pace
"FWF is not only a software supplier, but they have indeed what's really possible and perhaps also what's not possible. They helped us getting started and to accelerate, always with the intention that we would eventually become more independent and self-sufficient for the future. Which is appreciated."
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Four steps. Advanced logistics software solutions.
1
Assess the process
2
Define the outcome
3
Build the right solution
4
Deliver and scale
Most vendors run your transport. Our logistics software development services run everything around it.
Your customers want a portal with their branding and their data. Your team want orders arriving as structured messages, not email attachments to rekey. Your partners each want a different EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) dialect. Your compliance team wants an audit trail that survives an inspection.
That is the layer we build. We start where your TMS stops and connect the two. It is a complementary layer, not a replacement, and no rip-and-replace is required.
Our Benelux team has built business software in Breda and Brecht since 1989, largely for logistics and the public sector. When a project needs more capacity than our local team has, AROBS scales the bench — the same delivery, more people, no new vendor. For process automation, we establish essential details from the start – maturity assessment first, automation second, measurable ROI as the deliverable.
Three forces are reshaping the logistics industry
There is a driver shortage across Europe
The IRU’s latest global driver shortage survey puts Europe among the worst-affected regions: roughly 502,000 unfilled truck driver positions, or 13% of all driver jobs. Around 660,500 European drivers are due to retire by 2030. You cannot recruit your way out of that gap. But you can stop spending scarce planner and driver hours on data entry.
Paper freight now has an expiry date. Going digital
From 9 July 2027, every enforcement authority across the EU must accept freight transport information submitted electronically through a certified eFTI platform, under Regulation (EU) 2020/1056. The Netherlands is already building its national eFTI gate. The framework is settled. What is still open is whether your messaging layer is ready before your largest customer asks for it in a tender.
The city is closing in on your fleet.
Twenty Dutch municipalities now operate zero-emission zones for city logistics, with at least ten more scheduled. Access tightens again for Euro 5 vans on 1 January 2027 and closes to all fossil-fuel vans and lorries in 2030. Those zones are enforced by cameras, number plates and exemption registers – which makes compliance a software problem long before it becomes a fleet problem.
Three forces are reshaping the logistics industry
There is a driver shortage across Europe
The IRU’s latest global driver shortage survey puts Europe among the worst-affected regions: roughly 502,000 unfilled truck driver positions, or 13% of all driver jobs. Around 660,500 European drivers are due to retire by 2030. You cannot recruit your way out of that gap. But you can stop spending scarce planner and driver hours on data entry.
Paper freight now has an expiry date. Going digital
From 9 July 2027, every enforcement authority across the EU must accept freight transport information submitted electronically through a certified eFTI platform, under Regulation (EU) 2020/1056. The Netherlands is already building its national eFTI gate. The framework is settled. What is still open is whether your messaging layer is ready before your largest customer asks for it in a tender.
The city is closing in on your fleet.
Twenty Dutch municipalities now operate zero-emission zones for city logistics, with at least ten more scheduled. Access tightens again for Euro 5 vans on 1 January 2027 and closes to all fossil-fuel vans and lorries in 2030. Those zones are enforced by cameras, number plates and exemption registers – which makes compliance a software problem long before it becomes a fleet problem.
Start with one process. Measure it. Then scale.
Bring us the process that slows down your team most. In one session, we will map it, raise the payback, and tell you honestly whether software is the right answer.
Talk to our logistics team!
FAQs
Keep it. This is a layer around your TMS, not a replacement. We integrate with your existing APIs and EDI channels and add the customer-facing and messaging functions a TMS was never built to provide. Prove it on one flow before you commit further.
Standard software is the right answer when your process is standard. In logistics, it rarely is. Your customer mix, your partner dialects, and your service promises are why clients choose you. We provide logistics software development that fits how you work, so your people do not spend the next five years working around a product.
That is the normal starting point. We deliver the project, integrate with what you have, and maintain it afterwards under one agreement. Your team is involved in decisions and access, not in building work.
The process assessment is quick and gives you a ranked list of processes with estimated payback. Building timelines are confirmed after that step against an agreed scope – we do not quote a date before we understand the work. The first release targets one flow, so you get value before the full roll-out.
Logistics software development cost depends on scope, so we price after the assessment, not before. Our service options span fixed price, managed capacity and outcome-based models. The assessment gives you the ROI case in your own numbers.
AROBS is ISO 27001-certified for information security, ISO/IEC 42001-certified for AI solutions, and GDPR-compliant by default. Hosting and data residency are agreed upon with you during discovery.
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