Annex Orbis

Warehouse (WMS) · transport

The TMS comes built in. Every truck, in and out.

Warehouse comes with Routes, the ANNEX ORBIS TMS. Build and dispatch loads on your own trucks from the same sign-in as your stock, send each customer a link to follow the delivery, and open the links your carriers send you.

Load builder and dispatch boardAvailableETAs, tracking links and geofence arrival timesIn testingFreight BeaconComing
Talk to usWhere it works
Warehouse runs on the TMS, with Workforce for your crew and Accounting for the books: one platform, one sign-in.

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Where it works

The office on the web. The stop in the driver’s apps. The link on any phone.

The WMS and the TMS run in the web app on a computer, or in a tablet browser 768 px and wider. The driver’s tablet and phone apps record each stop. A tracking link opens in any browser, phones included.

Transport, surface by surface

  • WebAvailableThe load builder and dispatch board. Tracking links, proof choices, sea BOLs and the beacon portal are in testing. A computer, or a tablet browser 768 px and wider.
  • TabletIn testingThe driver’s cab tablet records arrival and departure at each stop and relays the beacon. Its Warehouse area is a read-only list. Debug builds on company devices.
  • MobileIn testingThe driver’s phone app records the proof each stop asks for, as text, and relays the beacon. A phone’s browser opens tracking links, not the WMS.

Your own trucks · TMS

Your trucks run on the same system as your stock.

Routes is the same TMS we build for trucking companies. Build a load out of your building with every stop’s appointment and paperwork numbers, give it a truck and a driver, and run the day from one board.

Available

  • Stops and appointmentsA window, an exact time or first come, first served, in the stop’s own time zone.
  • References on every stopUp to five per stop: BOL, PO, pickup and delivery numbers, or your own.
  • One board for the dayEvery load with its truck, its driver and its stops in order.

See the whole TMS

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Tracking links

See the carrier’s truck before it reaches your door.

A carrier on ANNEX ORBIS sends your receiving office a link to its stop at your building. Confirm a six-digit code once, then follow the ETA, the appointment and every arrival and departure on the way. Your own loads send your customers the same link.

In testing

  • A six-digit code to the email address the link was sent to, before anything shows
  • The truck on a map only while it’s on its way to your stop
  • The driver’s estimate beside the automatic one, with a Late flag
  • Opens in any browser, phones included
  • Updates by email: on the way, arrived, done, running lateComing
  • The BOL and packing list on the link, when the carrier shares themComing
  • Links, codes and updates by text to a US mobile numberComing
  • Connections between companies: an approved list of your carriers, and their inbound loads without a link each timeComing

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Proof at the stop

The seal number is on the load before the truck pulls out.

Pick what each stop needs from a catalogue — a seal number, the BOL signer, a piece or pallet count — or apply a pack of them at once. The driver records each one in the phone app at the stop, and the stop’s geofence notes when the truck arrived and when it left.

  • Proof choices per stop: seal number, BOL signer, piece or pallet count, recorded as textIn testing
  • Requirement packs, the stricter rule kept when two overlapIn testing
  • Arrival and departure times from each stop’s geofenceIn testing
  • Photos of the seal, the BOL and the signed PODComing
  • Detention billed from the geofence timesComing

The dock and yard board

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Ocean freight

Containers on the water, handed to receiving.

Import the BOLs you expect from a CSV, or track one by hand. Each milestone — vessel arrived, berthed, cargo discharged, released, picked up — is kept with its source and time, and the shipment is handed to your building and its onward route.

In testing

  • Master and house BOLs and sea waybills, from reviewed CSV rows
  • Every milestone with its source; a correction carries a reason and keeps the first record
  • Saved views per customer, such as all of Bluebonnet Foods’ BOLs
  • A hand-off to your building and the onward route, matched to an open receipt when there is one

Vessel positions are sourced and dated. There is no live vessel feed.

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Freight Beacon

A tracker packed with the freight.

The Freight Beacon rides in its own box inside a pallet and reports where the freight is, in the same portal as your trucks. Today a development unit wakes every 15 minutes and hands its position to a nearby driver’s phone or tablet app over Bluetooth.

  • Freight Beacon portal: map, nearest town, battery, connectionIn testing
  • Development unit relaying its position through the phone and tablet appsIn testing
  • The Freight Beacon: its own cellular, its own box with a prepaid return labelComing

Meet the Freight Beacon

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Status, plainly

What’s ready in transport, what’s in testing, what’s coming.

Available is live in production. In testing is built and running, not yet proven with real customers. Coming is planned or partly built.

Your own trucks (TMS)

  • Multi-stop load builder: appointments, references, freightAvailable
  • Dispatch to a truck and a driverAvailable
  • Dispatch board: every load, its stops in orderAvailable
  • ETAs on the board from the driver’s hoursIn testing

Visibility

  • Tracking links verified by a code: ETA, map while on the way, appointment, timelineIn testing
  • Arrival and departure times from each stop’s geofenceIn testing
  • Documents on a tracking link: the BOL and packing listComing
  • Tracking links, codes and updates by text messageComing
  • Connections between companies: your carriers’ inbound loads without a link each timeComing

Proof at the stop

  • Seal number, BOL signer and pallet count, as text, chosen per stopIn testing
  • Requirement packs, the stricter rule keptIn testing
  • Photos of seals, BOLs and signed PODsComing
  • Carrier detention billed from the geofence timesComing

Ocean and the Freight Beacon

  • Inbound ocean BOLs: CSV import, sourced milestones, hand-off to your buildingIn testing
  • Freight Beacon portal with a development unit relaying through the appsIn testing
  • The Freight Beacon productComing

Not offered

  • A beacon arrival alert at your dock
  • EDI
  • A live vessel-position feed

FAQ

Questions warehouses ask

Do we have to turn on the TMS?

Yes. Warehouse comes with Routes, the ANNEX ORBIS TMS, and Routes brings Workforce and Accounting with it. You don’t need trucks of your own: tracking links, sea BOLs and the Freight Beacon portal live there too. If you run trucks, the load builder and dispatch board are available today.

Can we see our carriers’ trucks coming in?

Yes, when the carrier works on ANNEX ORBIS and sends your receiving office a tracking link to its stop: the ETA, the appointment and the truck on a map while it’s on its way. Tracking links are in testing. Connections between companies are coming, and will show an approved carrier’s inbound loads without a link each time.

Can our receiving team open it on a phone?

A tracking link, yes: it opens in any phone browser after the code check. The WMS and the TMS don’t open in a phone’s browser; use a computer or a tablet browser 768 px and wider. The phone and tablet apps are debug builds on company devices today.

Do drivers send photos of the seal and the signed BOL?

Photos of the seal, the BOL and the signed POD are coming. Today, in testing, the driver records the seal number, the BOL signer and the pallet count as text in the phone app, and each one is kept on the stop.

Can our trucks bill detention when a customer’s dock keeps them waiting?

Detention billing is coming: worked out from each stop’s geofence times, at each place’s free time and your rate. The geofence arrival and departure times it starts from are in testing today.

Is the vessel position live?

No. Sea tracking keeps each BOL’s milestones and any vessel position with its source and time, from your CSV import or entered by hand. There is no live vessel feed, and we don’t take EDI.

Keep exploring

The rest of the warehouse

Run the warehouse and the trucks on one system.

Tell us how your dock and floor work today. We’ll walk you through the WMS and the TMS on your own building.

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