Transport and logistics — warehouse, trip and fleet in one database

Freight and forwarding: a ready-made TMS is not described in the documentation; the system is assembled from standard apps

A transport company sells a service: transport, freight forwarding, storage. The Odoo documentation does not describe a separate transport management app (TMS) for a carrier, and no freight package appeared in the industry catalog (25 October 2026). There is only a 3PL package: the Odoo S.A. description lists tracking of inbound and outbound shipments, storage fees and service billing, tracking of transport and consignment, and a customer portal. The package requires Enterprise and is available on Odoo Online, Odoo.sh and your own server; according to the Apps Store dependency list, it relies on the Inventory, Purchase, Sales, Quality, Subscriptions, Website, Studio, CRM, Invoicing, Documents, Employees, Knowledge and Manufacturing apps. For this reason a carrier’s business is assembled from standard apps: the order in Sales, the trip in Project or Planning, the vehicle and driver in Fleet, the subcontracted carrier in Purchase, the invoice in Accounting.

Odoo 20 Inventory has load dispatching, but it is designed for a company delivering its own goods in its own vehicles. Products are grouped by carrier, a batch is assigned to a loading dock, and the vehicle’s capacity (maximum weight and volume) is checked. This requires the Fleet app, a Mapbox connection, and weight and volume on every product. The “Map” button appears only on transfers in the “In progress” status.

For the waybill, Odoo 20 fills in the CMR form from the delivery document with the available data and prints it; missing fields are entered manually. In a batch, a separate CMR is produced for each delivery. The electronic waybill and the trip sheet used in Uzbekistan (the driver’s document with trip details) are not mentioned in Odoo’s ready-made documents: they are covered below together with Uzbekistan’s requirements.

• Trip schedule: vehicle and driver shifts in Planning; in Odoo 20, Mapbox shows travel time on the Gantt chart: about Planning
• The subcontracted carrier’s services are handled through a purchase order, and the trip’s costs and revenue go to a single analytic account
• The tax base under intermediation and freight forwarding contracts follows a separate rule (Article 250 of the Tax Code): the accountant confirms it in writing
• If the customer’s cargo is stored in the company’s warehouse, 3PL billing: warehouse page
• GPS tracking (telematics) is not described in the Odoo documentation: the connection is assessed