Illustrative previewA per-tenant AL extension that adds load planning, LTL/FTL rate shopping,
carrier dispatch, and item/lot-level landed freight cost directly inside your Business Central environment — built and installed for you by ECOSIRE.
What is Transportation Management System (TMS) for Business Central?
A per-tenant AL extension that adds load planning, LTL/FTL rate shopping, carrier dispatch, and item/lot-level landed freight cost directly inside your Business Central environment — built and installed for you by ECOSIRE. Built to order by ECOSIRE for Dynamics 365 BC (build-to-order) — indicative price from $999.00 USD; request a quote for a scoped proposal.
Key Features
Built to order, done for you
No DIY setup — a working app, built, installed and supported by ECOSIRE.
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You order
Start with a one-time build price. We scope it with you at kickoff.
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We build & install
ECOSIRE builds, configures and installs it on your Dynamics 365 Business Central.
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Go live + support
You go live in about one working week, with two weeks of go-live support. Defects in the code we deliver are fixed free of charge.
About this Product
Most shippers run freight planning in spreadsheets and carrier portals that live entirely outside the ERP, so the true landed cost of a sales or purchase order is never known until the invoice arrives. This Transportation Management System closes that gap by living inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as a native AL extension — not a bolt-on portal.
ECOSIRE builds, installs, and supports this as a per-tenant extension deployed straight to your Business Central environment (cloud or on-prem). It is not an instant AppSource download. We scope your carrier mix, freight terms, and rating logic, develop the AL app, install it on a sandbox for UAT, then publish to production and hand over permission sets and documentation.
What it does technically. New AL tables and page extensions add a Freight Order and Load Planning workspace alongside Sales and Purchase documents. Table extensions on the Item Ledger and Value Entry carry freight cost down to the item and lot level, feeding standard BC landed-cost and inventory valuation. Event subscribers on document posting trigger rate requests; an integration layer calls your carrier/LTL rating gateways over the BC REST/OData v4 API or a configured service connector, returning quotes that a carrier-selection routine ranks by cost, route, and transit time. The job queue handles tracking polls and benchmark-vs-actual freight analytics. Optional Dataverse / Power Platform virtual-table sync exposes loads to Power BI and Power Apps for dispatch teams.
Everything respects BC permission sets, the multi-company structure, and your existing posting groups. Because it is your own per-tenant extension, you are never blocked by another vendor's roadmap — change requests go straight to ECOSIRE.
What you get
- Scoping workshop and a written functional spec covering your carriers, lanes, freight terms, and rating gateways
- The compiled per-tenant AL extension (.app) built to your Business Central major version
- Installation on a sandbox environment plus a guided UAT cycle before any production change
- Production publish via the BC admin center / extension management once UAT is signed off
- Configured permission sets, job queue entries, and carrier/lane master data loaded from your rate cards
- Admin and end-user documentation plus a recorded handover walkthrough for dispatchers and finance
Who this is for
Logistics & Dispatch Manager
Plans loads, consolidates shipments, and dispatches carriers daily. Wants rate shopping and a dispatch board inside the ERP instead of juggling carrier portals and spreadsheets.
Supply Chain / Inventory Controller
Needs true landed cost on every receipt and shipment. Values freight allocated to item and lot level so inventory valuation and margin reflect real freight spend.
Finance / Controller
Owns freight cost posting and budget variance. Uses benchmark-vs-actual analytics and clean posting-group integration to control and forecast freight expense.
How Transportation Management System (TMS) for Business Central Compares
| Criterion | ECOSIRE | Custom Build | Competitor | Dynamics 365 Business Central Native |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freight rate shopping (LTL/FTL) inside Business Central documents | Included | Partial support | Partial support | Not included |
| Landed freight cost down to item and lot level in inventory valuation | Included | Partial support | Partial support | Partial support |
| Carrier selection by cost, route, and transit time | Included | Partial support | Included | Not included |
| Benchmark-vs-actual freight analytics | Included | Partial support | Partial support | Not included |
| Built, installed, and supported on your tenant as a per-tenant extension | Included | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Tailored to your exact carrier mix and rating rules | Included | Included | Not included | Not included |
| No dependence on a third-party vendor roadmap for changes | Included | Included | Not included | Included |
| Fixed scoped price with a defined delivery lead time | Included | Not included | Partial support | Not included |
Frequently Asked Questions about Transportation Management System (TMS) for Business Central
Is this an instant AppSource download?
No. This is a build-to-order per-tenant AL extension. ECOSIRE scopes your carrier mix and rating logic, develops the app against your Business Central major version, installs it on a sandbox for UAT, then publishes to your production tenant. You receive your own extension — not a shared marketplace listing.
What is the delivery lead time?
Typical delivery is one working week from a signed functional spec, depending on how many carrier gateways and rating rules are in scope. We confirm a dated milestone plan during scoping: spec sign-off, sandbox install and UAT, then production publish. The 799 USD price covers the standard build defined in the spec; integrations to unusual or undocumented carrier APIs are quoted separately.
How do ongoing support and updates work?
Because it is your own per-tenant extension, ECOSIRE provides bug fixes and recompiles it against new Business Central major releases (Microsoft ships two a year) under a support agreement. Change requests — new carriers, new lanes, new analytics — go straight to us with no third-party roadmap to wait on. We test each recompile on your sandbox before touching production.
Will it work with our existing Business Central setup and permissions?
Yes. The extension uses table and page extensions rather than replacing standard objects, so it coexists with your other apps. It respects your existing posting groups, multi-company structure, and permission sets, and we add dedicated TMS permission sets so each role sees only its scoped data.
Can dispatchers and finance see freight data outside Business Central?
Optionally, yes. We can expose loads and shipment status through Dataverse virtual tables so a dispatch board runs in Power Apps and analytics live in Power BI, while the system of record stays in Business Central. Data is read through the BC OData/REST API, so there is no duplicate freight database to reconcile.
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A per-tenant AL extension that adds load planning, LTL/FTL rate shopping, carrier dispatch, and item/lot-level landed freight cost directly inside your Business Central environment — built and installed for you by ECOSIRE.
- Freight Order and Load Planning workspace delivered as AL page extensions alongside native Sales and Purchase documents
- Real-time LTL and FTL rate shopping via event subscribers that call your carrier rating gateways over the BC REST/OData v4 API
- Carrier selection routine that ranks returned quotes by total cost, route, and transit time
- Multi-stage forwarding and freight order planning with consolidation across orders and shipments