TMS + WMS
An LTL TMS and a warehouse system, in one login
Most TMS platforms stop at the dock door, and most WMS platforms start there. LanePilot covers both: quote and book outbound LTL freight on your own connected carrier accounts, and receive, store and count inbound freight at your own dock, with billing recovery running on each side. Built for small to mid-sized shippers who run their own receiving dock and do not have a separate integration budget to connect two systems that were never built to talk to each other.
Before, during, after
The same platform, both directions: freight going out and freight coming in.
Before
One system holds both directions
Your connected carrier accounts are set up for outbound quoting and booking. Your vendors and their preferred carriers are set up for inbound, in the Receiving Guide, so a shipment on the wrong carrier gets flagged before it is checked in.
During
Freight moves, and the dock runs
Outbound: quote across your carriers, book, and the Bill of Lading generates from the quote. Inbound: the same building's dock queue receives against the purchase order, checks quantities line by line, and captures anything over, short or damaged with a reason.
After
Recovery, and stock, land in the same place
Outbound invoices are checked automatically against the quote they were booked at, and a dispute letter is drafted when something does not match. Inbound discrepancies draft a vendor chargeback letter. Good stock gets a digital bin location and shows up in inventory, ready for a cycle count.
One dock, one morning
A shipper books an outbound LTL shipment to a customer, quoting across their connected carriers and generating the Bill of Lading from the accepted quote. That same morning, an inbound purchase order arrives at their own dock: the receiver checks it in, marks one damaged carton with a reason, and puts the rest away in a digital bin location on the warehouse map. Three weeks later the outbound carrier invoice comes in and is checked automatically against the quote it was booked at; a billing error there drafts a dispute letter. The damaged carton from the inbound PO already drafted its own vendor chargeback letter the day it was found. Two different kinds of recovery, one system, instead of a TMS for the outbound lane and a separate tool for the dock that does not talk to it.
What is built, what needs Warehouse, what is not built
The bridge story only holds up if every claim on it is checked. Here is the line, stated plainly rather than implied.
Built today
- Outbound: plain-English rate quoting across your connected carrier accounts, one-click booking, auto-generated Bill of Lading, and shipment tracking
- Outbound invoice audit against the original quote on every plan, including Free, with a dispute letter drafted from the finding
- Inbound: receiving against the purchase order, dock queue, OS&D capture with a reason, and vendor chargeback letters drafted from the discrepancy
- Warehouse map with digital bin locations, shown as an isometric layout you can view from above, not a first-person 3D walkthrough
- Inventory tied to receiving and purchase orders, with cycle counts, reason-coded adjustments, and an approval step above a threshold
- PO-to-invoice reconciliation today compares the invoice total against the PO total within 5 percent, a total check, not a line-by-line match
Needs Warehouse
- Everything on the inbound and warehouse side, receiving, the dock queue, bin locations, inventory and cycle counts, sits behind LanePilot Warehouse, $119 a month, its own line item, additive to any plan including Free and never a replacement for one
- Dock seats, $25 a month each, only govern how many dock-only workers can log in on their own account; any existing role can receive freight without one
Not built, do not assume it
- LanePilot does not audit inbound freight invoices automatically. Cost on inbound freight is entered manually, and inbound recovery runs through OS&D capture and vendor chargebacks, not an automated invoice comparison
- Pickup tendering is not automatic across all carriers: tendering defaults to test mode, and live tender adapters exist for a small number of carriers today. Booking and the Bill of Lading are built; do not read that as automatic pickup scheduling everywhere
- No pick-and-pack workflow and no wave picking yet
- No serial number tracking
- Inventory valuation is a deliberate decision, not a gap: LanePilot will not price your inventory for you
What LanePilot does not claim to replace
The seam between freight and warehouse is the whole point, but it has edges, and these are them.
A multi-mode TMS
LanePilot covers LTL. If truckload, intermodal, parcel, ocean or air is a meaningful share of your freight, those modes are not covered here.
An enterprise WMS
Wave picking, pick-and-pack workflows and serial-level tracking are not built. A large, multi-warehouse operation with those requirements needs a dedicated WMS.
An ERP
LanePilot is not a general ledger or a financial system of record. Inventory valuation is deliberately not built for that reason.
Go deeper on either side
OS&D receiving covers catching over, short and damaged inbound shipments and drafting the vendor chargeback letter.
How LanePilot works walks through outbound quoting, booking, invoice audit and dispute letters in detail.
LanePilot vs a traditional TMS compares the booking-only category to a system that also audits and receives.
Pricing has the plan breakdown and the LanePilot Warehouse line item on its own row.
Common questions
Is LanePilot a TMS or a WMS?
Both, in the sense that matters for a small shipper: one login for quoting and booking outbound LTL freight, and for receiving, storing and counting the freight that comes in the other direction. It is not a full enterprise WMS (no wave picking, no pick-and-pack workflow yet) and not a multi-mode TMS (LTL only).
Do I need to buy both the TMS and the warehouse features?
No. The freight side, quoting, booking, tracking and invoice audit, is on every plan, including the permanent free plan (5 quote credits and 7 invoice audits a month, on two separate meters). The receiving and warehouse side is LanePilot Warehouse, a standalone $119 a month product, additive to any plan and never required to use the freight side.
Is the warehouse map a real 3D view?
It is an isometric layout, a 2.5D view you can look at from above with your zones, racks and bins drawn in, rather than a first-person or fully rotatable 3D scene.
Does LanePilot audit invoices on freight I receive, the way it does on freight I ship?
Not yet, and this page will not claim otherwise. The automatic invoice audit engine runs on outbound freight today. On inbound freight, recovery runs through OS&D discrepancy capture at receiving and the vendor chargeback letter that gets drafted from it.
See the audit side working first
Send a real outbound freight invoice and the original quote for that shipment, and LanePilot shows you what it finds. Free, no account needed. The receiving and warehouse side opens up when sign-ups reopen at launch.
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