Transport Execution

Order & Consignment Management

Capture, validate, and orchestrate freight orders end to end

Manage customer orders and consignments with structured parties, cargo, service levels, and lifecycle controls that feed planning and billing.

Single

Order of record

Multi-mode

Cargo attributes

Full

Status audit trail

The challenge

Why this breaks without a TMS

Orders arrive by email, EDI, portal, and phone. Without a single order of record, planning, rating, and settlement break before the truck moves.

The ZingTMS approach

How we solve it

ZingTMS centralizes order and consignment management with enforced statuses, multi-party roles, mode-aware attributes, and links to shipments, loads, documents, and invoices.

What you can do

Order & Consignment Management is designed for daily freight operations - not slideware checklists.

Create and amend orders with shipper, consignee, bill-to, and notify parties

Capture cargo lines, packaging, dimensions, hazardous flags, and temperature needs

Apply service levels, Incoterms, and requested pickup/delivery windows

Split, consolidate, or reassign consignments into shipments

Enforce lifecycle transitions with role-based permissions

Attach documents, notes, and requirements at order level

Business benefits

Outcomes procurement, ops, and finance leaders use to justify the platform.

  • One commercial and operational source of truth per consignment
  • Support FTL, LTL, air, ocean, rail, and express on the same order model
  • Reduce rekeying between sales, ops, and finance
  • Preserve full change history for customer disputes and audits

Typical use cases

Freight forwarders converting booking requests into executable consignments

Shippers standardizing plant shipping instructions across regions

3PLs managing multi-customer order books in one tenant

See Order & Consignment Management on your freight flows

We will walk through configuration, integrations, and the operating model that fits your team.

Frequently asked questions

Straight answers for operations, IT, and finance evaluators.

Can one order create multiple shipments?+

Yes. Orders can be split across shipments and legs while retaining commercial linkage for billing and tracking.

Does order management support hazardous and cold-chain freight?+

Orders capture hazmat, DGR, and temperature requirements that flow into planning, documents, and compliance checks.

How do portal bookings enter the system?+

Customer portal and API/EDI bookings create the same order entities used by operations teams.

Ready to modernize this workflow?

Order & Consignment Management runs as part of the full ZingTMS platform - white-label, multi-tenant, and integration-ready.