The cloud transport management system that puts every party in the road-freight chain - shippers, carriers, drivers and consignees - on a single shared workflow.
Singapore HQ, founded 2013 in China · Known in Chinese as 运去哪, roughly "where's it going?" - a fitting name for a company built on real-time shipment visibility.
Move a truckload of goods across Asia and you quickly discover how much of the work still happens by phone call, spreadsheet and fax. A shipper books a carrier. The carrier calls a driver. The driver texts an address. The consignee waits at a dock with no idea when the truck will arrive. Every handoff is a place where information - and money - leaks out.
oTMS Transport Technologies was built to close those gaps. It is an enterprise SaaS transport management system, or TMS, that connects shippers, third-party logistics providers, carriers, drivers and consignees on one shared cloud workflow. Instead of a chain of disconnected phone calls, everyone looks at the same live record of the same shipment.
Founded in 2013 by former DHL and Maersk executive Mirek Dabrowski and co-founder David Duan, the company started in China - where fragmented, multi-carrier road freight made the problem acute - and has since made Singapore its headquarters, serving clients across Singapore, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
The tagline is plain: "Making Transport Smart." In practice that means transport order management, planning and allocation, real-time track and trace, freight billing, audit and settlement, dock scheduling, and even a live dashboard for greenhouse-gas emissions - all in one platform.
oTMS's clients are enterprise shippers - retailers, consumer-products companies and manufacturers - along with the logistics service providers that move their goods. More than 100 such organizations across Asia Pacific run on the platform, connected to a network of roughly 9,000 carriers and 600,000 drivers.
The problems they bring are familiar to anyone who has run a transport desk. Where is my shipment right now? Which carrier should I allocate this load to, and at what rate? Did the freight invoice match what we actually agreed, or did a handful of ad-hoc fees quietly inflate it? Why is a queue of trucks idling at the dock?
oTMS answers each with a feature rather than a phone call. Real-time track and trace, backed by GPS connectivity and geo-fencing, shows where goods are. Rate and carrier management standardizes allocation. Freight audit and settlement catches the spend leakage that erodes margins. A dock management system schedules gate slots to cut the queue.
The through-line is that oTMS is shipper-centric: it starts from the party that owns the goods and works outward, rather than treating the driver or carrier as the center of the system.
The core transport management system: order management, planning, allocation, real-time track & trace, freight billing, audit and settlement.
Dock scheduling and gate management to cut queueing, manage slots and improve yard throughput.
Shipment execution on the road with GPS connectivity, geo-fencing and proof of delivery.
Carbon-footprint and greenhouse-gas tracking across transport operations, reported next to freight cost.
Multi-protocol APIs and 2-way ERP integration linking shippers, 3PLs, carriers and IoT/temperature devices.
Real-time delivery notifications and shipment visibility for consignees and end clients.
Global TMS vendors like Blue Yonder, Oracle and SAP were largely built for Western, contract-heavy logistics. oTMS was built for Asia's reality - fragmented, multi-carrier, coordinated by phone - and grew up connecting a very large driver and carrier network rather than a handful of contracted lanes. Its four stated pillars map to where shippers feel the most pain.
oTMS runs a multi-tenant, B2B SaaS model. Enterprise shippers, retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers license the cloud platform on subscription, alongside connectivity, integration and consulting services. The network effect - a large connected pool of carriers and drivers - makes the shipper-centric TMS more valuable as more parties join.
That model attracted serious capital. In September 2016, oTMS raised a $25 million Series B to build what it called China's open transport platform, led by Kuaidi Dache founder Chen Weixing, with Baidu, Chengwei Capital and Matrix Partners China participating. In December 2018 it completed a Series C1 strategic round from China Merchants Venture Capital, endorsing its "SaaS TMS + Transportation Control Tower" strategy. That year, transactions on the platform exceeded 100 million shipments worth more than RMB 10 billion in freight.
| Round | Amount | Date | Key Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | $25M | Sep 2016 | Chen Weixing, Baidu, Chengwei Capital, Matrix Partners China |
| Series C1 | Undisclosed | Dec 2018 | China Merchants Venture Capital (CMVC) |
Established as the creator of a SaaS-mode transportation management platform in China.
Raises funding to build China's open transport platform, backed by Baidu, Matrix Partners China and Chengwei Capital.
Completes strategic financing from China Merchants Venture Capital while surpassing 100 million shipments worth over RMB 10 billion in a single year.
Repositions around a Singapore HQ as APAC's enterprise SaaS TMS with oneTMS, dock management and emissions tracking.
CEO and co-founder Mirek Dabrowski did not arrive at logistics software from a garage. He spent more than 18 years inside the industry he now sells to - starting as a management trainee at Maersk in China in 2000, rising to Vice President of Greater China at DHL, and later serving as General Manager at DSV China. He co-founded oTMS with David Duan.
That operator's background shapes the product. oTMS pairs people who have run real transport networks with software and data engineers, an ISO 27001-aligned security posture, and a team of roughly 130 across Singapore and China. The result is a platform designed by people who have felt the pain of a delayed truck and a mismatched freight invoice firsthand.
The TMS market is crowded at the top by global suites - Blue Yonder (formerly JDA, an oTMS collaborator), Oracle Transportation Management and SAP TM - and at the visibility layer by players like project44, FourKites and Transporeon. oTMS competes on regional depth: it is purpose-built for Asian road freight and its fragmented carrier base, a market those global suites often serve less natively.
Its most persistent competitor may be the status quo - the spreadsheets, phone calls and in-house tools that still coordinate a large share of Asian trucking. oTMS's bet, borne out by 700 million-plus shipments, is that a single shared workflow beats a thousand disconnected calls.
It provides an enterprise SaaS transport management system that connects shippers, logistics providers, carriers, drivers and consignees on one workflow for planning, execution, real-time visibility, freight audit and settlement.
oTMS was founded in 2013 by Mirek Dabrowski (CEO) and David Duan. Dabrowski previously held senior roles at Maersk, DHL and DSV.
Around 130 employees, 100+ enterprise clients, and 700M+ shipments processed while connecting roughly 9,000 carriers and 600,000 drivers across Asia Pacific.
A $25M Series B in 2016 and a Series C1 strategic round from China Merchants Venture Capital in 2018.
Headquartered in Singapore with operations in China and coverage across Singapore, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.