Wakeo

Wakeo is built around the problem of overseas freight going dark between port of loading and warehouse. It pulls events from carriers, forwarders and third-party sources into one control tower and recalculates arrival times as new data comes in.

The French company register lists WAKEO as a SAS created in July 2016. Its site describes products for shippers, freight forwarders and carriers, and says it has taken over the Veroo software that was developed at LKW WALTER.

Tracking and ETAs

The tracking module covers sea, air, road, rail and parcel in one view. Wakeo says its arrival times come from in-house machine learning models fed with hundreds of data points, and the control tower is meant to show only the shipments with exceptions.

Geofences and corridors can be drawn around warehouses and terminals so that a deviation from the planned route raises an alert, delivered by email or SMS.

Routes, analytics and carbon

Trusted Routes scores the reliability of trade lanes and shows disruption alerts together with CO2 and freight rate data. Intelligent Analytics compares carrier performance and points at bottlenecks, and a separate calculator reports multimodal emissions.

Customers of a forwarder can receive alerts under the forwarder's own brand, which is a feature aimed squarely at logistics service providers.

Integration

Wakeo connects to a TMS or ERP through APIs and stores transport documents beside each shipment. Access can be split by geography, entity or customer. A partnership with the sensor maker Tive adds temperature and humidity readings to the alert rules.

Limitations to Consider

Pricing and the hosting region are not published on the pages reviewed, so both need a sales conversation. The business impact figures on the site, such as up to 50 percent lower detention and demurrage costs, are vendor statements from customer cases. Wakeo is a visibility layer and not a TMS, so Shippeo and Alpega are the comparison points for what you still plan elsewhere.

Who Should Use Wakeo

Importers, exporters and forwarders in Europe that move containers and air freight across several carriers and want predicted arrival times, lane reliability and emission figures in one platform.