| Criteria | Generic TMS | FollowNet One |
|---|---|---|
| Product focus | Freight and domestic transport | Foreign trade: import, export and Comex |
| BR government portals | Not integrated by default | Siscomex, CEMercante, Siscarga, Radar — with integration |
| DI, DUE, LI, CE-Mercante | Not applicable or expensive customization | Extracted and monitored automatically |
| Demurrage and detention | Not calculated or manual calculation | Automatic calculation with predictive alerts |
| Purchase Order management | Outside standard scope | PO linked to shipment and customs clearance automatically |
| Visibility for the importer | Focus on the carrier, not the importer | Visibility portal configurable by client profile |
| Comex KPI customization | Freight KPIs — not Comex exceptions | BI with over 2,000 Comex-specific fields |
| Implementation and onboarding | Generic — you adapt your process to the TMS | Lean Six Sigma team that maps and configures for your op. |
TMS and foreign trade software solve different problems
A TMS (Transportation Management System) was built for carriers and logistics operators: routing, fleet management, domestic freight. It does that well. What it does not do is foreign trade, because it was not designed for it. Import declarations, export declarations, licenses, cargo manifests, integration with Brazilian government portals, demurrage calculation. All of it is either out of standard scope or require expensive customization that never gets complete. Whoever imports or exports using a generic TMS ends up controlling freight and going blind on the rest of the Comex operation.
A platform designed for end-to-end foreign trade
FollowNet One starts from the importer and exporter problem, not the carrier. Brazilian government portals are already integrated; import and export declarations, licenses and cargo manifests are extracted and monitored automatically; demurrage is calculated with predictive alerts; the Purchase Order is linked to shipment and customs clearance. The importer gets a visibility portal configurable by profile, and KPIs are foreign-trade specific: over 2,000 fields, not the freight indicators of a TMS. Implementation is led by a team that maps and configures for your operation, instead of forcing you to adapt your process to the system.
Before, we had a system that controlled freight but not the operation. FollowNet One connected everything — from the purchase order to customs clearance.
Carolina Póvoa — DSV