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An open-source TMS: the machine room must be open

The Loadstar Trade press Published 10th August 2026 UK

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<p>Today we have an op-ed by Newton Davis, co-founder of Janus, a fintech focused on shipment-level financial clarity for ocean &#38; air freight forwarders, and Raoul Wintjes, head of international road haulage, air freight &#38; digitalisation at DSLV, the Association for Freight Forwarding and Logistics Germany.<br /> Somewhere inside every freight forwarder’s operation is a system that almost no one outside the industry has heard of – and that almost no one ...</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theloadstar.com/an-open-source-tms-the-machine-room-must-be-open/">An open-source TMS: the machine room must be open</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theloadstar.com">The Loadstar</a>.</p>

Publication
The Loadstar · Trade Publication
Published
10th August 2026
Original report
theloadstar.com

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography
UK
Organisations
None identified
Collected
10th August 2026 · 10:21

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (25.5/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points).

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Impact-Scale Specificity