Operating modelAgency
Freight forwarder / 3PL
This is you if you move goods you do not own, and answer to your clients' customers
as well as your own.
The hard problem is not tracking — it is separation. You need a view across every client
you act for, while each of those clients sees only their own consignments and cannot infer
anything about the others. Most platforms solve one half and quietly break the other.
Cargovate treats the principal as the owner of its own operational record from the first
row written. Your cross-client reporting stays yours. A departing client leaves with a
complete history and takes none of anyone else's.
- Starts with
- Core, Custody, Compliance, Import, Agency
- Often adds
- Anchoring, for consignments that end up contested
Operating model
Shipper
This is you if you own the freight and need one account of where it is and who is
holding it.
Your goods cross several carriers, each with its own portal, format and definition of
"delivered". The cost is not the tracking — it is the reconciliation afterwards, and the
fact that a disputed consignment takes days to reconstruct from six sources.
- Starts with
- Core, Custody, Compliance, Import
- Often adds
- Finance, to put a number on what the reconciliation costs
Operating modelManufacturing
Manufacturer
This is you if you make goods and ship them, and you are asked to prove how they
were built as well as where they went.
The gap is usually between the production record and the shipping record — two systems
describing the same physical object that do not reconcile. Cargovate covers both, and
the serial number is what joins them: a unit's build history, the material consumed into
it and the evidence behind each operation stay attached when it becomes freight.
Production is a gate rather than a status field. A unit is not released while an
operation is incomplete, evidence is missing, a nonconformance is open, or a contract
flow-down is unresolved — and an operation will not complete on an uncertified operator
or an out-of-calibration tool.
- Starts with
- Core, Compliance, Import, Warehouse, Manufacturing
- Includes
- A customer portal — your clients submit and track their own orders, and see nothing else
- Often adds
- Anchoring, where provenance is a contractual requirement
Operating modelMaintenance
Fleet operator
This is you if you run vehicles rather than consignments, and downtime is the cost
that actually matters.
The unit of work is the asset, not the shipment. Service intervals, due dates and history
per vehicle, held so that a maintenance record is a defensible document rather than a
folder of receipts.
- Starts with
- Core, Maintenance
Operating modelWarehouse
Warehouse operator
This is you if you hold other people's goods and must be able to prove the
condition you held them in.
Custody and storage are the same question asked twice: who was responsible, and for how
long. Disputes here are almost always about the boundary — the moment responsibility
passed to or from you.
- Starts with
- Core, Custody, Warehouse
- Often adds
- Anchoring, where the handover boundary is disputed
Not listed
Something else
Capabilities are licensed individually, so an operating model that isn't listed here is a
configuration question rather than a bespoke build. If your operation doesn't map cleanly
onto any of the five above, that is worth a conversation rather than a compromise.
