Transportation Is Becoming Computational

A transportation plan can be optimal at 8:00 a.m. and obsolete by 8:20.
A driver calls out. Traffic changes. A customer appointment moves. A warehouse falls behind. A carrier rejects a tender. A shipment that looked routine becomes urgent. Fuel, weather, capacity, and order priorities continue changing after the plan has been released. This is the architectural consequence of the category shift described in The TMS Is Expanding Beyond Planning: transportation software increasingly participates c