Warehouse Scheduling Software for Manufacturers

When trucks arrive late, out of sequence, or all at once — your whole facility feels it. LoadingCalendar gives manufacturers precise dock appointment scheduling for every inbound and outbound movement, from €99/month.

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Warehouse Scheduling Software for Manufacturers

Why manufacturers lose hours at the dock every day

Manual dock coordination creates a chain of problems that starts at your loading bay and ends on the production floor.

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JIT deliveries arrive out of sequence

When inbound raw materials don't arrive in the right order, your production line waits. Three trucks show up at once at 8am; nothing arrives between 11am and 2pm. Your dock team is overwhelmed, then idle — and the floor pays for it.

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Shift changeovers leave the dock blind

Your day shift leaves and context about pending arrivals, delayed trucks, and partially received orders walks out with them. The night shift starts blind — doesn't know a carrier rescheduled to 18:30 — and the raw materials needed for the overnight production run sit in a trailer in the yard until morning.

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Outbound shipments miss their windows

When inbound congestion blocks dock doors, outbound trucks wait. Missed carrier pickup windows mean OTIF failures, customer penalties, and the kind of freight rate conversations no one wants to have at contract renewal time.

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No visibility into what's arriving — or when

Without a live dock calendar, your receiving team prepares for the day based on guesswork. The right forklift isn't staged. The right dock door isn't clear. Every unannounced truck arrival triggers a scramble that erodes efficiency — and morale.

Simple by design

Up and running in three steps

No IT project. No implementation consultant. No training weeks. Your team books the first appointment on day one.

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Create your docks

Add your dock doors, set operating hours, and define how long each loading type takes. Takes two minutes.

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Share your booking link

Every carrier gets a link to your branded portal. They see only available slots and book without calling anyone.

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Your calendar runs itself

Appointments appear automatically. Your team gets notified of changes. No spreadsheets, no phone tag.

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Why LoadingCalendar

Built for operations teams, not IT departments

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€99/month flat rate

Unlimited users, unlimited docks, unlimited carriers. No per-seat fees, no setup costs, no surprise invoices at the end of the month.

2-minute setup

Create your warehouse, add dock doors, set hours. Your first booking link is ready before your coffee gets cold. No onboarding call required.

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Branded carrier portal

Carriers book themselves through your white-labelled portal. No account creation, no passwords — just a magic link and a calendar showing real availability.

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Touchscreen-ready

Works perfectly on the dock tablet or wall-mounted screen. Your team can check and update the schedule from the dock floor, not just the office.

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Real-time notifications

The moment a carrier books, changes, or cancels — your team knows. No more being caught off guard by an early arrival or a last-minute reschedule.

No training required

Your team figures it out in minutes. Carriers figure it out in seconds. No manual, no onboarding call, no IT ticket. If you can use a calendar, you can use LoadingCalendar.

Dock Scheduling Software ROI Calculator

See how much your warehouse can save by replacing manual scheduling with automated dock management.

Your warehouse details

Trucks per day 30
Hours/week on scheduling 15 hrs
Coordinator hourly rate €31
Monthly detention fees €2 000
Methodology & Sources: 70% labor reduction via carrier self-scheduling. 50% detention reduction from pre-confirmed slots (ATRI 2024: $15.1B industry cost, 39.3% of stops involve detention). 25% overtime reduction by spreading arrivals evenly across operating hours. Overtime estimate assumes $2/truck/day in congestion-related costs.
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LoadingCalendar cost -€1 188/yr (€99/mo)
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Cargoson team

100+ years of experience in logistics

LoadingCalendar is a product from Cargoson team who have a combined 100+ years of experience working in logistics. We understand the troubles of warehouse management - endless phone calls and emails, loading delays, detention fees and lack of visibility. This is why we created LoadingCalendar - powerful warehouse scheduling system to solve your problems.

Frequently asked questions

Each dock door has fully independent settings — its own name, operating hours, loading duration types, and booking rules. You can name and organise doors however fits your operation (e.g. "Inbound Raw Materials", "Outbound Finished Goods") with different slot lengths, lead times, and weekend availability. All appointments from every door appear in a single unified calendar view.

Yes via our REST API. Your ERP or WMS can create, update, and query dock appointments programmatically — so a confirmed purchase order or production schedule can automatically generate a dock booking without any manual step. Full API documentation is available at https://loadingcalendar.eu.apidog.com/.

Most manufacturing facilities are fully set up in under 10 minutes. You create your warehouse, add dock doors with their operating hours, optionally define loading duration types (e.g. "Full Truck Inbound — 90 min"), and share your booking portal link with carriers. Your first appointment can be on the calendar the same day you sign up.

No — that's a deliberate design choice. Carriers visit your branded portal link, verify their email with a magic link (no password), and see only genuinely available time slots. They enter their details, pick a slot, and it appears on your calendar. No carrier registration, no admin overhead on your side.

Everything. Unlimited users, unlimited dock doors, unlimited carriers, unlimited bookings. There are no per-seat fees, no setup costs, and no carrier access charges. The 14-day free trial includes full access with no credit card required.

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