Camunda

Every logistics process was built for humans. Not for handling exceptions at AI speed.

Camunda turns delayed shipments, customs holds, and system breakdowns into resolved exceptions — not just flagged alerts. Coordinate AI, people, and the systems you already run, with a human in control whenever it matters.

We are now always able to provide information when we receive purchasing inquiries. Whether it's the price structure, the batch situation, the transport systems or the times, Camunda is particularly helpful for carrying out an analysis at the touch of a button.

Michael Eckert, HiPPS application manager at DB Cargo

Trusted by innovators in supply chain & logistics

  • DHL
  • AEB
  • Latitude
  • La Poste
  • Lufthansa
  • Kuehne+Nagel
  • FedEx

The core capability: Exception Handling

When a shipment is delayed, a customs check flags a hold, or a system update fails — Camunda decides what happens next. AI reads the situation, your rules govern what it's allowed to do, and a person steps in only when it matters.

Where this shows up:

  • Dynamic Fulfillment and Real-Time Routing

    Respond instantly to inventory shifts, order spikes, or disruptions by connecting AI signals, system data, and human decisions into one adaptive execution layer.

  • Frictionless Returns and Reverse Flows

    Handle returns with the same speed as outbound flows by validating claims, triggering pickups, and syncing inventory updates without delay.

  • Automated Compliance in Global Movement

    Mitigate regulatory risk by embedding documentation, classification, and customs checks into every shipment with AI detecting changes and triggering resolution in real time.

  • Partner-Driven Supply Chain Coordination

    Keep 3PLs, carriers, and fulfillment nodes aligned with internal systems by automating handoffs, triggering alerts, and eliminating blind spots across the chain.

Rethink complex, high-stakes logistics work with agentic orchestration

Deploy AI agents that keep freight moving with guardrails and an airtight audit trail.

  • Build and deploy AI agents

    Rapidly create enterprise-grade agents with guardrails and an airtight audit trail.

  • Coordinate agents and systems

    Blend deterministic and dynamic actions to automate complex, end-to-end freight journeys.

  • Transform valuable processes

    Bring AI into core exception handling, routing, and customs processes to reinvent knowledge work in a unified platform.

Logistics runs on hundreds of partners. Intelligence can't be siloed.

No single team owns the end-to-end shipment. Carriers, forwarders, customs brokers, warehouses, and IT all need one live picture to see exactly where an AI agent saves hours and where it could create risk.

One Agentic BPMN diagram gives every stakeholder the same real-time view, so operations can stop guessing and start scaling the agents that actually keep freight moving.

"With that clarity and insight from Optimize, we are not just reflecting on where we are, we are also setting sights on where we are going." Jan Piekuszewski – IT Product Manager Business Process Automation

When every partner sees the same live diagram, AI stops being a pilot and starts being the future of logistics.

Camunda orchestrating logistics flows across 30+ countries.

That's more customs zones, regulations, and borders than the Schengen Zone—handled with auditability and precision.

Supply chain and logistics need real-time, resilient, and connected operations

  • The biggest risk isn't being disrupted. It's being disconnected.

    From port delays to demand spikes, supply chain leaders are used to volatility. But fragmented systems and reactive operations slow everything down, turning every disruption into a crisis. Without the right execution layer, even the best AI can't act in time.

  • Execution turns disruption into resilience

    Camunda helps logistics providers and supply chain teams unify systems, automate interventions, and keep goods moving. Whether modernizing legacy tools or embedding AI, Camunda connects insight to action without breaking what works.

  • Improve supply chain agility

    Supply chains depend on coordination across multiple vendors, platforms, and 3rd parties. Camunda synchronizes SAP, WMS, OMS, and TMS so operations adapt quickly to delays or demand changes.

  • Meet growing customer expectations

    Customers expect speed, visibility, and flexibility. Camunda enables real-time order updates, dynamic fulfillment, and exception handling so every experience feels seamless.

  • Accelerate partner integration

    Onboarding new carriers and partners shouldn't take weeks. Camunda standardizes integrations with SLA enforcement, compliance checks, and reusable components.

  • Build resilience and control

    From customs to audits, Camunda automates documentation, validation, and reconciliation to reduce errors and ensure transparency across the network.

Camunda logistics customers move millions of shipments daily, routing in real time across air, rail, road, and sea. Every second counts, and every second is orchestrated.

Logistics & Ops Managers

Transportation & Routing Leads

Warehouse & Fulfillment Teams

Compliance & Risk

Coordinate day-to-day logistics, partner operations, and inventory movement across regions.

Manage transportation planning, carrier coordination, and route performance.

Oversee picking, packing, stocking, and fulfillment across facilities and systems.

Ensure shipping, trade, and safety processes meet regulatory and contractual standards.

  • Improve supply chain visibility
    Connect partner systems, orders, and exceptions into a single real-time view.
  • Increase partner coordination
    Trigger alerts and updates as shipments, orders, or handoffs move across stages.
  • Respond faster to disruptions
    Sync with 3PLs, carriers, and vendors in real time instead of spreadsheets.
  • React to delays instantly
    Trigger rerouting, load rebalancing, or escalation based on late shipments or exceptions.
  • Optimize routing decisions
    Use real-time conditions and AI inputs to adjust routes and dispatch dynamically.
  • Coordinate across carriers
    Integrate dispatch, handoff, and delivery confirmation across multi-modal routes.
  • Speed up order processing
    Coordinate fulfillment tasks and exceptions as orders flow through systems.
  • Reduce fulfillment errors
    Automate checks and exception paths to ensure items, locations, and quantities match.
  • Improve dock-to-door speed
    Connect upstream orders with packing and shipping so nothing gets stuck.
  • Ensure policy compliance
    Enforce labeling, customs, and documentation rules automatically in all flows.
  • Respond quickly to violations
    Escalate risks, errors, or threshold breaches with full traceability.
  • Simplify audit and reporting
    Capture and surface key compliance events as part of the process, eliminating silos.

“The Camunda Cockpit has proven to be a valuable tool for efficient analyses and continuous process improvement.”

Guido Adolphi Project Manager · DB Cargo

“Camunda is a driving force in our digitalization—powering process optimization and enabling agile delivery. With Camunda, we decoupled order and capacity management, enabling resilient orchestration across Europe”

Guido Adolphi Project Manager · DB Cargo

Orchestrated business value across the modern supply chain

Camunda gives supply chain leaders a developer-friendly platform to orchestrate complexity, respond faster to disruption, and modernize operations — without compromising control, compliance, or partner flexibility.

  • Improve on-time delivery

    Orchestrate order flows across systems, warehouses, and partners to reduce delays and fulfillment variability.

  • Adapt to disruption in real time

    Respond instantly to weather events, partner changes, or inventory issues with dynamic routing and escalation.

  • Operationalize predictive signals

    Trigger resolution workflows directly from machine learning models or sensor data.

  • Accelerate partner integration

    Connect external logistics and warehouse providers using open standards to eliminate onboarding bottlenecks.

  • Increase visibility and control

    Unify fragmented workflows to gain real-time insight into orders, shipments, and exceptions across regions and systems.

  • Simplify compliance and audits

    Ensure every process is traceable, governed, and audit-ready from customs to carrier SLAs.

AI can flag the problem. Camunda is the backbone that fixes it.

Visibility tools tell you something's wrong. Camunda decides what happens next.

AI can spot a delay or flag a compliance risk, but insight without action doesn't move freight. Camunda gives that insight somewhere to go: a governed, auditable process that retries, escalates, or routes to a person, across every system you already run. Nothing to rip out, nothing to replace.

  • From signal to shipment

    AI forecasts and delays become real-time actions that trigger reroutes, reallocations, and exceptions instantly.

  • Resilient at global scale

    Long-running, event-driven processes keep shipments moving even through delays, handoffs, and policy gates.

  • Audit-ready by default

    Every reroute, exception, and approval is versioned and queryable to meet SLAs and reduce audit risk.

  • Integrates without disruption

    Orchestrate SAP, OMS, WMS, TMS, and carrier APIs without ripping or rewriting your stack.

  • AI that follows through

    Camunda gives AI the rules, logic, and guardrails to act so insights trigger execution, not dead ends.

Camunda customers orchestrate more cargo annually than most G7 countries.

From rail to sea to last-mile delivery, their systems move goods across borders, hubs, and partners without borders slowing execution.

  • Handle high-performance processes

    Our cloud-native workflow engine can handle high volumes of transactions at consistently low latency, with failover protection that keeps your data safe.

    Zeebe Workflow Engine

  • Tame complexity from end to end

    Automate advanced workflows that use any technology, such as event streams, legacy or proprietary systems, and even humans in the loop.

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  • Align teams with one visual model

    Bring business and IT teams together to develop more innovative solutions by using BPMN and DMN

    Model business processes

  • Use your favorite tools and languages

    Camunda's developer-friendly design allows IT teams to use preferred languages and tooling to build new solutions.

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See how logistics leaders are scaling with process orchestration

Learn how supply chain innovators use Camunda to modernize operations, embed resilience, and keep goods moving.


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