Trimble Freight Sourcing vs AEB Shipping Comparison: Everything You Need to Know Before Choosing

AEB Shipping is a cloud-based shipping and carrier management solution from AEB, a German software company with a long history in global trade compliance and logistics technology. The product is designed to streamline outbound shipping across all transport modes, including parcel, express, groupage, full load, air and sea freight, and to replace the patchwork of carrier-specific terminals and manual processes that many warehouses still rely on. By connecting a company’s ERP or warehouse system to a broad library of carriers through a single interface, AEB Shipping enables consistent shipment creation, labelling and data exchange regardless of which carrier is ultimately used. The overall aim is to make dispatch processes faster, more reliable and easier to scale, while ensuring that shipping data is complete and accurate enough to support customs, compliance and customer communication downstream. Key capabilities include automated carrier selection based on rules such as cost, service level and destination, generation of carrier-compliant labels and shipping documents, electronic transmission of shipment data, and packing and consolidation support at the dispatch station. Tracking information is captured centrally so that customer service teams can respond to delivery enquiries without switching between carrier portals. Because AEB also develops export control, customs management and sanctions screening software, AEB Shipping can be combined with those modules to create an integrated trade and logistics workflow, including export documentation for international consignments. The solution integrates with major ERP platforms, notably SAP, as well as other enterprise and warehouse management systems, and is delivered as software-as-a-service from AEB’s data centres. Its target customers are manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and logistics providers, particularly mid-sized and large organisations in Europe that ship internationally and use several carriers. Pricing is quote-based and not published in this listing, and no details of a free trial or free version are provided.