The Art of Moving What Matters Most: How AGePe Logistics Software Built a scalable SaaS solution on Mendix
Partner Vision
For more than three decades, AGePe Logistics Software has focused on one mission: helping organizations manage the logistics processes others consider too complex.
Through its flagship platform, MyLogistics, AGePe serves companies operating in highly specialized logistics environments, including fine art transportation, museum logistics, business and residential moving and relocation, industrial machinery relocation, high-tech equipment handling and value-added logistics services.
These industries demand far more than standard transportation software. They require deep operational expertise, flexible workflows, seamless integrations and complete visibility across complex logistics processes.
AI Strategy & Impact
Powered by Mendix, MyLogistics combines flexible software development with AI-driven efficiency. Step by step, AGePe is integrating AI into the platform to automate repetitive tasks, deliver smarter insights, and support faster decision-making, always in a secure and controlled way.
AGePe sees AI as a natural extension of its mission to simplify and optimize complex logistics operations.
With Mendix, AGePe can rapidly experiment with and introduce new AI capabilities while keeping them fully integrated within existing customer workflows. This enables the company to evaluate emerging technologies and bring practical innovations to market without disrupting its core platform.
Current initiatives focus on three areas:
- Create: Extracting and generating structured business information from emails, documents and operational data
- Analyze: Identifying patterns, trends and recommendations that help users make faster and better-informed decisions
- Explore: Providing contextual information and intelligent suggestions directly within daily workflows
The Challenge
Five years ago, AGePe faced an important strategic decision. The company’s legacy solution had successfully supported customers for many years, but its architecture was becoming increasingly difficult to evolve in line with customer expectations and emerging technology trends.
At the time:
- AGePe operated a significant amount of on-premises infrastructure
- Individual customers relied on separate client-server environments
- Deployments and platform management created operational complexity
- Innovation cycles were constrained by legacy technology
- Scaling the platform required increasing effort from both AGePe and its customers
AGePe knew the future required more than a software upgrade. It required a complete shift toward a modern SaaS platform that could continuously evolve, integrate easily with customer ecosystems and support future innovations such as AI.
Why Mendix
After evaluating several technologies, Mendix emerged as the clear winner, particularly for its ability to accelerate product development, reduce infrastructure complexity, and scale with AGePe’s growth.
Rebuilding everything manually in a traditional development environment was no longer an option. The Mendix platform offered more than a development environment. It provided the foundation for a modern SaaS operating model.
With Mendix, AGePe could move away from managing infrastructure, deployments and customer-specific environments and instead concentrate on where it creates the most value: specialized logistics expertise and product innovation.
The platform also gave AGePe confidence that MyLogistics could continue evolving over time. New integrations and customer requirements could be incorporated into the product without requiring major architectural redesigns.
As a software company operating in a highly specialized industry, the ability to evolve the platform without architectural constraints became essential to AGePe’s long-term strategy.
The Solution
AGePe built MyLogistics on Mendix as a SaaS platform that supports the complete logistics lifecycle, from intake and planning through execution and invoicing. Today, all customers run on the same scalable platform foundation.
The Mendix platform enables AGePe to:
- Deliver one continuously evolving product to all customers
- Simplify deployments and platform maintenance
- Integrate seamlessly with customer systems and business processes
- Introduce new functionality faster
The shift has also changed how the company spends its time. Where significant effort was once dedicated to platform management, infrastructure and releases, teams can now focus more directly on product innovation, customer requirements and long-term roadmap development.
Customer Impact
AGePe’s customers use MyLogistics to optimize their entire process, from initial intake to final invoicing. By replacing scattered tools with one integrated platform, AGePe reports that customers can achieve up to 30% less administrative work and up to 15% efficiency gain per FTE while reducing complexity, and helping them save both time and cost.
Real-world results demonstrate the platform’s impact across multiple dimensions. One international moving company consolidated from six separate software applications down to just two tools: Outlook and MyLogistics. Real-time integration with their existing systems eliminated manual data re-entry entirely, accelerating quotation preparation and reducing errors.
A value-added logistics provider achieved fully digital processes with real-time visibility into their complete order portfolio. Power BI integration supports forecasting and strategic decision-making, replacing previously manual administrative workflows.
The platform’s flexibility allows AGePe to tailor workflows to different operational needs. At a fine art logistics specialist, configurable case visibility enables operational resilience: when one employee was absent, a colleague seamlessly took over their work. Another specialized logistics operator uses predefined workflows to ensure timely follow-up on critical actions like permits and crane arrangements.
Key customer benefits:
- Access to a unified cloud platform that eliminates the need for fragmented, on-premises client-server infrastructure Solutions tailored to niche, specialized logistics operations, including fine art, museum pieces, industrial machinery, high-tech equipment, complex relocations, and value-added logistics
- Seamless connections with customers’ own ecosystems, helping optimize operations
- A scalable platform built to evolve alongside emerging technologies like AI
The Value of the ISV Partnership
The relationship between AGePe and Mendix extends beyond the technology underpinning MyLogistics. As a Mendix ISV Partner, AGePe combines ongoing technical collaboration with sales and marketing support, helping the company strengthen its platform while creating opportunities to expand its reach in the market.
As a Mendix ISV Partner, AGePe draws on two key areas of support:
- Ongoing technical collaboration: AGePe holds regular technical discussions with the Mendix team to apply development best practices, maintain a secure approach, and ensure integrations are implemented correctly. This ongoing exchange also helps AGePe make effective use of the broader Mendix ecosystem as MyLogistics continues to evolve.
- Sales and marketing collaboration: Close collaboration between the teams gives AGePe greater visibility through Mendix channels, including its website, alongside marketing support that can help strengthen sales efforts. AGePe sees further potential to deepen this collaboration as the partnership develops.
- A commercial model designed for growth: An unlimited platform licensing setup supports AGePe as it expands its customer base, without platform licensing becoming a constraint on that growth.
Results
- Moved from extensive on-premises, per-customer infrastructure to a single, scalable SaaS platform in the cloud
- Simplified deployment and reduced operational complexity for AGePe and its customers
- Faster time-to-market and continuous platform evolution, five years into the MyLogistics journey
- Platform flexibility that enables customers to support multiple logistics services and international operations within a single system
- Step-by-step AI adoption across all workflows with people always kept in control
- A foundation for measurable impact and efficiency across specialized logistics operations worldwide
Why It Matters
AGePe shows how a focused software vendor in a demanding niche like specialized logistics can retire its on-premise legacy ERP solution and build a scalable, AI-ready SaaS platform. Five years into the journey, Mendix continues to give AGePe the speed, security, and flexibility to keep enhancing MyLogistics, while preserving the close, trusted partnerships that define its customer relationships.
Partner Perspective
Learn more about MyLogistics by AGePe.