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TMS · PMS · HRMS · LOS/LMS · Inventory · Dealer CRMs

Ambitious Ideas Into Robust Operational Software.

Custom backends, APIs, and integrations built for scale — clean architecture, tested code, zero shortcuts. The operational spine of a real business — the software dispatchers, dentists, loan officers, sales floors and back-offices work inside every day. 19 documented systems, including a freight-brokerage SaaS that has been live since 2013 and a dealer CRM running across 80+ locations in the US and Canada.

Management Systems Shipped
19
TMS · PMS · HRMS · LOS/LMS · Inventory · Dealer CRMs
Years Running Production Systems
10+
T-TMS in continuous production since 2013
Uptime Target
99.9%
24/7 monitored operations
Broadest Deployment
80+ dealers
Symmetry Elevators — US & Canada nationwide network
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What this practice does

What is the Management Systems practice?

It is the practice that ships the software behind the counter — TMS, PMS, HRMS, LOS/LMS, inventory management, dealer CRMs. The systems that make an operation run: dispatch consoles, patient records, credit-bureau integrations, live-animal welfare tracking, dealer routing. Discovery happens inside the real shift — with the dispatcher, the dentist, the loan officer — because a management system is a workflow product first and a database second.

19 systems shipped TMS · PMS · HRMS LOS · LMS · Inventory Dealer CRMs B2B operations 2013 → now
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We don't just write code; we engineer systems that hold up under real load — ensuring clean architecture, rigorous testing, and measurable reliability across everything we build.

Engineer Smarter · Scale Faster · Ship Dependable Software

How we work

Scope → Plan → Deliver → Handover.

The same shape whether the deliverable is a lending workflow or a live-animal inventory system. Every management system leaves a clean record — of decisions taken and of the operational metrics it moved.

01 · One page

Scope

A one-page brief — what operational surface we're replacing, and for whom. Fee letter within four working days.

02 · Shadow the shift

Plan

Discovery inside real operational shifts — dispatcher, dentist, loan officer, sales floor — mapping every state transition of the record.

03 · Ship the system

Deliver

Role-based consoles, audit trails, integrations and mobile companions — with the RO keeping spec and shipped in lockstep.

04 · Receipts

Handover

Every engagement documents "What we learnt" and "How the client improved" — so the audit trail extends to the software itself.

Featured case studies · Proof, Not Promises

Six from nineteen shipped.

Six operating systems we designed, built and continue to run in production — spanning freight brokerage, dental practice, lending, counseling, dealer distribution and franchise retail.

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CASE · 01 Management Systems 2013 →

T-TMS

T-TMS · Cloud SaaS · Voice AI + OCR · 6 named clients

Transform Transportation Into A Competitive Advantage.

"T-TMS is a cloud-based, AI-powered Transportation Management System — designed, built, integrated, optimized, and maintained by Creative Mantra. Voice AI on the phones. A predictive rate engine that never stops thinking. Computer vision that reads paperwork the way a seasoned dispatcher would. Six named freight brokers and asset-based carriers run their operations on it, every day." Public client testimonial: "The TMS with their integration capabilities has helped us grow our revenue 5X times."

Multi-client SaaS Voice AI OCR 1000+ trucks PHP + MongoDB on AWS
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T-TMS — product screenshot
CASE · 02 Management Systems —

Abacus TMS

Abacus TMS · Transportation Management System

Enterprise transportation management for a national fleet operator.

A full-stack TMS covering load booking, carrier assignment, dispatch, tracking, billing and settlement — with a role-based console for planners and back-office and a driver mobile companion. Built as a standalone SaaS for an enterprise fleet that had outgrown spreadsheets and needed a dispatch spine that could hold thousands of loads a month.

TMS Fleet operations Driver app Dispatch console
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Abacus TMS — product screenshot
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Microshipments

Microshipments · Aviation Load Management

Aviation cargo, load-planned to the kilo.

Aviation cargo management for a global freight operator — bookings, load consolidation, station handovers, tracking and documentation across a multi-country network. Built to consolidate several regional tools into one operational surface, with role-based access for station agents, planners and finance and a real-time status view across countries.

Aviation cargo Multi-country Documentation Real-time status
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Microshipments — product screenshot
CASE · 04 Management Systems —

Symmetry Elevators

Symmetry Elevators (Cibes Symmetry) · .NET Umbraco + Dynamics CRM

Customer management system for a nationwide dealer network.

Symmetry (now trading as Cibes Symmetry after its 2022 merger with Sweden's Cibes Lift Group) distributes through 80+ dealers across the US and Canada. We rebuilt the entire website in ASP.NET on Umbraco CMS, with Microsoft Dynamics CRM integration on every page — every enquiry, dealer request and product configuration flows into Dynamics automatically.

Dealer CRM Umbraco Dynamics 365 North America
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CASE · 05 Management Systems —

Dental PMS

Dental PMS · Odontogram · SMS/WhatsApp

End-to-end operating system for a modern dental practice.

Appointment scheduling, patient records, dental charting, treatment planning, billing, lab tracking, inventory and communication. A clickable digital odontogram, per-patient treatment plans with cost estimates, and SMS/WhatsApp reminders — replacing paper records and a patchwork of tools with a single system used from check-in to invoicing.

PMS Clinical Odontogram Inventory
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CASE · 06 Management Systems Internal

LOS / LMS · Lending workflow

LOS + LMS · Digilocker · CKYC · RBI-compliant e-sign

End-to-end loan origination and lead management with digital KYC.

Loan Originating System with digital KYC (Digilocker, CKYC, Video KYC), RBI-compliant e-sign, credit-bureau pulls and full audit trails. Lead Management System with round-robin routing and mobile field-sales apps. Built for a lending operator that had to reconcile paper KYC across regional offices before every disbursal.

Fintech Digilocker CKYC Audit trail
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LOS / LMS · Lending workflow — product screenshot
Full Engineering Stack · Everything You Need to Ship Reliable Software

The domains we ship operational software into.

Six ways we help teams build software that holds up — from a first backend to a fully managed, production-grade system. Each domain has real production hours behind it.

01

TMS · Transport & Logistics

Multi-client freight brokerage SaaS, aviation cargo, dispatch consoles, driver apps, EDI, settlement flows — from Abacus TMS to T-TMS to JTS Rental's calendar-anchored fleet system.

Multi-Client SaaS Driver Mobile Apps 20+ Integration Partners EDI Support Real-Time Dashboards
02

PMS · Patient / Practice Management

Dental PMS with clickable odontograms, Medisearch patient management, insurance integration and appointment reminders.

Odontogram Treatment Plans Insurance SMS/WhatsApp Reminders Inventory + Lab Tracking
03

HRMS & Internal Engagement

Employee-facing internal social networks (Efes's aefeSpeak with SAP SSO), directory and content flows for enterprise workforces.

SAP SSO Internal Directory Content Ops Enterprise Auth Workflow Alerts
04

LOS / LMS · Lending & Sales

Loan Origination Systems with Digilocker, CKYC and RBI-compliant e-sign; Lead Management Systems with round-robin routing and mobile field-sales apps.

Digital KYC CKYC Video KYC RBI E-Sign Round-Robin Routing
05

Inventory & Retail Ops

Retail SKUs, live-animal welfare tracking, supplier and PO workflows — with stock-movement ledgers and exceptions dashboards.

Multi-SKU Live-Animal Welfare Supplier / PO Exceptions Dashboards Stock Ledgers
06

Dealer & Sales CRMs

.NET Umbraco + Microsoft Dynamics integrations; Mercedes-Benz Turkey's versioned catalogue app with a .NET CMS backend for the marketing team.

Umbraco CMS Dynamics 365 Dealer Routing Versioned Catalogues .NET Backend
07

Data Engineering & Pipelines

Reliable pipelines that move data where it needs to go, clean it up along the way, and make it usable for reporting and AI.

ETL / ELT Pipelines Data Warehousing Real-Time Data Sync Reporting & Analytics Data Quality & Validation
08

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

Infrastructure that scales predictably and deploys safely, with visibility into what's actually happening in production.

AWS / GCP / Azure CI/CD Pipelines Containerization (Docker/K8s) Monitoring & Alerting Auto-Scaling
09

Legacy Modernization & Migration

Aging systems rebuilt on modern, maintainable stacks without losing the business logic that keeps the lights on.

Monolith → Microservices COBOL / Java / .NET Modernization Data Migration & Cleanup Strangler-Fig Rollouts Zero-Downtime Cutovers
Deliverables · What we typically ship

Six shapes the deliverable usually takes.

Every management system is different, but the same six categories cover 19 case studies. Most engagements combine two or three — a TMS with an inventory ledger, a PMS with an insurance integration, a dealer CRM with a versioned catalogue app.

  1. 01

    TMS · Transport Management

    Multi-client freight brokerage SaaS, dispatch consoles, driver apps and settlement flows — from Abacus TMS to T-TMS to JTS Rental's calendar-anchored fleet system.

  2. 02

    PMS · Patient / Practice Management

    Dental PMS with clickable odontograms, Medisearch patient management, insurance integration and appointment reminders.

  3. 03

    HRMS & internal engagement

    Employee-facing internal social networks (Efes's aefeSpeak with SAP SSO), directory and content flows for enterprise workforces.

  4. 04

    LOS / LMS · Lending & sales

    Loan Origination Systems with Digilocker, CKYC and RBI-compliant e-sign; Lead Management Systems with round-robin routing and mobile field-sales apps.

  5. 05

    Inventory management

    Retail SKUs, live-animal welfare tracking, supplier and PO workflows — with stock-movement ledgers and exceptions dashboards.

  6. 06

    Dealer & sales CRMs

    .NET Umbraco + Microsoft Dynamics integrations; Mercedes-Benz Turkey's versioned catalogue app with a .NET CMS backend for the marketing team.

Tech stack · Real tools from real deployments

The tools running the operational spine.

Every stack below powers a live client system you can look up. T-TMS runs on PHP + MongoDB on AWS with 20+ integration partners. Symmetry Elevators runs on ASP.NET + Umbraco + Microsoft Dynamics 365. Newer builds are Next.js on Vercel with Supabase. The stack is chosen for the operations team who will maintain it after handover.

Backend (T-TMS)
  • +PHP
  • +MongoDB on AWS
  • +20+ integration partners
  • +EDI support
Backend (Enterprise)
  • +ASP.NET (Symmetry)
  • +Umbraco CMS
  • +Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • +.NET CMS (Mercedes)
Backend (Modern)
  • +Node.js
  • +Laravel / PHP
  • +Next.js API routes
  • +Supabase PostgreSQL
Mobile
  • +Native Android (T-TMS driver app)
  • +Native iOS (Mercedes Katalog)
  • +React Native
  • +Cordova
Compliance / KYC
  • +Digilocker
  • +CKYC
  • +Video KYC
  • +RBI-compliant e-sign
  • +Credit-bureau pulls
Auth / Integration
  • +SAP SSO (Efes aefeSpeak)
  • +Microsoft Graph
  • +Google Auth
  • +Twilio (SMS)
  • +WhatsApp Business API
Cloud
  • +AWS
  • +Azure
  • +Vercel
  • +Hostinger (Supabase VPS)
AI on the system
  • +Voice AI (T-TMS phones)
  • +Predictive rate engine
  • +Computer vision (paperwork OCR)
  • +Agentic mailer (Red Dog Logistics)
A few of the operators in this practice
T-TMS — client of Creative MantraAbacus TMS — client of Creative MantraMercedes-Benz Türkiye — client of Creative MantraNissan — client of Creative MantraClient logo — client of Creative MantraClient logo — client of Creative Mantra

T-TMS, Abacus TMS and Mercedes-Benz Türkiye run the day-to-day of freight brokerages, dispatcher rooms and dealer showrooms on software this practice built. Six named T-TMS brokers on the platform including Red Dog Logistics, California Delivery Services and PDQ America.

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A one-page brief, a fee letter inside four working days. Same shape whether the deliverable is a lending workflow or a live-animal inventory console.

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FAQ

Questions about this practice.

  1. 01

    What is a "management system" in the Creative Mantra sense?

    The operational spine of a real business. TMS (transport management), PMS (patient / practice management), HRMS (human resources), LOS/LMS (lending), inventory management and dealer CRMs. The systems that dispatchers, dentists, loan officers, sales floors and back-offices work inside every day. 19 documented case studies live in production.

  2. 02

    Which industries has this practice shipped for?

    Freight brokerage (T-TMS, Abacus TMS, JTS Rental), aviation cargo (Microshipments), dental (Dental PMS, Dental Auto), lending (LOS, LMS), counseling (Aawaz, Himmlisch-Beraten), music education (My Musician), automotive dealer networks (Symmetry Elevators, Mercedes-Benz Turkey, Carkhaana), pet retail (Petland Naperville, MyPetBasket), OTT media (Shemaroo Mobiplex), indoor farming (VerCrop / KISSAN) and USB-controlled hardware (Nexups).

  3. 03

    What stacks and platforms do you deploy on?

    PHP + MongoDB on AWS for high-throughput SaaS like T-TMS. ASP.NET on Umbraco CMS with Microsoft Dynamics CRM for enterprise dealer networks like Symmetry. Vercel / Next.js with Supabase for newer builds. Native iOS (Mercedes-Benz Turkey catalogue) and Android for mobile companions. The stack is chosen for the operations team that will maintain it, not for engineering preference.

  4. 04

    How is a management system different from a website or web app?

    A management system is a workflow product first and a database second. Discovery happens inside real operational shifts — we sat with dispatchers to map every inbound call, shadowed dentists through paper odontograms, watched loan officers reconcile paper KYC. The system is designed to remove specific frictions from a specific shift, not to boil the ocean.

  5. 05

    Do you build the mobile apps that go with a management system?

    Yes — T-TMS ships with native Android and iOS driver apps supporting 1000+ concurrent trucks; Aawaz is a mobile-first B2B counseling application; Mercedes-Benz Turkey's catalogue is a native iOS app with a .NET CMS backend. Field-facing and driver-facing mobile is a first-class deliverable in this practice.

  6. 06

    How long does a management-systems engagement take?

    A single-role tool (like an inventory console): 12 to 20 weeks. A multi-role role-based console: 20 to 36 weeks. A multi-client SaaS platform like T-TMS: initial launch in 20 to 36 weeks, then continuous evolution — the platform has been live since 2013 and still ships new AI layers.

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