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TRANSIT TMS: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

TRANSIT TMS is a transport management system (TMS) from CHSOFT AG in Zurich, Switzerland, for transport and logistics companies. It supports the process from order entry to billing: a dispatch module with drag-and-drop planning, a map view and AI-assisted optimisation, vehicle and driver scheduling, empties management, loading and warehouse planning, combined and multimodal transport, and digital assignment of orders to subcontracted carriers. A mobile app for Android and iOS supports drivers, including without an internet connection, and a billing module is connected directly to dispatch. The vendor offers TRANSIT as SaaS in the cloud or on premises.

CHSOFT is headquartered in Switzerland, which is not in the EU but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision; no foreign parent company is stated. The vendor does not say where SaaS customer data is hosted, so ask about the data centre location and subprocessors. With the on-premises option you can keep the data on your own infrastructure. This makes it a European alternative to transport management systems from US vendors.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CHVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Supply Chain & Asset Management
Type
Product
Website
chsoft.ch ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to TRANSIT TMS

The European alternatives to TRANSIT TMS come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with TRANSIT TMS

TRANSIT TMS is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

TRANSIT TMS hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

TRANSIT TMS is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs TRANSIT TMS together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to TRANSIT TMS?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to TRANSIT TMS include 247Uptime, ACS fit MES and ADASMA. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to TRANSIT TMS?

Our list of EU alternatives to TRANSIT TMS is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is TRANSIT TMS GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

TRANSIT TMS is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes TRANSIT TMS an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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