Which are the softwares used for transportation optimisation, vehicle scheduling, route planning etc?

There is more than 1 software for the transportation optimization like CargoWiz and Capepack which can be used also in the pallet optimization

Each company will be having their own software's for supply chain process like transportation and scheduling. Usually Simulation software's such as SIMIO can be used to check the optimization factors in Supply Chain.

SAP is excellent for this purpose, else any customized software that fulfills the domestic requirement is good. Cargonet ..

cargonet, CargoWise One ,SCP ,3PLink ,LogiNext Mile 

from my point of view it must be sap allowing us to automate the bidding process, implementation, monitoring and installation for transporting loads.

  It has special tools to manage the logistics, especially useful when involved intermodal transport.

  It integrates finance with management processes.

SAP / Oracle based softwares