Products ContainerFlow

Pilot

Inbound shipment tracking and landed cost for SAP Business One

Every inbound container, visible in B1.

ContainerFlow is for SAP Business One importers. Build each shipment from your open purchase order and A/P reserve invoice lines, follow it through every milestone, and write the latest ETA back to B1, with an alert when it slips. It is in pilot: shipments, milestones, ETA write-back and alerts run in the pilot build and are being validated against live SAP Business One; receiving, landed costs, supplier down payments and the final A/P invoice are planned.

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The problem

Sound familiar?

  • Buyers chase forwarders by email to find out where a container is.
  • The ETA on the purchase order is a date someone typed in months ago.
  • Freight, duty and brokerage arrive on separate bills and are re-keyed into landed costs by hand.
  • Supplier down payments are tracked in a spreadsheet next to B1.

How it works

From one step to the next, inside SAP Business One

Who does what, and which B1 document each step creates or updates.

  1. Sync

    Pulls open purchase order and A/P reserve invoice lines from B1

    Purchase Order · A/P Reserve Invoice
  2. Logistics

    Packs the lines into a shipment and its containers, partial quantities included

    Shipment · Container
  3. ContainerFlow

    Follows each container, bill of lading or air waybill through its milestones

    Milestones
  4. ContainerFlow

    Writes the latest ETA back to the PO lines and raises an alert when it slips

    PO line ETA · Alert
  5. Planned

    On arrival, posts the receipt — or hands it to StockFlow — and allocates freight, duty and brokerage

    Goods Receipt PO · Landed Costs
  6. Planned

    Posts the final A/P invoice with the down payments cleared

    A/P Invoice

Business case

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Inside ContainerFlow

What your team sees

Screens shown with demo data from fictional companies. Some screens show features still in development.

ContainerFlow: Pilot: in transit, arriving this week and lines not yet on a shipment (demo data)
Pilot: in transit, arriving this week and lines not yet on a shipment (demo data)
ContainerFlow: Pilot: open PO and reserve invoice lines, and how much is already packed (demo data)
Pilot: open PO and reserve invoice lines, and how much is already packed (demo data)
ContainerFlow: Pilot: one shipment with its tracking and milestones (demo data)
Pilot: one shipment with its tracking and milestones (demo data)
ContainerFlow: Pilot: open shipments by mode, route and ETA (demo data)
Pilot: open shipments by mode, route and ETA (demo data)

What you get

Built for B1, not bolted on

  • Shipments and containers from PO and reserve invoice lines, partial quantities included (pilot)
  • Ocean FCL and LCL, air and road, with milestones and change history (pilot)
  • Tracking per container, bill of lading or air waybill; live provider being selected (pilot)
  • Latest ETA written back to the B1 purchase order lines (pilot)
  • Alerts when an ETA slips, an arrival is late or tracking fails (pilot)
  • Receipt, landed costs, down payments and the final A/P invoice (planned)

Who uses it

  • Buyers and logistics
  • Finance
  • Warehouse receiving

Who it fits

Importers and distributors on SAP Business One that bring goods in by sea, air or road — ocean FCL and LCL, air freight and cross-border trucking.

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Next step

Shape it with us

We are building ContainerFlow with a small group of early customers. Tell us how your process runs today.

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