Each reachable from a menu rather than a support request.
14
Switches
A switch that is off removes the menu rather than disabling it.
1,668
Tests per release
A further 20 rule checks block a release outright.
Fig. 1 — One record. Six papers.lib/docpdf.ts · lib/edi315.ts
The six — house bill of lading, arrival notice, delivery order, invoice, manifest and the EDI 315 status file — are not copies kept in step by a nightly job; they are one row read six ways, which is why no two of them can drift apart while nobody is looking.
Receiving scans, spots, piece labels, walk-order picking and storage charges that reach the invoice.
The control map
Every shipment on one screen, by lane and by stage.
Six lanes leave Los Angeles. Each house stands at one of seven stages, and a circle on a stage
holds the number standing there. A lane that has stopped moving carries a flag.
Fig. 2 — The control map, as the screen draws it.app/dashboard/route-map-panel.tsx
1 Pickup2 Warehouse3 Loaded4 In Transit5 Customs6 Last Mile7 Delivered
This is the screen, not a drawing of it — the same component that runs in the product,
rendered once with a fixed morning’s numbers. Only the lanes carry colour, so one can be followed
across the ocean by eye. On the live screen a circle opens the shipments it counted.
The first screen of the day
The first screen reports what is already wrong.
Forty reads across customs, documents, money and the yard, ordered by what costs most to leave
alone. The lines are the operational records themselves, in their own wording, rather than a
summary of last month.
Today — 02 September6 items
3 cut-offs are already past and not metUrgent
2 import consolidations are past the ISF filing deadline with no filing number — 1 has already arrivedUrgent
4 containers are past free time — detention is accruingUrgent
7 pre-alerts passed the arrival date without being linked — nothing has started on those shipmentsToday
3 carrier demurrage invoices are still inside the 30-day window to dispute, the first closing in 4 daysToday
End of the morning queue
32 unpaid invoices are more than 30 days old — the customer has no credit terms set,
so this system cannot say whether they are late.
The final line carries the exceptions.
Unresolved values are reported rather than inferred. The system does not default to thirty days
and does not omit the row. Each morning opens with the list of reads that failed, so a short queue
is never mistaken for a quiet day.
What it showsThe morning queue is not a dashboard you go and read. It arrives already sorted by what costs the most to leave alone.
Where to shoot itToday — the morning queue, the first screen after sign-in, on the demo company
The take
Sign out, then sign back in, so the queue builds from an empty panel.
Let the six lines land one at a time. Do not scroll and do not click.
Hold three seconds on the last line — the one that admits it cannot say whether those invoices are late.
Why hereThis is the first movement anyone sees on the site. Six sentences sitting still read like a drawing of a screen; the same six landing one after another read like software that has already run.
What it replaces
On the first day, in most offices, this is what leaves.
A spreadsheet per shipment→One record
Word templates for the B/L→Printed from the record
Month-end invoicing by hand→One screen, all shipments
A carrier rate sheet in someone’s inbox→Read by the model, checked twice
A wall calendar for free time→Two clocks, per container
“Where is my cargo?” on the phone→The customer looks it up
Extensions
Seven more switches, under the systems that own them.
Receiving scans, per-shipper stock, piece labels, and storage charges that reach the invoice.
How the bill is built.
Pricing is issued as a written quotation at the end of the demonstration, based on the seat
count and the switches selected.
The base
Per seat, minimum two
A flat monthly fee for each person at the desk, covering hosting, maintenance, updates and
standard support. There is no charge per shipment, per document or per login, and seats are
counted once, in SCM, rather than again in every system.
Everything else
A switch, per company
Systems and extensions are switched on and off by the customer’s own administrator, and only
the switches that are on are billed. Party screening is its own switch, priced at zero: the law
requires it and the list is free government data. Customs filings and tracking above the included volume are
billed on use. The first 20 GB of storage is included.
Set-up
Stated on the quotation, per switch, once. Onboarding includes four hours of training
and one visit to the customer’s office.
Term
Set out on the quotation. Either party gives sixty days’ written notice before a renewal.
Leaving
Every field held in the system exports as CSV. No continuing licence is required to read the
archive.
The number
Issued at the end of the demonstration. Seats and switches are priced on the call, and the
written quotation is valid for five business days.
Coming from another system
Customers, open shipments and rate sheets migrate, with a preview before anything is created and
an undo per batch. Historic invoices do not migrate and are best left with the existing accounting
system. On departure, every field held in the system exports as CSV. No continuing licence is
required to read the archive.
No general ledger. No transmission to CBP. No EDI over a VAN, no live carrier rate feeds, no
report builder, no sales pipeline. Most of these are deliberate decisions rather than gaps, and
stating them before the demonstration avoids wasted time on both sides.
No. SCM is the base. The rest are switched on per company as required, and a system that is off has no menus — it does not sit greyed out.
Do you file our customs entries?
We prepare ISF, AES and AMS records, run the pre-checks, and read the responses back onto the shipment. We do not transmit to CBP and we are not an ABI broker.
Who owns the data?
You do. Every list exports to CSV or Excel, and there is no lock on the way out.
Can I import my shipment history?
Customers, open shipments and rate sheets, yes — with a preview step and an undo per batch. Historic invoices, no.
Does it connect to QuickBooks?
Both ways. Invoices, credit notes and supplier bills go out; payments read back and flip the invoice to paid.
Do we have to switch everything at once?
No. Most companies start with SCM and the Portal, and add the rest a system at a time.
One shipment is taken from quotation to invoice, on a demonstration company or on a copy of your
own spreadsheet. Difficult lanes are welcome. The session ends with a written quotation.