Forwarder warehouse visibility, down to the PO line
Between supplier hand-over and vessel departure, your goods sit in consolidation hubs and CFS warehouses you don't run. Epoch reads the cargo receipts, stock reports and booking confirmations your forwarders already email you, and shows what has been received, what is waiting and what is about to miss its sailing
Origin inventory, finally in view.
Stop chasing forwarders for warehouse updates. Epoch matches every cargo receipt and stock report to your purchase orders, so you know what has landed at origin without a single status call and without a portal login.
The fastest way to fix what slows you down.
Forwarder-managed warehouses are the blind spot in most inbound chains. Someone else receives, holds, consolidates and books your goods, and the updates arrive as spreadsheets and PDFs buried in email. EPOCH turns those messages into PO-level warehouse visibility.
The real problem.
Once a supplier hands goods to the forwarder, your ERP still shows the order as open. You can't tell which PO lines were actually received, which are short, which are on hold for documents, or which will miss the next consolidation cut-off, until the container has already gone.
- No PO-level view of what the forwarder has actually received
- Warehouse stock reports arrive as spreadsheets nobody reconciles
- Short or damaged receipts discovered only after the vessel sails
- Cargo dwells at origin while your plan assumes it has shipped
How do we solve it?
EPOCH reads cargo receipts, warehouse stock reports, booking confirmations and consolidation plans straight from your inbox, matches them to PO lines, and flags shortages, long dwell times and missed cut-offs before they become late arrivals.
- See received, pending and shipped quantities for every PO line
- Reconcile forwarder stock reports against your orders automatically
- Get alerts on short receipts, long dwell times and missed cut-offs
- Plan against what is really at origin, not what was promised
Cargo at origin is still your inventory.
See it before it sails.
When your forwarder runs the warehouse, receipts, holds and consolidation decisions happen out of sight. Buyers promise dates the cargo can't make, planners pad the buffer, and problems are found only when the container lands.
Without EPOCH
- Warehouse status buried in forwarder spreadsheets and PDFs
- Shortages and holds surface only after departure
- Teams chase forwarders by phone and email for updates
Alternative solution
- One portal login per forwarder, each with its own format
- Container tracking that starts only at vessel departure
- Needs EDI or API integration with every forwarder
With EPOCH
- Reads cargo receipts and stock reports straight from email
- Matches every receipt to the PO line it belongs to
- Flags shortages, dwell time and cut-off risk before cargo ships
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