Verity for importers
Importing commits money months before the goods exist as sellable stock. Verity tracks every shipment from order to clearance with landed cost building as it moves.
Verity runs the import business. Customs filing and accounting continue where they are.
Verity / Pipeline
LiveShipments in transit
23
Value committed
₹6.4 Cr
Days at port
7.2 avg
Landed cost variance
+4.9%
Needs attention
Illustrative figures. Verity shows your own pipeline in this shape.
How the business runs
An importer commits working capital at order and receives sellable stock months later. Six point four crore in transit is money that is neither cash nor inventory, and the business runs on the accuracy of a pipeline it can only see through documents.
The second characteristic is that cost accumulates along the journey. The invoice price is the beginning; freight, insurance, duty, clearing charges, transport and exchange movement all land afterwards, and landed cost four point nine per cent above estimate is a margin already sold at the wrong price if goods were quoted on the estimate.
The third is the port clock. Free periods expire and demurrage accrues daily, and three containers past the free period is a cost with no revenue attached that grows while documentation is chased.
The fourth is that quality is discovered on arrival, when recourse is weakest. Short-landing, damage and specification variance have claim windows that expire while the goods are being unpacked.
The fifth is supplier lead time. A supplier consistently eleven days late is not a series of delays but a wrong planning assumption, and it is only visible when promised and actual dates are both recorded.
Verity tracks shipments through every stage, builds landed cost as costs arrive, and holds supplier reliability against the plan.
What Verity calls these things
What gets in the way
Import difficulties come from committing money before the goods and the cost both exist.
The pipeline is only visible through documents
Shipments sit in email threads with agents and suppliers rather than in one view.
In Verity Every shipment is a record with stage, dates, documents and value committed.
Landed cost is known too late to price with
Goods are quoted on estimated cost and the real cost lands after the sale.
In Verity Landed cost builds as each charge arrives, with variance against estimate visible.
Demurrage accrues while documents are chased
A container sits past its free period because one document is missing.
In Verity The free period is a tracked clock with document readiness against it.
Claims expire before the goods are checked
Short-landing and damage are found after the window to claim has closed.
In Verity Arrival checks are scheduled against claim windows with findings recorded.
Supplier lead times are assumed, not measured
Planning uses quoted lead times while actual performance differs consistently.
In Verity Promised against actual dates are held per supplier, correcting the planning assumption.
Exchange movement is absorbed silently
The rate moves between order and payment and margin changes without anyone deciding.
In Verity Rate at order and at settlement are both recorded against the shipment cost.
The complete system
One system across shipments, cost, clearance and stock.
Logistics
Each shipment carries its supplier, contents, dates promised and actual, vessel or flight, documents, port stage and free period.
Why it matters here The pipeline is the business, and it is only manageable as records rather than correspondence.
In practice Twenty-three shipments in transit across nine suppliers.
Records
Every charge attaches to the shipment as it arrives, building landed cost per line and per unit against the estimate.
Why it matters here Pricing on estimated cost is only safe when the variance is measured.
In practice Landed cost 4.9% above estimate.
Suppliers
Suppliers carry quoted against actual lead times, quality on arrival, documentation accuracy and payment terms.
Why it matters here A consistently late supplier is a planning correction, not a series of incidents.
In practice A supplier consistently eleven days late.
Orders
Orders carry quantities, prices, currency, payment terms, expected arrival and the value committed.
Why it matters here Committed value that is not yet stock is the working capital position.
In practice Value committed in transit against available credit.
Control
One permission model and one audit trail, with document readiness and regulatory requirements tracked per shipment.
Why it matters here A missing document is what turns a free period into demurrage.
In practice Document readiness against free period expiry.
Inventory
Arrival quantities, condition, specification variance and put-away are recorded against the shipment lines.
Why it matters here What arrived is often not what was invoiced, and the difference has a claim window.
In practice Two shipments short-landed against invoice.
Locations
Locations carry the shipments held, clearance state and storage cost accruing.
Why it matters here Goods at a port are costing money in a way goods in a warehouse are not.
In practice Three containers past the free period.
Reports and analytics
Committed value, landed cost variance, demurrage exposure, supplier reliability and arrival quality come from the records.
Why it matters here The importer’s margin is decided by cost accuracy and pipeline discipline.
In practice Landed cost variance by supplier and route.
Verity AI
Verity AI answers from your own shipment, cost, supplier and arrival records, respects permissions, and can create assigned follow-ups.
Why it matters here The questions that matter are about what is stuck and what it really cost.
In practice "Which containers are past their free period?" returns three with the missing documents.
Relationships
Customer orders and commitments are held against expected arrivals.
Why it matters here Selling stock that is still on water requires the arrival date to be honest.
In practice Customer commitments matched to shipments in transit.
Communication
Correspondence with suppliers, agents and clearing houses attaches to the shipment it concerns.
Why it matters here A shipment’s history is mostly conversation, and it belongs on the record.
In practice Clearing correspondence attached to the shipment.
Workflows
Clearance steps and claims run as tracked sequences with owners and deadlines.
Why it matters here Both are time-bound processes where a missed step costs money directly.
In practice Claims raised within the window against short-landed shipments.
Work in motion
These already happen. Recorded, the pipeline and the cost both become visible.
Recording the rate at order is what makes exchange movement measurable later.
A projected arrival that moves should move the customer commitment with it.
Document readiness before arrival is the only reliable defence against demurrage.
The claim window is short and starts before unpacking finishes.
Correcting the estimate basis is what stops the same variance repeating.
Verity AI
Verity AI reads the same shipment, cost, supplier and arrival records the business creates as it trades. It answers from your own pipeline, respects permissions, and can turn an answer into a chase or a pricing correction.
Verity / Ask
Verity AI only returns what the person asking has permission to see.
Without chasing
Each runs from the business’s own records at the point the condition is met.
When
A shipment approaches arrival
When
A container approaches its free period expiry
When
A charge is recorded against a shipment
When
Arrival quantity differs from invoice
When
A supplier misses a promised shipping date
What you can understand
Pipeline, cost and supplier reliability from trading records.
Verity records the import operation. Customs filing and accounting continue where they are.
One system, different ways of seeing it
Everyone works from the same records.
Owner
Where is my money and what will it cost?
Value committed in transit, landed cost variance, demurrage exposure, supplier reliability.
Import coordinator
What arrives when and is it ready?
Shipment stages, document readiness, free period clocks, clearing progress.
Warehouse
What is arriving and does it match?
Expected arrivals, count against invoice, condition and variance, put-away.
Sales
What can I promise?
Projected arrivals, committed stock, landed cost for pricing, customer commitments.
Where it is used
Every shipment with its stage, dates, documents and committed value in one view rather than reconstructed from correspondence with agents and suppliers.
Freight, duty, clearing and transport attaching to the shipment as they arrive, with variance against estimate visible before the stock is priced.
Free period clocks with document readiness against them, so a container sitting at a port has a named blocking item and an owner.
Arrival checks scheduled against claim deadlines, with quantity and condition variances recorded as evidence.
Promised against actual dates per supplier, turning consistent lateness into a planning correction rather than a repeated surprise.
Rate at order and at settlement recorded against the shipment, so currency movement is a visible component of cost.
Plain-language questions across shipments, cost, suppliers and arrivals, with chases and pricing reviews raised in the same step.
Getting there
Customs filing and accounting continue where they are and are mapped during implementation. Suppliers with lead time history, open orders, shipments in transit, landed cost structures, document requirements and arrival history are brought across.
Implementation runs about four weeks: discovery and mapping, configuration, migration, then an ongoing operations partnership.
Questions
Verity AI answers questions from your own shipment, cost, supplier and arrival records: which containers are past their free period and what is missing, what landed cost variance is by supplier, which suppliers are consistently late, what value is committed in transit. Each answer can become a chase or a pricing correction.
Each charge — freight, insurance, duty, clearing, transport — attaches to the shipment as it arrives and is allocated across lines and units, with variance against the original estimate visible. That is what makes pricing safe before every cost has landed.
Free periods are tracked as clocks from arrival with document readiness measured against them, so a shipment about to incur demurrage has a named missing item and an owner rather than a general sense that something is delayed.
Arrival checks are scheduled against claim windows and quantity, condition and specification variances are recorded with evidence, so claims are raised while there is still recourse.
Promised and actual dates are both recorded per shipment, which converts a supplier who is consistently late into a corrected planning assumption instead of a recurring delay.
The rate at order and the rate at settlement are recorded against the shipment, so exchange movement appears as a component of landed cost rather than a difference absorbed in accounts.
No. Customs filing and accounting continue where they are and are mapped during implementation. Verity holds the import operation — shipments, documents, cost build-up, arrivals and supplier performance.
About four weeks: discovery and mapping of shipment stages, cost structures, document requirements and supplier terms, configuration, migration of open orders and shipments, then an ongoing operations partnership.
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