ASN Update Radar
Know which inbound updates actually matter today.
→ A hundred delivery updates land today. Three of them actually change what you can do this week.
Dozens of inbound shipment updates land every day; most are noise, and the few that actually need action today are buried among them.
A daily inbound worklist that picks the firmest arrival date for every open shipment and tells you which to act on — verify receipt, chase logistics, reschedule, or drop — with the vessel and container moves that hit many lines surfaced up top.
About this tool
ASN Update Radar: what it solves
Inbound shipments throw off a constant stream of updates — new ETAs, vessel and container moves, customs and carrier changes — and most days the volume buries the handful that actually need a decision today. ASN Update Radar reads the day’s advance-ship-notice traffic, picks the firmest arrival date for every open shipment, and sorts each one into a clear action: verify the receipt, chase logistics, reschedule, or drop it. Moves that ripple across many lines — a delayed vessel, a re-routed container — surface at the top. It turns an inbox of inbound noise into a ranked worklist, so the receiving and planning desks work the few shipments that matter instead of re-reading all of them.
A hundred inbound updates land and three of them change what you can do
Advance ship notices arrive all day. New arrival dates, vessel changes, container re-routes, customs holds, carrier swaps.
Read end to end they take a morning. Read properly they contain a handful of things that alter this week’s plan, and the rest is the supply chain talking to itself.
The problem is not that the updates are wrong. It is that they arrive with no ranking, so the shipment that just slipped past your build date reads exactly like the one that moved by a day inside its own buffer.
One shipment can carry several dates, and they disagree
This is the part that makes the tool worth building rather than filtering by hand.
A single open shipment accumulates dates from different places: what the supplier promised, what the carrier now says, what the vessel schedule implies, what customs has done to it. They rarely agree, and the newest is not automatically the truest.
The tool picks the firmest one — the date with the most behind it — and works from that. Every downstream decision rests on that choice, so the rule for making it is the tool’s core rather than a detail.
Then each shipment gets one action
Verify the receipt — it says it landed, and the system should show it.
Chase logistics — the date moved and somebody needs to be asked why.
Reschedule — the new date is real, and the plan behind it has to move.
Drop it — no longer relevant, and it should stop appearing tomorrow.
Four verbs. A receiving desk works the list top to bottom instead of re-reading an inbox.
Moves that hit many lines come first
A delayed vessel is not one update. It is every line on that vessel, arriving separately, looking like fifty unrelated problems.
The tool groups them and puts the root event at the top. One decision then covers fifty lines, which is the difference between an hour of work and a morning of it.
What this page is
A working demo of a tool that is built to order.
It runs on Northpoint Manufacturing, an invented company with invented shipments, invented vessels and an invented inbound port. No real carrier data is behind any of it.
It is one of the factory tools sold to manufacturers on the manufacturer page: built to order for one plant on its own extract, or run once for the written answer. The invented data is what lets anyone open it first.
What it will not do
It does not guess an arrival date. It chooses between dates the shipment already carries and shows you which one it took and why. It never produces a date that was not in the data.
It sets no lateness threshold. How much slip matters depends on your buffer and your build schedule.
It does not talk to a carrier. No tracking calls, no lookups, nothing leaving the page. The demo runs on a fixed snapshot in your browser.
It cannot tell you whether a promise will hold. It reports what the shipment says today. A supplier who has moved a date three times will probably move it again, and that judgment is yours rather than the tool’s.
Built to order for your plant.
This one runs on invented data. Built to order for your plant, on your own extract, and yours outright: the code, the accounts, and a copy that runs with the internet off. Nothing is built before it is bought and there is no license to renew. A factory tool starts at $10,000 per plant. That is a floor per plant for a tool built to order on your own extract, never a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins.
Or run once. The same tool on one extract of yours, and what you get is the written answer it produced rather than the tool. The audits below are that form, and each names the tool behind it.