In the product
The procurement desk.
Approved requests land here: grab one or assign it, with the workload board showing who is carrying what and what each case waits on.
The ship raises it, the manager approves it, the desk sends the enquiries, the offers line up, the order is signed and the invoice is matched — one case, one record, no email chase.
Part of SlashPrime — company operations & ship management, by SlashBackProcurement is where a fleet loses money quietly: the seven percent nobody noticed, the vendor who never answered, the invoice paid for a line that never arrived. Here every step writes on the same case.
The ship or the department raises the requisition from the coded catalogue or in free text, against the vessel and the budget it belongs to.
It goes to the right manager by itself, and straight through when the requester is the manager. No forwarding, no chasing.
Send the enquiry to the suppliers you choose; their answers come back as comparable lines — price, delivery, discount and currency side by side.
The purchase order runs your approval matrix by amount, department and fleet, with the rule that fired visible on the line.
Invoice against order against what actually arrived, per line, with the shortfall visible before payment — and the posting to the ledger from the same record.
Every awarded price remembered, so a small rise three times a year is no longer invisible; per vendor, who answered, how fast, at what price, did it arrive.
Approved requests land here: grab one or assign it, with the workload board showing who is carrying what and what each case waits on.
The point is not that the module exists — every vendor has one. It is that it reads and writes the records the rest of the company uses, so nothing is exported, imported or reconciled between them.
The vessel, the seafarer, the supplier and the job are one record each, wherever they appear. No middleware between modules.
The ship carries her own copy, works without a link and syncs by herself. Every form is signed by a named crew member with a PIN.
Apple's Claris FileMaker platform: TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest, a named account for everyone, off-site backups that cannot be altered.
A website can show you screens. It cannot show you your ships on them. The demo can — with your vessels' names, your ranks and your SMS forms index loaded, in front of the people who will use it. Forty-five minutes, online or at your office.
One email with your fleet size and the department that hurts most. We reply the same working day with two slots for a call.
We load your vessel list beforehand, so the fleet board, the obligations register and the ship's screen show your ships, not ours.
Crewing, procurement or compliance. A fixed-scope onboarding, your users, two training days, and a decision after thirty days of real use.
Claris Partner — certified on the FileMaker platform, Pro and Server. Runs on Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad and the web. Get the leaflet (PDF).