Tidal gives shipowners and managers a single place to raise requisitions, send RFQs to your chandlers, compare quotes line by line, and approve purchase orders — with full budget visibility across every vessel.
Fleet procurement lives or dies on detail. A single supply run can touch dozens of spare parts, provisions and stores, three or four suppliers, a delivery window that closes when the vessel sails, and a budget that someone in the office has to defend at month end. Do that across ten or forty ships on email and spreadsheets and things slip — duplicate orders, missed quotes, invoices that don't match what was received.
Tidal puts the entire requisition-to-delivery cycle in one system. The vessel raises what it needs, the office sources and approves it, suppliers quote against the same line items, and every purchase order carries the context — vessel, department, budget line, port — that finance and audit ask for later.
Built around the way marine purchasing actually works — catalogues, requisitions, RFQs, approvals and receipt — not a generic procurement tool bent to fit.
Vessels requisition against IMPA and ISSA codes so the office and the supplier are always talking about the same part, in the same units, with no ambiguity.
Send one request to several ship chandlers at once and receive quotes back into a single comparison grid — price, lead time and availability side by side.
Route requisitions and orders through the approval rules you already use. Every line is checked against the vessel budget before a purchase order goes out.
Match orders to the next port call and delivery window, and keep agents, suppliers and the vessel working from the same schedule.
Confirm what was actually delivered against the order, so short deliveries and invoice discrepancies surface before they reach finance.
See spend by vessel, category and supplier across the fleet, and spot where you are over budget or paying more than the last port.
Tie requisitions to the component that failed, source the right part first time, and keep a clean history of what was fitted to which vessel.
Standardise provisioning across the fleet, control victualling rates per crew per day, and compare chandler pricing port to port.
Bring high-value purchases into the same approval trail as everything else, with the paperwork attached to the order.
Handle the surge of purchasing around a dry dock as one budgeted project instead of hundreds of loose emails.
Bring requisitions, RFQs, approvals and spend into a single platform — live across your fleet in about a week.
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