Tidal runs marine purchasing end to end and connects buyers with ship chandlers and suppliers. Source stores, spares and provisions in any port, quote against the same catalogue, and track every order to delivery.
Marine procurement is unusual. The buyer is often a superintendent ashore, the goods are needed at a port the vessel reaches in four days, and the supplier is a chandler who has to consolidate, clear and deliver alongside before the ship sails. When that happens over email and PDF quotes, the friction is enormous — mismatched item descriptions, quotes that arrive too late, deliveries that don't match the order.
Tidal is built for that reality. It gives buyers a clean e-procurement workflow and gives chandlers a structured way to receive requests, quote and fulfil. The result is a shared record both sides can trust, and a supplier hub that makes sourcing in an unfamiliar port far less of a gamble.
From the requisition on board to the invoice in finance, with a supplier network attached.
IMPA and ISSA coding keeps item descriptions consistent between buyer and supplier, so quotes come back against exactly what was asked for.
Send one request to several chandlers and compare responses line by line — price, availability and lead time in a single grid.
Reach your own approved suppliers plus vetted chandlers across ports worldwide when you need a quote somewhere new.
Turn the chosen quote into a purchase order, coordinate delivery to the port call, and confirm receipt against the order.
Follow every order through quoting, approval, dispatch and delivery, so nothing goes quiet until it turns up as an invoice.
See what you buy, from whom, and at what price across ports and categories, and use it to negotiate better next time.
Raise requisitions, source in the right port, compare real quotes, and keep a clean audit trail from need to delivery.
Receive structured RFQs instead of loose emails, quote line by line, and manage orders and deliveries in one place.
Tie spare-part purchasing back to the equipment it belongs to, so the buying record supports maintenance decisions.
Match invoices to orders and receipts automatically, and cut the time spent chasing discrepancies at month end.
Give your buyers a real e-procurement workflow and your chandlers a structured way to quote and fulfil.
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