Ship chandler ERP

The ship chandler ERP, run by AI

Tidal runs the whole ship-supply workflow as one system of record: catalogue, your own catalogue matching, quoting, orders, purchase orders and invoice reconciliation. It runs as your ERP, or alongside one.

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What a ship chandler ERP actually has to do

For a ship chandler, the system of record is not accounting or crewing, it is the supply workflow: an enquiry arrives by email, every line has to be identified against a catalogue, priced with the right margin, quoted before the vessel sails, then turned into an order, a purchase order to the sub-supplier, a delivery and a reconciled invoice. Most chandlers stitch that together across an inbox, spreadsheets and a general accounting package. A ship chandler ERP is meant to hold all of it in one place.

Tidal is that system of record for supply

Tidal reads your inbound email RFQs, matches every line to and codes at over 90% first-pass accuracy, applies your margin rules and returns a quote in under 30 minutes. Won business flows straight into order management, purchase-order generation and invoice reconciliation, with profit and loss visible per vessel. That is the ship-supply record your business runs on, held in one system instead of an inbox and a stack of spreadsheets.

Runs as your ERP, or alongside one

Many chandlers run Tidal as their ship-supply ERP outright, because the supply workflow is the business. If you already run a broader fleet or finance ERP for accounting, crewing or planned maintenance, Tidal runs alongside it and pushes confirmed orders and invoices across by API or CSV export, so your system of record stays in sync. Tidal does not run accounting, crewing or planned maintenance itself, so where you need those, it complements rather than replaces the wider system.

Go-live is about a week either way, rather than the multi-month rollout of a traditional ship-supply ERP.

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Leave your work email and the port or company you buy for. We will set up a live demo on your own RFQs, no slideware. Live in about a week.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Tidal a ship chandler ERP?

Tidal runs the ship-supply side of a chandler's business as a single system of record: catalogue, item-code matching to your own catalogue, quoting, order management, purchase orders, invoice reconciliation and profit and loss per vessel. It runs as your ERP for procurement, or alongside a broader fleet or finance ERP. It does not run crewing, planned maintenance or general accounting, so if you need those, keep your existing ERP and let Tidal own the supply workflow.

Can Tidal replace our existing ship chandler software?

For the RFQ-to-invoice workflow, yes. Tidal reads inbound email RFQs, matches every line to the SKUs and codes in your own catalogue at over 90% first-pass accuracy, applies your margins and returns a quote in under 30 minutes, then carries the order through PO and invoice reconciliation. Most chandlers go live in about a week.

How does a ship chandler ERP handle catalogue item codes?

Tidal matches free-text requisition lines to your own catalogue codes automatically, so the same item is identified precisely by buyer and supplier. This is the step that removes retyping, wrong-item deliveries and pricing errors from the quote.

What does a ship chandler ERP cost?

Pricing is scoped to your volume and the modules you need, so contact us for a quote. Many legacy ship-supply ERPs price by seat or module and run multi-month implementations.