OPENVANNING From warehouse receipt to a container plan. Container vanning planning for LCL shipments
Register cargo as it arrives, allocate it to each S/I, consolidate lots into a container, calculate the packing automatically, check it in 3D and print the documents your warehouse and shipping line use.
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Cargo arrives first. The paperwork comes later.
The S/I (shipping instruction) reaches you after the cargo is already in the warehouse. Matching the two, planning the box and writing the documents is slow and easy to get wrong.
Which cargo belongs to which S/I?
Receipts, crate marks and S/I quantities have to be matched by hand.
How does it all fit in one container?
Loading plans are drawn from experience, and one change means starting over.
The same data, typed again and again
Packing lists, work orders and S/I documents are re-created from scratch.
Register what arrived, three ways
Every receiving report becomes one receipt, ready to be allocated.
- Type it in when there is only one.
- Import a CSV when there are many.
- Upload a photo or PDF of the receiving report and let AI read it. You confirm every value.
- Find any receipt by crate mark, even from a partial number such as 11-95.
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Allocate cargo to each S/I
One S/I is one shipment lot. Tick the receipts that belong to it and create the lot in one step.
- Enter the lot code, destination port and cut-off date, and the allocation is done.
- A reconciliation panel compares the S/I quantities with what you actually allocated.
- Cargo without a measured size or weight cannot be allocated, so gaps surface early.
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Consolidate lots into one container
Several shippers share one real container (LCL). Pick the lots and combine them.
- Only lots with the same destination port can be combined.
- Remove a lot from a container, or cancel it, whenever plans change.
- The container screen is the starting point for everything about that box.
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Calculate the packing, then check it in 3D
One button produces several loading plans to compare.
- Compare the plans and pick the one you like.
- Open the plan in 3D and drag cargo by hand to adjust it.
- Items still awaiting customs clearance are left out of the calculation.
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Print the documents people actually use
From the confirmed plan, one click gives the documents for the warehouse floor and the shipping line.
- VANNING PLAN (PDF/Excel) from the container screen.
- CLP and work instruction (PDF/Excel) from the packing-plan screen.
- S/I (PDF/Excel) from the lot screen.
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Built to be undone, and easy to search
Cancel is reversible
Cancelled records can be restored. Deleting is only allowed when nothing depends on the record.
One search box for every number
Receipt, crate mark, S/I, booking, container and master B/L numbers all work in one box (Ctrl+K).
An assistant for how-to questions
Ask the built-in assistant how a step works or what a packing-calculation warning means.
See it with your own cargo
Private demos are available on request. Tell us how you ship and we will show you OpenVanning working on it.