Software for manufacturers and importers: container POs and landed cost

Importer inventory management software for buyers who go direct to the factory. You write POs in dollars, pay deposits in dollars, get billed for freight in dollars, and need a true landed cost per SKU the day the container clears customs.

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You're probably dealing with

A factory PO with 30% deposit and 70% balance against the bill of lading — while the inventory system treats the PO as a single number with a single status

A twelve-to-sixteen-week production lead time, then weeks on the ocean and in customs, with the ETA tracked by memory

A freight forwarder invoice that arrives a month late and has to be manually allocated across forty SKUs by weight and volume

A customs duty bill landing separately, unsure whether to expense it or roll it into cost of goods

A "true cost per unit" only knowable a quarter after the container landed

Three different platforms doing three pieces of this — a PO tool, a landed-cost spreadsheet, an accounting system that talks to neither

Here's what changes with Rilk

Rilk's manufacturer and import workflow was built for exactly this operation. A PO is a real object with structured payment terms — deposit percentage, balance percentage, currency, payment due triggers — and a lifecycle that mirrors the real operation: issued, in production, shipped, at port, customs cleared, received, with photos and documents attached where they belong.

When the freight forwarder invoice lands, you enter it once and allocate by weight, volume, value, or unit count across every SKU on the shipment. The first unit out of the container has a true landed cost on it the day it reaches the warehouse.

When the container's contents sell, per-unit profit reporting reflects the real cost — not a guessed average — broken down per SKU, per shipment, per supplier, so a factory that consistently lands at a higher real cost than priced for, or a forwarder quietly eating margin in surcharges, shows up in the numbers.

Capabilities that matter most for you

Manufacturer & import flow — deposit/balance terms, production milestones, container tracking, document attachments

Purchase orders — landed cost allocation across SKUs by weight, volume, value, or unit count

Reporting — true per-unit margin against the real landed cost, per shipment, per supplier, per SKU

Multi-channel sync — sell-through velocity by channel for import planning

Returns — cost basis travels with a defective unit that comes back

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