The Beacon Insider: March

Every release we ship comes from the same place: conversations with the people actually using Beacon to manage complex, global supply chains. March is no different. Four new features, all built around the same idea. Giving you better access to your data, with less friction in the way.

Documents in one view

Documents now has its own dedicated area in Beacon.

Your files have always lived on your shipments. That hasn't changed. But finding a specific document across hundreds of shipments and dozens of orders was never straightforward.

Now there's a single place to see everything. A clean  view showing every document across your supply chain, with the context you need at a glance: the document name, the order and shipment it's associated with, the file type, who added it, and when.

You can search, filter by type, download, edit, or delete directly from the Documents area. Click through to read any file in full, with its linked shipments right alongside it.

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Order Custom Fields - Finally I hear you cry!

Beacon has always supported custom fields. And they've always been powerful.

Now custom fields work at the order level as well as the shipment level. Set a value once and it appears across every row that shares that order number, regardless of shipment. That means your data is captured at both levels: the granularity of a shipment and the consistency of an order.

Add a field, give it a value, and it propagates everywhere that order appears. In your table, your orders view, and your live boards.

Custom fields have always been useful. With order-level fields, they're more powerful than ever.

Calendar View by Week

Calendar View gives you a visual layout of your shipment arrivals, mapped out by date. No digging through tables. Just a clear picture of what's landing and when.

The new week view lets you zoom in. See exactly what's arriving across a seven-day window, with enough detail to read the specifics of each individual shipment.

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Live Boards: List View

Live Boards give different teams and customers visibility into their own slice of your supply chain. As usage grows, so does the number of boards. And a grid of tiles only gets you so far.

The new list view lays everything out clearly. Every board, the number of shipments it contains, and who created it, all in one place.

For teams managing a large number of boards across multiple stakeholders, this makes a real difference.

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