Beacon Insider: May

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1. Editable milestones

We work hard to keep your carrier data as accurate as possible. But you're the one on the ground, and sometimes you simply know more than the integration does. If you picked your cargo up from the port yourself, you know the date it actually moved, even if the carrier feed says something different.

So now you can fix it. If a milestone like actual time of arrival shows the 18th of March and you know it landed on the 10th, you go in, select the 10th, and your data is correct again. This works across all of our milestones. Wherever you spot an exception, you can manually override what the carrier integration says and keep a clean, accurate dataset in Beacon.

That accuracy matters more than ever. A clean dataset is what lets you trust the numbers you plan around, and it's the foundation for getting the full value out of AI. Garbage in, garbage out still applies. This feature is for the customers who care about getting it right.

2. The Executive Overview Dashboard

This is the big one. The Executive Overview answers the two questions every supply chain leader is really asking: how is my network performing right now, and why is it performing that way? For the first time, you can walk into the boardroom knowing the answers before the questions are asked.
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It starts with the operating picture leaders check daily and weekly, so you always know how much is in transit, what's sitting on quay and costing you, what's running late, and what's landing in the next seven days. No more pulling the numbers together from three systems and a spreadsheet before you can answer a simple question. The snapshot is there when you need it, and it tells you exactly where you're leaking cash.

Then it tells you why. You get to see whether your carriers and forwarders are trending the right way over time, which routes and carriers are dragging your performance down, where you're over-reliant on a single lane or port, and where transit times and dwell are creeping up before they turn into charges. That's the difference between knowing you have a problem and knowing what's causing it.

The biggest prize here is D&D. Days on quay is what drives demurrage and detention, and it's the most avoidable cost we see in freight. When you can see clearly which routes you're consistently running over on, you can actually do something about it, and drive that number towards zero instead of finding out after the charge has landed.

This is live for every customer today, and it's just the baseline. We'll be developing it quickly from here so it keeps answering the questions supply chain leaders are actually trying to solve.