Walon Sourcing
Procurement and sourcing
Requisition analysis, supplier selection, quotation comparison and purchase orders handled in one workflow instead of three tools.
Marine procurement and logistics, in one platform
The first AI powered, end to end procurement and logistics platform.
One platform, from requisition to deck. Every purchase order stays visible, and every cost stays attached, from the moment it is raised to the moment it is handed over on the vessel.
Built by ship management, freight and customs specialists.
- Coverage
- Requisition to delivery
- Cost view
- Live, not retrospective
- Built for
- Owners and managers
Control tower
Live purchase order journeys
Order status
Live
Cost attached
Every stage
Handovers
One record
PO-48219
Rotterdam to Limassol
Customs clearance
PO-48227
Shanghai to Piraeus
Carriage by sea
PO-48231
Hamburg to Fujairah
Last mile to vessel
PO-48244
Singapore to Busan
Supplier collection
Twelve stages
Tracked on a single order record
Sea, air and road
Planned against the date goods are needed
Customs included
Documents and holds tied to the order
Cost as it happens
Committed spend visible before invoices
The problem
The moment an order leaves procurement, it goes dark.
Ship owners and managers can follow spare parts and stores while the order sits in a procurement platform. Once it passes to logistics, visibility stops and the true cost only becomes clear weeks later from invoices.
- Orders lose visibility across collection, consolidation, freight, customs and delivery.
- Spend against budget is confirmed after the fact, when nothing can be changed.
- Procurement platforms cover the buying side and forwarders cover the moving side, but no single system spans both.
See it work
Pick the situation you deal with every week.
The same record carries the order through each of these, so status and cost stay in one place instead of across emails, spreadsheets and forwarder portals.
A critical spare has to meet the vessel at the next port.
The requisition, the supplier, the flight and the agent sit on one record, so the team can see whether the part will make the call window while there is still time to change it.
- Delivery date checked against the vessel schedule, not the supplier promise
- Air and sea options compared on landed cost and arrival date
- Port agent handover tracked to the gangway
Control tower
Critical spares in transit
Target
Next port call
Mode
Air priority
Risk flags
Surfaced early
PO-48231
Hamburg to Fujairah
Last mile to vessel
PO-48258
Rotterdam to Suez anchorage
Airport handover
PO-48262
Istanbul to Piraeus
Supplier collection
The Walon journey
One order. One record. No gap in the handover.
Walon is the connective layer between buying and receiving, giving continuous status and cost across the whole chain so the order never disappears between a procurement tool and a forwarder.
Select a stage to see what happens inside Walon.
Six stages, one record, from the requisition to the handover on deck.
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Freight
Collection, consolidation, mode and route are planned against the date the goods are actually needed. Bookings and movements update the same order, not a separate tracking tool.
- Collection booked
- Consolidated
- In transit
- See this on your own orders
What Walon does
Procurement, planning, execution and cost control in one environment.
Walon Routing
Logistics planning
Collection, consolidation, mode and route planning across sea and air, chosen against cost and the date the goods are actually needed.
Walon Clearance
Execution and customs
Freight bookings, documents and clearance tracked against the order, so holds are flagged while there is still time to act.
Walon Cost Control
Cost and performance
Cost attaches to the order as it moves, so spend against budget is known while decisions are being made, not weeks later from invoices.
Why now
Supply chains are still run as two separate halves.
- Maritime supply chains remain fragmented across many parties.
- Procurement and logistics systems still operate independently.
- Planning and cost decisions can now be optimised at scale.
- Owners face growing pressure to reduce cost and improve visibility.
- Existing tools solve single functions rather than the whole workflow.
Planning and visibility in one place, and delivery that follows through.
Sourcing, routing, customs and cost control, connected to the people who move the goods, so the plan and the delivery stay on the same record.
Behind Walon
Built by people who have run these operations.
Walon is built by a team with decades of hands on experience in ship management, procurement, freight and customs, working alongside advisors from the shipping and finance world.
Ship management
Decades spent managing vessel procurement, budgets and supplier relationships.
Freight and customs
Daily experience with consolidation, forwarding and clearance across borders.
Engineering leadership
Software leadership from building and running large scale platforms.
Shipping and finance advisors
Senior advisors from the shipping and finance community guiding the work.
Request a demo
See your own orders on one live timeline.
We will walk through a real requisition to delivery flow using your own categories, lanes and clearance requirements.
- A 45 minute working session, not a slide deck
- A walkthrough using your own lanes and clearance requirements
- A clear view of what onboarding would involve
See a live order journey on your own lanes.Request a demo