Both sides of an agent account, netted to one figure.
What the forwarder owes the agent and what the agent owes the forwarder, on the same statement, each line still attached to the shipment it came from. Pre-alerts go out and come in. Co-loader statements are read per house.
An agent relationship is two ledgers that are supposed to be the same ledger. The month it stops being reconciled is the month the argument starts, and it is always about a shipment from four months ago that neither side can find.
One transfer at the end, and every line still shows its shipment.
Netting is arithmetic done last. It is not a reason to stop showing what was netted — the agent is going to check this statement line by line against their own, and a single figure they cannot take apart is a figure they will not accept.
| Date | Item | Owed to us | Owed to them |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06 Aug | AMCH-2608-0311destination charges, their side | — | 1,240.00 |
| 11 Aug | AMCH-2608-0344origin charges, our side | 2,180.00 | — |
| 18 Aug | Co-loader statement CL-08129 houses on one master | — | 3,905.00 |
| 22 Aug | AMCH-2608-0402profit share, 50/50 | 1,455.00 | — |
| 27 Aug | AMCH-2608-0417origin charges, our side | 5,692.50 | — |
Pre-alerts in both directions.
Outbound, the pre-alert goes to the destination agent off the shipment: the documents, the arrival details, the house against the master. Inbound, the agent’s pre-alert is linked to the master it belongs to, and that link is what makes the shipment start on this side.
That is why an unlinked one is on the morning queue. A pre-alert that has passed its arrival date with nothing attached to it means work that nobody has begun, and it is the kind of gap that is invisible until a customer telephones.
Co-loader statements, per house
Nine houses on one master arrive as one statement. They are read back against the houses they belong to, so the charge lands on the shipment that earned it and reaches that job’s profit.
The extension stops where the agent’s own system starts.
The obvious next feature is a set of screens for the destination agent: their clearance, their local filing, their delivery. AMC is not going to build them, and the reason concerns the agent rather than AMC.
The agent already has a system
They have a licence, a broker, a customs interface written for their country and a staff trained on it. A screen from the forwarder is a second place they must key the same shipment, and they will key it late or not at all. The data the forwarder is relying on is then the half they bothered with, which is worse than having none.
The boundary is therefore the notice and the money
The agent is sent what they need to start, in the shape they expect, and an account is kept with them that both sides can reconcile. Those two properly belong to the forwarder’s system. What happens at the port in Busan does not, and a product that claims otherwise has never watched an agent ignore a portal.
Where this extension ends.
One agent month that was argued over.
The statement that went back and forth four times is put on one page, both columns with the shipment on every line, netted at the bottom, showing what the agent would have been able to check for themselves. The agent’s version is worth bringing too, if it still exists.