Visibility tells you where your materials are.Meridian tells you what it's costing you.
It knows what's inside it, what every day of dwell costs, and what to do about it priced, ranked, and settled against what actually happened.
Meridian, built into Epoch
Keeps score on itself dismissals included
Meridian snapshots the do-nothing world. Sixty days later: where you were, where you'd have been without us, where you landed.
It learns your network ,dismissals included
New detectors proposed from your own history then five-gates test it before brining a recommendation to you.
Scenario planning your network real hubs, real impact
Close a port or forwarder from your in-transit book. See what strands, and where it breaks first.
Speaks only when it pays silence is the feature
Moves are ranked on expected value minus the cost of your attention. Most never reach you.
We don't need clean data. We need real data. Those are different things.
Your inbox. That's the integration.
Everything Epoch needs already lands in your mailbox every day.
Read as it arrives
Epoch reads the mail exactly as it arrives. A forwarder's forwarded thread. A supplier writing in their second language. A PDF scanned crooked. A spreadsheet with the part number in the wrong column. An ETA buried in the fourth paragraph of a reply-all.
Nothing to install no IT queue
No connectors, no EDI project. Forwarding rules on your inbound mailboxes, set up in an afternoon.
Nothing to onboard suppliers keep emailing
Your suppliers don't log in and don't change how they write. Epoch adapts to them, not the other way around.
Nothing to clean real beats clean
No master-data project first. Epoch works on the mail you actually get, not the data you wish you had.
Already run a TMS? keep it
Epoch reads what structured systems never see: the exceptions, revisions, and reply-alls where the buffer hides.
One inbox. No integration.
Your buffer isn't sized against demand. It's sized against doubt.
Most teams assume their safety stock exists because demand is volatile. It usually doesn't. It exists because nobody can say, line by line, when goods will actually land — so the buffer is set against the worst case, and the cash sits there financing an uncertainty problem.
Epoch reconstructs real arrival dates from the supplier and forwarder emails you already receive. No portal for your suppliers to log into. No EDI project. No integration before you see a number.
When arrival dates become trustworthy at line level, the buffer can safely shrink. The cash it was holding is released. That's an operational change, not a financing one — you're not borrowing against the inventory, you no longer need to hold it.
Run the numbers on your own lanes →Arrival dates rebuilt from what suppliers and forwarders actually wrote, then measured against what actually landed.
Consolidations, mixed shipments, blanket POs, part numbers that don't match across systems. The exceptions other platforms round off.
EP 4544475. €900M+ in raw-material POs moving through it every month.
€2.4MOne lane
€10B+Revenue
8Weeks
Connect, without a project¹
Epoch reads the supplier and forwarder emails you already receive. Your suppliers don't log in, don't onboard, and don't need to know. Nothing to integrate before you see a result.
Reconstruct, on one lane ²
We rebuild real arrival dates for a single lane and measure them against what actually landed. Not a forecast, a retrospective you can check.
Return your number ³
At week six you get the figure: what the buffer on that lane can safely release, proven against your own history. If it doesn't pay, you walk.
Epoch begins with the truth hidden in your inbound: real arrival dates, and the working capital they release, in weeks. From that foundation, Holocene extends into planning and foresight as you grow.
EPOCH
- No supplier logins or integration overhead
- AI agents automate reminders, validations, and delivery checks
- Catch delays and mismatches before they create disruption
- Reduce admin load without adding new systems
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How to Release the Working Capital Trapped in Your Inbound Supply Chain
The buffer you hold against unreliable arrival dates is working capital you are financing. Reconstruct real arrival dates from the supplier emails you already receive, hold less safely, and release the cash. Operational, not financing.
Visibility That Thinks
Today we are launching Meridian, the Working Capital Advisor inside Epoch. It is the first supply chain intelligence that not only shows where goods are, but understands what they are worth, recommends what to do next and backs every recommendation with traceable mathematics.
Your Buyer Is Already Living the Case Study
A planner opens their inbox to 73 exception alerts. Three suppliers shifted delivery dates overnight. Two shipments show delivered but never arrived.
Closing the Gap from Supply Chain Awareness to Decisive Action
Over the past decade, the industry invested heavily in tools that promised transparency across complex, multi-tier networks. Those investments paid off.
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