FLOW Manual · Roadmap v3.9 Open FLOW
Where FLOW is heading

The road ahead for FLOW

Everything in flight and under consideration, ordered by how close it is to your hands — each item tagged with the part of FLOW it belongs to. A living view; it moves as work ships and priorities settle.

At a glance

In progress2being built or in testing now

Direct purchase-to-sale cost attribution

When a sale is met by a specific purchase order, carry that exact cost through to the sale.

Product Cost · E03#394
In progress

Require a customer number before order creation

Prevents orders being raised for customers who aren't yet fully set up.

Sales Pipeline · E01#315
In progress
Planned7committed, scheduled next

Cost handling for cross-location transfers

Correct cost treatment when stock moves between locations on a cross (X) shipment.

Product Cost · E03#409
Planned

Production-cost basis for built items

Use actual production cost as the cost basis for unique/produced items at delivery.

Product Cost · E03#393
Planned

Product-level gross profit

Gross profit on the product record, based on landed cost.

Product Cost · E03#484
Planned

Stock Available · foundation

A new "uncommitted stock" figure — on hand minus what's already promised to orders, including kit demand. The foundation for automatic order readiness.

Stock Visibility · E05#469
Planned

Automatic kit-cost refresh

Updates a kit's cost automatically when a component's price changes.

Consolidated Products · E07#300
Planned

Production concept

The make-to-stock production model and its cost basis. A future pillar — nothing live yet.

Production · E10#208
Planned

Open an order straight from sales history

Jump from the product sales & quote history report to the underlying order or quote.

Reporting · E13#476
Planned
Considering43being scoped, estimated, or awaiting a build decision
Product Cost · E03

Profit basis for non-stock products

Resolving how margin is calculated where there's no stock cost basis.

Product Cost · E03#485
Considering
Stock Visibility · E05

Automatic "ready to pack"

Moves an order to ready-to-pack once enough uncommitted stock is available. Builds on Stock Available.

Stock Visibility · E05#470
Considering

Guard against shipping below zero

A stop that prevents shipping more than is physically in stock.

Stock Visibility · E05#468
Considering

Recalculate buildable-kit stock on recipe change

Refreshing the buildable figure when a kit's composition changes.

Stock Visibility · E05#475
Considering

Per-line expected ship date

An expected ship date on each order line, derived from stock and supplier lead time.

Stock Visibility · E05#505
Considering

Order/quote expected-shipping roll-up

Aggregating the line-level expected-ship values to a single header date.

Stock Visibility · E05#506
Considering

How kit demand is forecast on orders

An architectural review of how bundle demand explodes onto orders for forecasting.

Stock Visibility · E05#472
Considering

Sales-buffer refinement

Reviewing the flat delivery buffer against real transport-mode and destination variance.

Stock Visibility · E05#508
Considering

Lead-time change after order placement

Deciding how a committed expected-ship date behaves when supplier lead time changes later.

Stock Visibility · E05#509
Considering
Vendor & Purchase Price · E04

Supplier lead time on price history

Capturing each vendor's lead time on the purchase-price record, for expected-ship-date use.

Vendor & Price · E04#504
Considering

Discount detail in purchase-price history

Surfacing the discount column in the price-history view.

Vendor & Price · E04#456
Considering

Richer purchase-price notes

Adding quantity and discount context to the price-history note.

Vendor & Price · E04#458
Considering

Vendor-side approved-product view

See which products a given vendor is approved to supply, from the vendor's side.

Vendor & Price · E04#460
Considering

Retrospective recalculation on price change

Updating historical statistics when a purchase price is corrected.

Vendor & Price · E04#269
Considering
Sales Pipeline · E01

Payment terms on quotes and orders

Capture agreed payment terms directly on the quote and order.

Sales Pipeline · E01#169
Considering

Split a sales order into a second order

Move whole lines onto a new order that shares the customer PO, so one order can be split in two.

Sales Pipeline · E01#510
Considering

Categorise sales orders & quotes

Adding a category to sales orders and quotes.

Sales Pipeline · E01#258
Considering

Disable manual invoice-number entry

Locking the invoice-number field from manual editing.

Sales Pipeline · E01#140
Considering
Procurement · E02

Convert a sales order into purchase orders

Generate the purchase orders needed to fulfil a sale, grouped by vendor, directly from the order.

Procurement · E02#473
Considering

Purchase-order cancellation handling

Clearer behaviour when a purchase order is cancelled.

Procurement · E02#449
Considering
Shipments · E08

Cross-trade movement logging

Recording cross (X) shipment stock movements in the material-movement log.

Shipments · E08#405
Considering

Packing materials on shipments

Capturing packing materials used, per shipment.

Shipments · E08#444
Considering

Shipping-address consolidation

Retiring duplicate shipping-address fields and records.

Shipments · E08#463
Considering
Stock Movement & Line-Item Lifecycle · E06 / E09

Create a sales order from a stock pick

Raise an order directly from a warehouse pick.

Stock Movement · E06#350
Considering

Line-item lifecycle foundation · foundation

Making each order line's status derive reliably from the order and its shipments — the groundwork for line-level tracking and stock checks.

Line-Item Lifecycle · E09#467
Considering

Enforce whole-line quantities

Keeping each order line all-or-nothing, never partially fulfilled at line level.

Line-Item Lifecycle · E09#398
Considering

Line-item "Packed" status & clean-up

A Packed status on lines and orders, with picklist clean-up.

Line-Item Lifecycle · E09#401
Considering
Master Data & Identity · E14

A standard user role

A role with appropriate, limited permissions for everyday users — the start of role-based access in FLOW.

Master Data · E14#33
Considering

Admin can delete products

Allowing an administrator to remove product records.

Master Data · E14#481
Considering

Related products on the product view

Linking related products in the detailed product view.

Master Data · E14#219
Considering

Consignee & notify-party filtering

Tighter filtering of consignee and notify-party selection on orders and documents.

Master Data · E14#462
Considering

Notify-party contact filtering

Narrowing notify-party contacts so they don't pull from too many organisations.

Master Data · E14#364
Considering
New domains · Production E10 · Additives E11 · Integrations E15

Serial-number category for non-production items

A product category for serialised items that aren't produced in-house.

Production · E10#395
Considering

Additives compliance data

Safety-data and transport information on additive products.

Additives · E11#326
Considering

Forecasting clean-up for kits

Refining how consolidated products appear in forecasting.

Consolidated Products · E07#195
Considering

Kit stock mirrors buildable figure

For consolidated products, show stock on hand as the calculated buildable figure and suppress inbound/projected.

Consolidated Products · E07#515
Considering

e-conomic finance integration

Connecting FLOW to e-conomic — draft invoices and syncing suppliers and customers.

Integrations · E15#141
Considering

e-conomic — post products

Posting products to e-conomic.

Integrations · E15#162
Considering

e-conomic — get customers

Pulling customers from e-conomic.

Integrations · E15#165
Considering

e-conomic — get suppliers

Pulling suppliers from e-conomic.

Integrations · E15#164
Considering

e-conomic — draft invoice generation

Generating draft invoices in e-conomic.

Integrations · E15#163
Considering
Documents · E12

Category 9000 document adjustments

Document tweaks for the category 9000 range.

Documents · E12#137
Considering

Per-line expected-ship column on documents

A per-line expected-ship column on the sales quote and order confirmation.

Documents · E12#507
Considering
Not planned8on hold for now

Auto-complete shipment on stock pick

Closing a shipment automatically on check-in/out.

Stock Movement · E06#347
Not planned

Automated shipping-charge calculation

Calculating shipping charges automatically.

Shipments · E08#191
Not planned

Shipping restrictions

Rules restricting shipments by destination or content.

Shipments · E08#373
Not planned

Line-item status from shipment (legacy fix)

Superseded by the line-item lifecycle foundation work.

Line-Item Lifecycle · E09#291
Not planned

Statistics on line items

Line-item-level statistics, parked pending the lifecycle foundation.

Line-Item Lifecycle · E09#200
Not planned

Serial-number tracking

Serial numbers for built items.

Production · E10#174
Not planned

Vessel-data integration

Pulling vessel position and particulars from external data sources.

Integrations · E15#274
Not planned

Vessel current-position data

Current-position data for vessels from an external source.

Integrations · E15#232
Not planned

Already delivered

14 areas live
The bulk of FLOW is already live. Below is what has shipped, by area. The live system and the release notes are the full record.
E01Sales Pipeline (Quote → Order)~48 released

The full quote-to-order lifecycle: quotes, orders, line items with discounts and free text, quote expiry, conversion to order, copy functions, and status progression through to invoiced.

see release notes
E02Procurement (RFQ → Purchase Order)~9 released

The purchase-order form with line items, discounts and incoterms, and the request-for-quote to purchase-order conversion with full field transfer.

see release notes
E03Product Cost Architecture30 released

Weighted-average cost on quotes and orders for job costing, manual purchase pricing, inbound shipping-cost consolidation, and the company cost settings. From v3.9: Average Landed Cost calculated on purchase-order close, provisional costs for new products, the hard cost blocks on quotes, orders and purchase orders, and the append-only WAC/ALC Log.

see release notes
E04Vendor & Purchase Price Governance~22 released

Purchase-price history as a standalone record with EUR conversion, the approved-vendor relationship, vendor-filtered product selection, and price-expiry reminders.

see release notes
E05Stock Visibility & Calculations~10 released

Stock on hand, inbound and projected figures on the product record, including kit-demand cascade, with the scheduled refresh backstop.

see release notes
E06Stock Movement & Picking~8 released

The material-movement log, stock-pick registration (check-in / check-out / transfer), and cross-location dual movement.

see release notes
E07Consolidated Products (Kits / BOM)8 released

The kit recipe and stock-deduction model, net-weight roll-up, consolidated price history, and buildable-stock calculation.

see release notes
E08Shipments~72 released

Shipment creation from orders, the three shipment types, handling units, carriers and tracking, notifications, shipping cost, and the parent/child consolidated-booking model.

see release notes
E09Product Line Item Lifecycle3 released

Line-item content: free text, inherited product notes, and a consolidated-product filter fix. (The deeper status-lifecycle work is still ahead.)

see release notes
E11Additives6 released

The dedicated additives order type, its order report with outbound shipments and duplication, document generation, and the Kanban-based status model.

see release notes
E12Documents & Templates~43 released

Every generated PDF: commercial invoice, delivery note, order confirmation, pick list, sales quote, product sheet, labels, and the purchase-order document.

see release notes
E13Reporting & Insights~18 released

Sales-order economics, product-category statistics, sales & quote history, the Kanban view, and the project-cost and closed-purchase-order reports.

see release notes
E14Master Data & Identity~27 released

The contact list and organisation model, unified ID numbering, customer / vessel / project relations, and concurrency-safe record numbering.

see release notes
E15External Integrations2 released

The currency / rate-of-exchange API and daily rate infrastructure that normalises all values to EUR.

see release notes
E10Production & Serial Numbers0 released

A future pillar — concept stage only, nothing live yet.