If your business imports equipment, parts, or inventory by sea, you've likely felt the ripple effects of recent tariff changes — not just in the final landed cost of a shipment, but in the difficulty of tracking that cost accurately by the time goods clear customs and reach your warehouse.
The real problem isn't the tariff — it's the visibility gap
Tariffs themselves are a calculable cost. What trips companies up is tracking landed cost accurately at the item level once duties, customs fees, and freight charges stack on top of a purchase order. Without a system built for that, finance teams end up reconciling spreadsheets against customs paperwork after the fact — meaning margin decisions get made on incomplete information, sometimes weeks after a shipment has already landed.
How AcuContainer solves this inside Acumatica
AcuContainer, developed by Information Integration Group, Inc. (IIG), is Acumatica-certified container tracking software that lets companies view inventory in transit by creating container tracking transactions directly tied to existing purchase orders — whether that's an entire order, specific lines, or a partial quantity of a line.
From there, teams track container status through customizable status codes — on the water, in customs, in land transit, at a foreign dock — along with expected and actual departure and arrival dates, payment due dates, and customs and duty information, all in one place. That last piece matters most for tariff-era cost management: landed cost is entered at the container level and automatically allocated across each item in that container, then flows directly into the receipt transactions generated for the shipment.
Why this matters right now
With tariff rates shifting and procurement teams under pressure to reforecast costs quickly, having landed cost — duties included — calculated automatically at the item level, instead of manually reconciled after customs clearance, isn't a nice-to-have anymore. It's the difference between knowing your true margin on a shipment the day it lands versus discovering weeks later that a price adjustment should have happened all along.
Built for the way rental and construction businesses actually import
Whether bringing in specialty equipment, parts inventory, or finished goods, AcuContainer keeps the shipping and customs side of the business inside the same Acumatica Cloud ERP Software environment as rentals, sales, and financials — no side spreadsheet required.
Information Integration Group, Inc. (IIG) builds AcuContainer and other ISV enhancements for Acumatica Cloud ERP Software, helping import-dependent businesses manage cost visibility from dock to invoice.