Globis connector

Use your Globis data for reporting, automation and AI.

Data Panda brings your Globis data together with the data from the rest of your business. From one place, we turn the files, shipments, customs declarations and warehouse moves into dashboards, automations, AI workflows and custom apps your forwarders, customs team and finance use every day.

About Globis

The platform behind Belgian forwarders, customs and warehousing.

Globis Software NV started in 1999 in Erembodegem, just outside Aalst, and still runs from the same East-Flanders headquarters with around fifty people on staff and a satellite office in Utrecht. The Globis platform sits as the operational system of record for forwarders, 3PLs and terminal operators, with modules for forwarding management, transport management, warehouse and terminal management, contract and billing, and customs filing. Aertssen, PSA Breakbulk, ArcelorMittal Logistics, Ahlers, Ewals, Colruyt, Bebat and i+ logistics sit on the customer list.

For an expediteur the platform is the file: every shipment carries its consignor, consignee, transport mode, container or trailer, T1 or T2 customs document, AEO status, freight cost and sales price together. The Globis screens cover the day-to-day flow well. The harder questions, like which files still made margin after demurrage and detention, where customs declarations sit longest in status, and which trade lanes are quietly losing money against last year, sit between Globis and the systems around it. Pulling the file and customs feed into a warehouse next to accounting and fleet data is how those answers stop being a Globis export pasted into a spreadsheet on Friday afternoon.

What your Globis data is for

What you get once Globis is connected.

Forwarding reporting

Files, shipments and customs declarations joined to the accounting and fleet data the rest of the business already trusts.

Margin per file, per trade lane and per customer
Customs dwell time per declaration type and per office
Demurrage and detention exposure per container per week

Process automation

Turn file events and customs status into the nudges ops, customs and finance would otherwise chase by hand.

Open a customs follow-up task when a T1 sits in status more than 24 hours
Match Globis sales invoices to carrier purchase invoices on the same file
Notify the operator when a container crosses its free-time threshold

AI workflows

Use file history to predict where the next loss-making file lands and where customs will hold a shipment.

Forecast margin per file at the quote stage from the same trade lane
Score consignees on customs hold rate against shipment volume
Flag trade lanes whose cost-per-kilo is drifting above the quoted rate

Custom apps on your data

Small forwarding, customs and finance tools built on Globis data instead of another spreadsheet export.

File-margin cockpit with sales, cost and accruals per dossier
Customs board with declarations grouped by status and office
Demurrage exposure view per container, customer and port

Use cases

Use cases we deliver with Globis data.

A list of concrete reports, automations and AI features we have built on Globis data. Pick the one that matches your situation.

Margin per fileSales, cost and accruals per dossier across the rolling quarter.

Trade-lane profitNet margin per origin-destination pair, ranked and tracked over time.

Customs dwell timeHours a declaration sits per status, per declaration type and office.

T1 and T2 backlogOpen transit documents per agent and per consignor in real time.

Demurrage exposureContainers approaching or past free time, per port and customer.

Consolidation fill rateCube and weight used per consolidation against the booked capacity.

Carrier cost driftQuoted rate against the actual carrier invoice per lane and mode.

Customer profitabilityGross margin per consignor over twelve rolling months.

Bill of lading exceptionsFiles with a missing or late B/L blocking customs release.

AEO compliance signalDeclarations with risk codes against the AEO audit trail.

Operator workloadOpen files per operator per week, with average days-to-close.

Quote-to-file conversionQuotes raised against files effectively executed, per sales agent.

Real business questions

Answers you will finally get.

Which files are quietly losing money after demurrage and detention this quarter?

Margin per file from Globis joined to the carrier and terminal cost lines that land later in accounting, with demurrage and detention pulled out per container. Operations sees which dossiers slid below zero after free time expired, per port and per consignee, instead of finding out two months later when the supplier invoice clears.

Where is customs really holding our shipments the longest?

Hours per declaration per status across the last quarter, broken out per declaration type, customs office and HS code. The customs lead sees whether the bottleneck is at a specific office, in a specific commodity or in our own filing quality, so the AEO conversation runs on numbers instead of operator memory.

Which trade lanes and customers are still worth selling against last year?

Gross margin per trade lane and per consignor over twelve rolling months from the Globis files, joined to the sales effort logged in the CRM and the cost trend in accounting. Sales and finance see the same picture, and the rate-renegotiation list becomes a ranked file rather than a list of names sales remembers.

Value for everyone in the organisation

Where each function gets value.

For finance leaders

Margin per file and per trade lane next to the carrier purchase invoices and customs disbursements in accounting, instead of three exports stitched together. Demurrage exposure becomes a weekly number rather than a quarterly surprise on the supplier statement.

For sales leaders

Quote-to-file conversion and customer margin on the account record, so the salesperson can see which consignors are paying more than they cost and which lanes need a rate review before the next renewal. The new-business pipeline lines up with the realised-margin reality.

For operations

Open files per operator, customs declarations per status and demurrage countdown per container on one dashboard. The morning stand-up runs on what is slipping today, not on a Globis screen each operator pulls themselves.

Ideas

What you can automate with Globis.

Pair with Lobster Logistics Cloud

Bridge Globis files to trading-partner EDI through Lobster

Globis file events (booking, B/L issued, ASN ready) flow into Lobster as the right EDIFACT or X12 message to the consignor, consignee or carrier, and the inbound IFTSTA status updates land back on the same Globis file. The forwarder stops re-keying status into a partner portal and the consignee sees one consistent picture of where the shipment really is.

Pair with Exact Online

Reconcile Globis sales invoices against Exact Online bookings

Sales invoices raised on a Globis file are matched to the carrier and terminal purchase invoices booked in Exact Online on the same file, with margin per dossier pulled out. Finance closes the month with each file either in tolerance or flagged with the exact gap, instead of cross-reading a Globis margin export against the supplier ledger by hand.

Pair with MS Dynamics 365 Business Central

Sync Globis files into Business Central project records

Globis files flow into Business Central as project or job records with the customer, carrier cost lines and the sales price already attached, so finance can run cost-of-sales and revenue recognition without retyping. The operational platform stays Globis; the financial truth in Business Central matches the file the forwarder is working day to day.

Pair with TraxGo

Tie TraxGo positions to Globis transport orders per truck

For forwarders running their own fleet, TraxGo positions per truck are joined to the Globis transport order on the same plate, so dispatch sees where the company-controlled leg of a file really is in real time. The customer-service answer about ETA stops being a phone call to the driver and starts being a screen with the same data the planner uses.

Your existing tools

Your data lands in a warehouse. Your BI tools read from it.

You keep the reporting tool you already have. We connect it to the warehouse where your Globis data lives.

Power BI Microsoft

Fabric Microsoft

Snowflake Data warehouse

BigQuery Google

Tableau Visualisation

Excel Sheets & pivots

Three steps

From Globis to answers in three steps.

Connect securely

OAuth authentication. Read-only by default. We sign a DPA and your admin keeps the keys.

Land in your warehouse

Data flows into your warehouse on your schedule. Near real time or nightly, your call. You own the data.

Reporting, automation, AI

We build the first dashboard, workflow or AI feature with you, then hand over the keys. Or we stay on for ongoing delivery.

Two ways to work with us

Pick the track that fits how you work.

Track 01

Self-serve

We set up the foundation. Your team builds on top.

Globis connector configured and running
Warehouse set up in your cloud account
Clean access for your Power BI, Fabric or Tableau team
Documentation on what's in the data model
Sync monitoring so you're warned before reports break

Best fit Teams that already have a BI analyst or data engineer and want to own the build.

Track 02

Done for you

We build the whole thing, end to end.

Everything in Self-serve
Dashboards built to the questions your team actually asks
Automations between your systems
AI workflows scoped to real tasks your team runs
Custom apps where a dashboard does not cut it
Ongoing delivery at a pace that fits your team

Best fit Teams without in-house BI or dev capacity. You tell us what you need and we deliver it.

Before you book

Frequently asked questions.

Who owns the data?

You do. It lands in your warehouse, on your cloud account. We don't resell or aggregate it. If you stop working with us, the warehouse stays yours and keeps running.

How fresh is the data?

Near real time for most operational systems. For heavier sources we schedule hourly or nightly. You pick based on what the reports need.

Do I need a warehouse already?

No. If you don't have one, we help you pick one and set it up as part of the first delivery. Common starting points are Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or a small Postgres start.

Does the customs declaration data come across with status and document detail?

Yes. Customs declarations land in the warehouse with the file they belong to, the declaration type (T1, T2, import, export), the customs office, the current status, the timestamp of the last status change and the risk codes attached. That makes dwell-time analysis, AEO audit support and bottleneck reporting all answerable on the same grain Globis itself works on.

We use the forwarding, transport and warehouse modules together. Does the connector keep them apart?

Yes. Files from the forwarding side, transport orders from the TMS side and stock moves from the WMS side stay in their own grain in the warehouse and join on the file or container they share. A dossier that touches all three modules shows up once with the full chain visible, instead of three exports from three screens that have to be matched on the side.

GDPR-compliant

Data stays in the EU

You own the warehouse

A first deliverable live in four to six weeks.

We review your Globis setup and the systems around it. Together we pick the first thing worth building.

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