Use cases

Wherever goods move as a unit.

If your operation handles a pallet, a tote or a container as one thing — building it, moving it, shipping it — ContainerQ gives Business Central a record that behaves the same way. Here's where it fits.

Food & beverage

Lot and expiry that ship with the pallet

Build pallets of lot-tracked product with expiration dates attached the way Business Central requires. Ship on a GS1-128 label carrying the lot and best-before date, so a customer or auditor can trace exactly what's on the pallet — and FEFO stays honest because the ledger, not a spreadsheet, is the source.

  • Lot + expiration attached correctly and kept.
  • SSCC labels ready for retail and distributor mandates.
3PL & distribution

One identifier the whole chain understands

A proprietary container number is worthless past your own four walls. ContainerQ stamps each plate with a globally-unique GS1 SSCC that every carrier, customer and partner system already knows how to scan — so handoffs don't turn into re-keying and reconciliation.

  • Standards-based SSCC-18 from build to delivery.
  • Move a whole container in one action.
Manufacturing

Finished goods, plated off the line

Build a license plate for a run of finished goods and keep its serial or lot identity intact through put-away, storage and shipment. Because every posting is confirmed against the ledger, what the plate claims and what inventory says are the same number.

  • Serial / lot identity preserved end to end.
  • Nest sub-assemblies into a shippable unit.
Cold chain & regulated

A hold that actually holds

When a container goes on quality hold, nothing nested inside it should be pickable — not three levels down, not by accident. ContainerQ's holds reach through the nesting structure, and the append-only event log gives you a complete, tamper-evident history of everything that touched the plate.

  • Holds stop nested operations, not just a status field.
  • Full append-only history for audits and recalls.
A worked example

A pallet of olive oil, from build to ledger.

The kind of everyday flow ContainerQ is built for — nothing exotic, just a unit of goods handled as a unit and kept honest.

Build

A pallet plate is created and given an SSCC. It's now one scannable object.

Pack

Twenty-four cases of a lot-tracked, dated product go on — lot and expiry attached.

Move & label

The whole pallet moves to a shipping bin; a GS1-128 label prints with its contents.

Confirm

A second read of the ledger confirms twenty-four cases actually moved — then, and only then, the operation reports done.

Recognize your operation?

Tell us what you move and how you ship it, and we'll show you the plate flow that fits.