Trades · Distribution, wholesale and 3PL
Technology for distribution and wholesale businesses in Leicestershire
Leicestershire moves boxes: Magna Park at Lutterworth, East Midlands Gateway, and hundreds of ordinary wholesalers on ordinary estates in between. Most run Linnworks, Unleashed, Cin7 or Veeqo, with Sage or Xero in the office, and the same three problems.
The three pains we keep finding
Three systems, three stock figures
The webshop says in stock, the warehouse system says two left, the spreadsheet says none. Whichever is right, someone is apologising to a customer this week because the other two weren't. Call it stock control or inventory management; either way the fix is one system holding the truth and the others listening to it.
Orders re-typed at every step
Webshop order into the stock system, stock system into the courier portal, courier reference back into the accounts. Every re-type is ten minutes and a chance to send the wrong pallet to the wrong place.
Margin by customer is a mystery
Turnover by customer is easy; margin is not, because carriage, returns and the discounts agreed on the phone never land in the same system. The biggest account is often the least profitable, and nobody can see it.
What we typically build for distributors
- A stock accuracy dashboard: system against counted, worst lines first. About a week.
- Webshop, stock system and courier connected, no re-keying. One to two weeks.
- Margin by customer with carriage in: who actually makes you money. About a week.
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One honest note
The common webshop-to-stock connections often exist off the shelf: check your package's own app list before paying anyone. We're for the gaps, the couriers without connectors, and the numbers no standard report shows.
Run a warehouse?
Tell us which figure is wrong today. A first conversation costs nothing.