Take the warehouse off paper, lot by lot.
When you replace paper and Excel in food wholesale, a warehouse that still runs on paper or spreadsheets gets its lots and expiry dates off the boxes and its customer balances out of the spreadsheet. Every product is kept by lot, and each delivery takes the earliest expiry first.
What paper costs you each month
- Expiry dates are written only on the boxes, so the newest lot leaves first and the oldest expires on the shelf.
- A customer asks which lot they received, and nobody can say without searching the delivery notes.
- Prices by the carton and by the unit sit in two lists that do not agree.
- Freight and customs are left out of the cost, so the margin on imported goods is a guess.
- A customer over the credit limit buys again, because the balance is in another file.
Every product kept by lot
- Every goods receipt records the lot and the expiry date, and spreads freight and customs into the cost.
- Stock is kept by lot in the store and the cold room, and each product page lists its lots with their dates.
- Deliveries take the earliest expiry first and split over lots when needed, with each lot code on the delivery note.
- You sell by the carton, the pack or the unit from one stock, and large accounts keep their own price list.
- A sale over the credit limit stops until a manager allows it, and receivables by age show who is late.
How you move off paper
Send your lists
Your products, customers, suppliers, opening stock and price list come in from Excel.
Get a workspace for your trade
The workspace starts with the products, units, documents and rules of your trade.
Train the team
The first session is with the people who sell, buy and deliver.
Start with one order
The next order goes through the software from the quote to the invoice.
Know which lot left first.
Open the live demo, or write a few lines about your warehouse. We reply and tell you how your products, lots and customers would move in.