The reliable spine
The non-AI spine is the source-linked workflow: clean records, rules, calculations, integrations, exception queues, approvals and reporting for Order-to-dispatch, credit-checked and stock-checked first.
Distribution & Trading
Order-to-dispatch, credit-checked and stock-checked first
An order is taken, then discovered at the dock to be short on stock or over the customer's credit limit, so it is held, split or bounced after the picking has started. The pick-list, e-invoice and e-way-bill are prepared by hand off whatever the order finally became. Stock lives in a register and one person's head. Physical does not match book, batches and expiries are not captured at goods-receipt, and dead and near-expiry stock is caught too late. For pharma, a saleable return must go back inside the manufacturer's relabel window (reported to be typically 3 to 6 months before expiry) to earn a credit note; miss the window and it is destroyed under a CDSCO-witnessed protocol and written off.
Who has it
The signature case is industrial and B2B distributors for order discipline and their deep slow-moving range; FMCG distributors and general wholesalers carry the same wholesale and B2B order and mixed-book lines; C&F agents need it for consignment stock accuracy and the dispatch leg; pharma distributors need it for batch-and-expiry, with near-expiry exposure sharpest for pharma and any dated or perishable line.
What we build
A purpose-built order desk that connects the order book to stock and to the customer's live credit position, so an order is credit-checked and stock-checked before it is committed, and the pick-list, e-invoice and e-way-bill come off the confirmed order. For the floor, a mobile or tablet picking and dispatch screen gives one stock view across the godown, with batch and expiry captured at goods-receipt, a near-expiry alert ladder (six, three and one months of shelf life left, ranked by rupees at risk), a first-expiry-first-out pick suggestion, a return-window tracker, and physical-vs-book accuracy checks. It connects to the leak-recovery sweep for the dead-stock view and to the dispatch and logistics workflow for the return dispatch.
What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
Automation for the routine. A person on every decision that matters.
Where AI helps
AI is limited to bounded reading, extraction, matching, clustering or drafting from the firm's own data for Order-to-dispatch, credit-checked and stock-checked first; it never owns the number, the approval, the promise or the decision.
Who signs off
A named person signs off anything touching money, stock, a customer promise, a regulated filing, a payment, a price, a credit decision or a people decision.
What changes day to day
Faster order-to-dispatch, higher fill-rate, fewer "out of stock or over the limit" surprises at the dock; the documents come off one confirmed order instead of being rebuilt by hand. Near-expiry stock goes back to the principal as saleable before the window closes; physical ties to book; dead and slow stock surfaces while it can still be moved; food/drug-safety and write-off risk drop.
Illustrative outcome
Higher fill-rate and faster order-to-dispatch; fewer bounced or re-worked orders. Avoided write-offs as near-expiry stock is returned in time; tighter physical-to-book accuracy. Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Path to the build
How this one gets built.
Book a free 60-minute call, then a free Blueprint on the firm's own records. Deep-dive and build, followed by run and govern so the workflow keeps paying back.
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