FMCG & Packaged Food

See your secondary sales

The firm knows what it billed to distributors (primary sales). It usually cannot see what distributors actually sold to retailers (secondary sales), so half the chain is dark, every scheme and claim is settled against sales it cannot check, and stuck stock heading for expiry at the distributor is invisible until it returns as a claim or a return.

Who has it

Packaged-food and snack manufacturers and beverage and dairy makers, the makers selling through distributors, and the depot and super-stockist, whose whole job is secondary sales.

What we build

Where a distributor management system (Bizom, FieldAssist, Botree and the like) is in place, we connect it so primary sales, secondary sales and stock-at-distributor line up in one view. Where it is not, we start with a simple stock-and-sales statement from each distributor, pulled in automatically, no big software rollout. The owner sees the invisible part of the chain and spots stuck stock heading for expiry before it comes back as a claim.

What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off

Automation for the routine. A person on every decision that matters.

The reliable spine

The non-AI spine is the source-linked workflow: clean records, rules, calculations, integrations, exception queues, approvals and reporting for See your secondary sales.

Where AI helps

AI is limited to bounded reading, extraction, matching, clustering or drafting from the firm's own data for See your secondary sales; 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

The dark half of the chain comes into view; schemes and claims are settled against sales the firm can actually check; near-expiry stuck stock is moved before it becomes a claim.

Illustrative outcome

Visibility of secondary sales and stock-at-distributor; fewer surprise expiry claims and returns. 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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