Pricing, costing and order tracking for a packaging supplies trading company — replacing the spreadsheets that decided what every customer paid.
The Challenge
Prices lived in spreadsheets only a couple of people fully understood. When a supplier's cost moved, the selling price didn't always follow, so margin leaked quietly and nobody noticed until much later. Once an order was placed, no one outside the office could say what stage it had reached.
The Solution
Every product's cost, supplier and selling price now sits in one place. Prices are worked out by a rule set per product rather than by hand, so when a cost changes the price moves with it and the old price stays on record. Orders run along a visible track — quotation, pricing approval, purchasing, packing, delivery — so anyone can see where a job is and who last touched it. Salespeople only see their own area. Costs and stock levels are read automatically from the accounting system the company already uses, so the same figure is never typed twice.
What It Does
Cost and price tracking per product
Automatic pricing rules, with manual override
Supplier price comparison
Full price history
Order pipeline with approval stages
Packing and delivery scheduling
Sales-area access control
Public product catalogue for enquiries
Reads cost and stock from the accounting system
We'll come back with what it takes to build, what it takes to run, and whether we're the right people for it.