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Inventory Planning for Distributors

Your Billing Software Knows What You Sold. It Doesn't Know What to Order.

Reads Tally or your billing reports, forecasts every item at every depot, and shows each morning what to order and from whom, what will run out before the next delivery, what will expire before it sells, and what is not moving. Pharma, FMCG, or both. Runs on your own PC — your sales and stock stay on it.

Ordering by Habit Costs a Distributor Every Day

Fast Movers Out, Slow Movers Piling Up"Last month plus a little" treats a daily seller and a twice-a-month item the same way
Expiry Found Too LateThe batch is noticed after the date the manufacturer would have taken it back
Suppliers Slower Than They SayPromised in five days, delivered in eight — every order lands after the shelf is empty
The Festival Guessed Every YearDeepavali stock ordered on memory: too little loses the season, too much sits for a year

Every Morning, the List of What to Do

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Order List, Per Supplier

What to order and how much, rounded to each item's minimum order and pack size, with a purchase order in Excel ready to send.

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Every Order Explained

"Why this quantity?" shows the working step by step — expected sales, days to cover, safety stock, what is already held.

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Stock-out Risk

Items that will not last until a new order can arrive, days short, sales at risk, and the supplier orders already late.

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Expiry and Returns

Earliest expiry sells first. Each batch shows what will be left on its expiry date and the date to return it by, from the supplier's return window or your default warning period.

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Dead and Slow Stock

Valued at cost, with festival-only stock kept apart so it is not called dead between seasons.

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Transfers Between Depots

A depot about to run short matched with one that can spare stock — not suggested where the transport cost is more than the margin it protects.

From Your Billing Data to Today's Orders

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Load

From Tally directly, from Marg, Busy or any software's report exports, a folder of them, or a database. One click each morning.

2

Measure

Each supplier's real lead time and fill rate from your purchases; the weeks each item ran out of stock, wherever a weekly stock count was loaded.

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Forecast

A method per item — steady, sells-some-weeks, seasonal or festival-only. With enough history, the one that forecast the item's own recent weeks best is chosen.

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Plan

Safety stock sized to how much the item's sales and the supplier's delivery times vary; orders rounded to minimums and packs, and capped at what sells before expiry where shelf life is known.

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Check

Plan vs Actual: each forecast against what sold, beside the rule of thumb — worked out from your history on day one.

Application Screenshots

Today — what to do first, with the rupee totals
Today — what to do first, with the rupee totals
Order List — per supplier, rounded to minimums and packs
Order List — per supplier, rounded to minimums and packs
Expiry — what will be left on the expiry date, and the date to return it by
Expiry — what will be left on the expiry date, and the date to return it by
Forecast — a Deepavali-only item, season by season
Forecast — a Deepavali-only item, season by season
Plan vs Actual — Distribution's forecast against the rule of thumb
Plan vs Actual — Distribution's forecast against the rule of thumb
Transfers — stock moved between depots before buying
Transfers — stock moved between depots before buying

Simple to Run

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Kinds of data — sales, stock, purchases, items. Not twelve sheets.
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Ways in — Tally, a file, a folder, a database, the template
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Click each morning — "Load today's data"
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Weeks forecast ahead for every item at every depot

Pharma, FMCG, or Both — Chosen After You Install

Pharma Distributors

Batch-wise stock and expiry, return-by dates per manufacturer, orders capped at what sells before expiry where shelf life is known.

FMCG Distributors

Deepavali and Pongal rush measured per item, festival-only items, case packs and minimum orders.

Multi-Depot Distributors

Every depot planned, with transfers between them before buying.

General Goods and Spares

Items that sell in some weeks only, forecast with methods built for irregular demand.

Know What to Order Before You Pick Up the Phone

Single Location: ₹2,950/mo · Multi-Location, any number of depots: ₹5,900/mo (incl. GST). Annual billing gives 2 months free. 30-Day Paid Pilot — ₹5,900 incl. GST, includes full installation, training, and direct support. Part of ShivAI Suite: add Manufacturing Planner or Finance Planner in the same application — a bundle with Finance costs 20% less than its modules bought apart. 3 users included; an extra user is ₹590/mo.

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