Today
See orders needing attention, delivery cutoffs, shortages, and credit holds across branches. Open the underlying record and next decision without asking each department for a separate update.
Custom software for established distributors
Make a delivery promise your whole business can keep.
Account pricing, stock, purchasing, warehouse work, deliveries, and receivables—together in a system built around the way your distribution business works.
A working business. Fictional data. Built to show what’s possible.
Tideway Industrial Supply · Today
One situation. Every next step connected.
Nia needs the order on time. Can every part of the business deliver?
Nia orders filters, belts, and consumables for her business. Sales knows the customer, but stock is split across branches and one item needs a different plan. Confirm the quantities, price, credit decision, and delivery promise before releasing work to the warehouse.
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Make the request clear
Confirm that ten filter cases means 120 units, then review the belts and consumables with Nia's account pricing. Compare the request with available stock at each branch. Show the shortage before promising the full order, with reserved quantities separated from stock still free to sell.
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Agree on a promise you can keep
Offer an appropriate substitute or a dated backorder and record Nia's explicit choice. Review the credit exception before releasing the approved order. Sales, the purchaser, finance, and the warehouse can see the same agreed items, terms, and promised delivery window.
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Get stock to the right branch
Reserve local stock and arrange the remaining filters from another branch. Dispatch the transfer, then confirm the full quantity received at the fulfilling branch. In-transit stock stays unavailable for picking; sending a transfer is not the same as receiving it. Separately, Purchasing records actual supplier receipts and keeps any shortage visible for replenishment.
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Ship what the customer approved
Use the warehouse view to verify the approved items and quantities, stage the order, and record dispatch. Record proof of delivery against the original promised window. Picking, dispatch, and delivery remain separate milestones, with the customer's approved substitute or backorder visible throughout.
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Invoice the delivery, not the promise
Invoice only delivered quantities. On the main path, review $3,400 invoiced against $2,550 in modeled costs: $850 contribution before overhead. With Net 30 terms, $0 has been newly collected; the invoice remains a receivable. Turn the buying history into a fresh repeat quote using current prices and availability.
Fictional walkthrough, not a client result. Ten cases contain 120 filter units in this example. The main completed order has $3,400 invoiced, $2,550 in modeled costs, and $850 contribution before overhead—not net profit. Newly collected money is $0 under Net 30 terms. An invoice is not a receipt. Substitute and backorder decisions can change the delivered quantities and outcome. Figures are sample data, not a promised return. No real order is dispatched or customer charged.
The whole business, together
One order. A coordinated business behind it.
A reliable delivery promise depends on more than the sales order. Give account managers, purchasing, branch teams, the warehouse, and finance the same current information—and a clear next action when something changes.
Accounts and buying history
Keep purchaser contacts, delivery sites, account prices, terms, balances, and previous orders together. Prepare a fresh repeat quote with today's prices and availability instead of copying an old promise.
Quotes and orders
Move a request through a reviewed quote, customer approval, and released sales order. Keep case sizes, allocations, substitutions, and dated backorders attached to the customer's actual decision.
Branch inventory
Distinguish on-hand, reserved, available, and in-transit quantities across three branches. Reserve the right stock and complete branch transfers through dispatch and receipt before the warehouse can use it.
Purchasing and replenishment
Keep supplier confirmations, purchasing, expected arrivals, and actual receipts with the stock they affect. Surface short receipts and replenishment needs before they become another missed customer commitment.
Warehouse and delivery
Work through pick checks, exceptions, staging, dispatch, and delivery proof with large, focused controls. Verify the approved items and quantities while keeping the original delivery promise visible.
Messages and approvals
Keep purchaser choices, supplier updates, credit decisions, and delivery changes linked to the order. The next colleague can see what was agreed without searching separate inboxes or asking the customer again.
Finance and reports
Review credit exceptions, invoices, receivables, fill rate, delivery performance, and account trends. Trace contribution to the modeled costs behind it, and keep invoiced amounts separate from collected receipts.
See the work getting done
See the promise move from sales to delivery.
Open any screenshot for a closer look. On a small screen, swipe across the preview.
For sales and purchasing
Know what is genuinely available.
Compare the request with branch stock, reservations, and incoming transfers. Ten cases means 120 units—not ten filters. Make the shortage visible, record the customer's substitute or backorder choice, and give the warehouse one approved order to fulfill.
For the warehouse
The right items. The right quantity. A visible handoff.
Receive the branch transfer before picking, verify the approved order, then stage and dispatch it. Record delivery separately, so the office knows what left the warehouse and what the customer actually received.
For the owner and finance team
An invoice is a result. It is not cash in the bank.
See $3,400 invoiced, $2,550 in modeled costs, and $850 contribution before overhead for the main completed order. Net 30 keeps the full invoice visible as a receivable, with $0 newly collected. Follow the records behind the numbers instead of relying on a sales total alone.
Built for the way you work
This is one example. Yours is built around your business.
Tideway Industrial Supply is a fictional distributor with three branches, account customers, industrial products, purchasing, transfers, and warehouse work. Its example shows how a customer's order can stay connected across departments. Your business does not have to sell the same products or use these exact rules.
Your system can reflect your case sizes, product units, account pricing, credit terms, substitute approvals, supplier lead times, stock policies, branch responsibilities, delivery windows, warehouse checks, and reporting. We build for established distributors where a busy team and valuable customer commitments need dependable coordination.
We review your existing ERP, accounting, inventory, purchasing, shipping, and customer-ordering software before deciding what to connect or build. We check what your current providers support and agree on the source of truth for prices, stock, orders, and payments as part of your custom implementation.
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Discover
Walk through a real day with your team. Find the repeated admin, delays, and missing information that deserve attention.
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Build and connect
Build around your operating rules. Check what your current providers support and agree which systems to connect.
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Train and refine
Help the team use it comfortably, review the work in practice, and refine the steps that matter most.
Before you explore
A few useful answers.
Is Tideway Industrial Supply a real distributor?
No. Its accounts, products, orders, stock, messages, invoices, and delivery records are fictional. You can explore the connected workflow without dispatching real goods, contacting a customer, or collecting money. The quantities and financial results are sample data, not a claim about a client's results.
Is this only for industrial suppliers?
No. Industrial supplies make case sizes, account pricing, branch availability, and delivery promises easy to demonstrate. Your build can reflect the products, purchasing rules, customers, locations, and fulfillment process of your own wholesale or distribution business.
Can we keep our existing ERP or accounting software?
Often, yes. We start with what works and check what your current providers support. Connections, responsibilities, and data ownership are agreed for your implementation; the demo does not imply every ERP, accounting, inventory, or shipping platform is already integrated.
What happens after I submit the form?
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Picture a better business day
Let the next delivery promise start with a clearer picture.
Follow Nia's order from the first request to the invoice, then explore the accounts, stock, warehouse, and reporting behind it.