One warehouse for stock, orders and margin
across every product line and warehouse
A supplier running several product lines and warehouses usually has stock numbers in an ERP and orders in a separate system. Margin is something nobody has actually reconciled against delivery cost. We put it into one warehouse and build dashboards on stock turn and margin by product line. You also get an AI analyst who answers real questions with real numbers.
Where margin disappears for a multi-line supplier
A supplier running several product lines and warehouses generates data everywhere, and a single picture nowhere. An ERP tracks stock and cost of goods. An order system logs sales. Delivery cost data sits in a logistics spreadsheet or an invoice nobody has reconciled against the sale it belongs to. A meaningful share of real margin erosion stays invisible to a simple sales report. Delivery cost by zone rarely gets joined back to the order that generated it.
Stock turn visibility is the second problem. Some product lines move fast and tie up little capital. Others sit on a shelf for months. Without a dashboard showing turn rate by product and warehouse, slow-moving inventory quietly ties up cash. Someone eventually does a physical count and finds a backroom full of a material nobody has ordered in a quarter.
Access is the third problem. Who actually knows which product line makes money after delivery cost, or which warehouse has the best turn rate? Usually, only someone who knows SQL and has access to both the ERP and the order system. The answer takes a day instead of a minute, if anyone asks at all.
A fourth problem shows up when a supplier adds a second warehouse or a new product line. The spreadsheets and manual checks that just barely worked for one location stop working once there is a second to compare against. The numbers for both quietly stop agreeing with each other.
What the warehouse and dashboards give you
A single warehouse joins your ERP, warehouse management system, order data and delivery cost records into one place. A daily sync with backfill means history is never lost. Each source gets a raw layer first. Marts get built around the questions that actually matter: orders, stock turn, margin by product line after real delivery cost, and slow-moving inventory flagged by warehouse.
Dashboards surface what an operations manager needs at a glance. That means stock turn trending by product and warehouse, margin broken out by product line and delivery zone, and a slow-moving inventory list. Capital tied up in a shelf nobody is buying from gets caught before it becomes a write-off. An AI analyst sits on top in Telegram. It can answer questions about a specific product line’s margin or a warehouse’s stock turn. Every answer comes with the SQL query it ran, shown alongside the result.
It typically connects to your ERP or warehouse management system, order and CRM data, and delivery cost records via API, invoice export, or a logistics spreadsheet. Telegram carries the alerts and the AI analyst interface.
For suppliers running more than one warehouse, the data warehouse normalizes each location’s reporting format into one schema. A comparison between warehouses becomes an actual apples-to-apples query, instead of someone manually lining up differently structured reports by hand.
For suppliers who extend credit terms to regular contractor accounts, the same warehouse can join accounts-receivable aging to the order and margin data. A management team sees which product lines are profitable. It also sees which large accounts are high-volume and consistently slow to pay. That combination looks fine on a sales report. It looks considerably less fine once the actual cash-collection timeline is factored in.
What stays with your team
The dashboards show where margin is thin and where stock is sitting too long. They do not decide to discontinue a product line, renegotiate a supplier contract, or set a new delivery pricing structure. Those remain calls for your management team. Now they are made with real numbers behind them, not a quarterly spreadsheet that was already out of date by the time anyone opened it.
Price and timeline
| Model | Price | What it covers | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agency runs it | from $2,500 | We build and maintain the warehouse and dashboards. Adjustments are included for the first month | 3 to 6 weeks |
| Full control, handover-ready | from $3,500 | Same build, plus full database access, documentation and a written handover for your own team | 4 to 7 weeks |
More for your business
Pair this with an AI agent for building materials suppliers, so contractor-facing stock and price answers come from the same clean data. Or see a website for building materials suppliers to display accurate live stock drawn from the same warehouse. The inventory alerts and reorder automation covers the reorder side of the same stock data. See the full package breakdown on the analytics service page. Read about recovering and rebuilding a factory’s ERP data self-hosted in the factory ERP recovery case study. Or get a written plan with a fixed price for your business.
FAQ
What does it cost to start?
A Warehouse plus dashboards build starts at $2,500 and takes 3 to 6 weeks. That includes connectors to your ERP, warehouse system and order data, plus marts and dashboards on stock turn and margin. A lighter tracking audit alone starts at $800, if you want to see the gaps first.
Can it show true margin after delivery cost, not just list price minus cost of goods?
Yes. The warehouse joins each order's cost of goods to the actual delivery cost for that zone. The margin dashboard reflects what an order actually earned, not a simplified number that ignores how far it had to travel.
Does this work with our ERP or warehouse management system?
We connect to most ERPs and warehouse systems that expose an API or a reliable export, including custom and self-hosted systems. We have recovered and rebuilt a factory ERP from a lost cloud account before, so we are comfortable working with imperfect source systems.
Can the AI analyst answer questions about a specific product line or warehouse?
Yes, as long as that data exists in your ERP or warehouse system. It runs guarded, read-only SQL against a prepared data mart, one query at a time, and shows the query it ran so you can verify the answer.
Is our order and customer data kept private?
Yes. The warehouse lives in your own database, under your account. The AI analyst runs on a read-only role, with no write access and no way to export raw customer data outside the guarded query layer.