Distributors and stockists
Buying from brands and selling to retailers on credit.
Stock across godowns and branches, bins and barcodes, purchase orders and receipts, credit terms that decide what leaves the gate, and GST returns from the ledger. Tathven Agentic ERP runs a distributor or trader in one system.
Buying from brands and selling to retailers on credit.
Many items, many godowns, thin margins.
Selling through GeM alongside regular trade.
Stock is spread across godowns and branches. The answer to “how much do we have?” depends on who you ask.
Stock is held by branch and godown, and down to the bin where you use them, with put-away on receipt. Moves between godowns are recorded as transfers. A move to a branch with a different GSTIN raises a tax invoice at cost, so it reaches the GST returns.
Ask “how much of this item do we have, and in which godown?”
Pickers search shelves, and stock-takes take a weekend.
Items carry barcodes and GS1 GTINs. Scanning finds the item on receipts, issues, transfers and sale lines, and labels print for items and lots. Stock-takes support blind counts and variance reports, and items are classed A, B, C or D every night by how much they move.
Fast-moving items run out while slow ones fill the godown.
Reorder points are checked every night, and reorder suggestions tell the buyer what to order before stock runs short.
Ask “what should I reorder this week?” and the assistant prepares the purchase order for you to confirm.
What was ordered, what arrived and what the supplier billed never quite match.
Purchase orders go through approval and are mapped to their suppliers. Goods receipts record what actually arrived, and receipt charges such as freight or discounts are spread across the lines to give a landed cost price. Shortages and rejects go back as purchase returns with a debit note.
A supplier’s invoice is missing from GSTR-2B, and the credit is lost or claimed in error.
Purchases are reconciled against GSTR-2B by GSTIN, invoice number, value and date: matched, amount mismatch, not in 2B, or not in your books. A chase list shows which suppliers to follow up, and credit is held back until the invoice is matched.
Retailers buy on credit, new customers should pay first, and the godown does not know the difference.
Every buyer has its own credit days and limit. An order is cleared for dispatch only when it is paid, or when the buyer is on credit terms and within them, or holds enough credit in the books. Discount schemes are set once and attached to the buyer. Quotations become orders in one click, and returns are recorded as returns.
Ask “which customers are over their credit limit?” before you release the next order.
Receivables pile up, and the ageing report is made at month end.
Outstanding is aged in 1–30, 31–60, 61–90 and 90+ day buckets. Collections are matched to bills, and online payments can be collected through your own payment gateway account.
GeM orders are handled outside the books.
The GeM connector brings government orders in, with due-item dispatch and incidents, alongside your regular sales.
GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B are rebuilt every month from invoices.
GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, the HSN summary and the annual return are built from the tax ledger, ready to upload, and a filed month is frozen.
Branches, godowns and bins, put-away, transfers, GST-correct transfers between GSTINs.
GTIN and barcode scanning on receipts, issues, transfers and sales, item and lot labels.
Stock-takes with blind counts, nightly ABC classification.
Purchase orders with approval, goods receipts, landed cost price from receipt charges, purchase returns.
Credit terms and dispatch rules, discount schemes, quotations, counter sales, returns, GeM.
Ageing buckets, matched collections, online payments.
Returns from the ledger, GSTR-2B reconciliation with a supplier chase list.
An assistant that answers and prepares, for you to confirm.
Bring your godowns, your suppliers and your retailers. Tathven Agentic ERP brings the rest, on the Inventory plan.