Versa Cloud ERP – Blog

A distributor buys a product for $80 and plans to sell it for $120. On paper, that’s $40 of gross profit on every unit. Then the freight bill comes in. Maybe there’s an import duty or a handling charge too. The selling price is still $120, but the profit may not be $40 anymore.

So here’s the question: how much profit does a prod...

Picture a buyer on a Tuesday morning. One of her fast-moving products has been selling quickly for two weeks, but the sales report she’s reading is from last month, so everything looks fine. The warehouse lead knows something else: more than half the stock on hand is already promised to customers. Both of them are looking at real numbers. They just aren’t the same numbers.

A business doesn’t stop taking orders just because it’s switching ERP systems.

The warehouse still has to ship today’s orders. Purchasing still has suppliers to chase. Customers keep calling to ask where their stock is, and finance has invoices to clear before month-end.

And on top of all that, the team now has a new system to get ready for.

This is where...

Say you stock a part that your supplier has always delivered in about a week. Someone set the reorder point years ago with that in mind, and it’s been sitting there ever since. Then deliveries start slipping. Ten days. Twelve. One order takes fifteen. Your shelf is empty by day nine, a customer is waiting, and somebody in purchasing is on the phone begging for a rush shipment...

Your system says Warehouse A has 50 units of a product. Someone walks down the aisle, counts the boxes, and gets 46. Now you have four units that exist on paper but not on the shelf.

The first reaction is usually to fix the number and move on. Before you do that, ask where those four units went. Maybe a delivery came in and nobody posted it. Maybe a transfer left for W...