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Wholesale distribution solution

Run wholesale sales, purchasing, stock, and finance in one flow.

BusinessIntents connects B2B quotations, customer orders, supplier sourcing, purchasing, multi-store inventory, invoicing, and accounting for distributors that sell products in bulk.

Behind that workflow, the software stores products, customers, suppliers, opportunities, quotations, sales orders, requests for quotation, supplier quotes, purchase orders, stock movements, invoices, payments, and journal entries. Catalogue prices are used today; customer-specific price lists, volume-discount tiers, and wholesale credit limits are not currently modelled.

Start with the documented wholesale operating model, then adapt records, fields, approvals, reports, or modules when your distribution process differs.

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Both sides of the trade

Keep customer demand and supplier sourcing connected.

Sales can move an accepted catalogue-based quotation into a draft order, while purchasing records a request, compares supplier responses, and converts a selected quote into a draft purchase order. The warehouse and finance teams then continue through separate, linked operational documents.

01

Turn an accepted quote into an order

Build quotations from the product catalogue and generate a new sales order from the accepted offer without re-entering its customer, terms, or lines.

Explore Quotations
02

Compare suppliers before committing

Record an RFQ, capture each supplier response, select the preferred quote, and generate a draft purchase order from it.

Explore RFQs
03

Post every stock movement once

Receipts, issues, transfers, returns, adjustments, and stocktakes write signed movements that determine on-hand by product and store.

Explore Inventory

Role-aware wholesale workflow

Move the transaction forward without losing the document trail.

Each team owns its operational step while customer, supplier, product, store, currency, and document references carry the transaction into the next decision.

  1. 1
    Sales

    Win the demand

    Qualify the opportunity, prepare a quotation, and convert the accepted offer into a sales order.

  2. 2
    Purchasing

    Secure the supply

    Request supplier prices, compare responses, and turn the selected quote into a purchase order.

  3. 3
    Store

    Post what moved

    Receive, issue, transfer, return, correct, or count stock so the ledger matches the documents.

  4. 4
    Finance

    Complete the record

    Handle sales and purchase invoices, customer and supplier payments, and the related accounting work.

Stock in practice

See what moved, where it moved, and which document caused it.

The stock ledger records each posted movement with its date, product, store, direction, signed quantity, unit, price, valuation cost, and source-document reference. On-hand is calculated from those movements rather than maintained as a separate number.

  • On-hand by product and store
  • Receipts and issues
  • One-document store transfers
  • Customer and supplier returns
  • Stocktakes with variance posting
  • Moving-average product cost
See how stock on hand is checked
BusinessIntents stock-movement ledger showing product, store, direction, signed quantity, valuation cost, and source document
The movement list keeps each posted inventory change linked to the document that caused it.

Commercial and technical clarity

Give owners the operating picture and support teams the record trail.

The owner can follow demand, sourcing, stock, invoices, and payments. The people supporting the system can trace the modules, document links, statuses, and approval handoffs behind each result.

Sales view

Opportunities, quotations, orders, invoices, customer payments, and open balances.

Buyer view

RFQs, supplier responses, selected quotes, purchase orders, and supplier bills.

Store view

Goods documents, signed movements, on-hand quantities, counts, and stock value.

Support view

Documented module boundaries, lifecycle states, flow guides, and shared master data.

Current scope

Customer-specific wholesale price lists, volume-discount tiers, and wholesale credit-limit rules are not currently modelled; selling prices come from the product catalogue.

A starting point, not a fixed package

Shape the solution around the way your distribution business operates.

BusinessIntents can adapt documents, fields, approval paths, reports, or business areas on request when the ready-to-run Wholesale solution is close but not exact.

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Decision-stage answers

Wholesale FAQs

Who is the Wholesale solution designed for?

It is designed for B2B distributors that sell products in bulk, source from suppliers, fulfil orders from one or more stores, and keep sales, purchasing, inventory, billing, payment, and accounting records together.

How does a quotation become a sales order?

Sales prepares a line-item quotation using catalogue defaults. An accepted quotation can generate a new draft sales order with the customer, terms, and lines copied across.

How does supplier sourcing work?

A buyer records an RFQ, enters each supplier response, compares the quotes, and selects the preferred response. That quote can generate a draft purchase order with its supplier, currency, prices, quantities, and terms.

Can stock be tracked across multiple stores?

Yes. Receipts and issues affect a specific store, while a transfer posts an outgoing movement from the source and an incoming movement to the destination.

Does it include customer-specific wholesale pricing?

No. Prices currently come from the product catalogue; customer-specific price lists, volume discounts, and wholesale credit-limit rules are not modelled.

Can the solution be adapted?

Yes. Documents, fields, approval paths, reports, and whole business areas can be adapted on request.

Follow both sides of one trade

See demand, sourcing, stock, and finance in context.

Use a real wholesale transaction to review where the documented flow fits and where your operation needs a different record or decision.

The BusinessIntents Business Suite - end-user guide.