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Inventory and order software for distributors who need to know what can ship
A distributor can show stock on the screen and still promise product that is committed, incoming, in the wrong warehouse, or past the date a customer will accept. The cash is sitting in that inventory. The order margin is a guess until the invoice.
MFGMAX Distributors shows on-hand, committed, and incoming stock before a promise is made. Buying follows open orders, reorder points, and vendor lead time. Allocations, backorders, and shipments make a short order visible.
Item cost, sell price, and customer margin stay with the order. Accounting can stay in QuickBooks. This is distribution, not a plant record.
What stays on one record
- See on-hand, committed, and incoming stock before a promise is made
- Buy against open orders, reorder points, and vendor lead time
- Follow allocations, backorders, and shipments so a short order is visible
- Keep item cost, sell price, and customer margin with the order
How a order runs in MFGMAX
1. See what can actually ship
On-hand, committed, and incoming are separate. A promise uses the quantity that can ship, not the quantity that happens to be in a bin photo.
2. Buy from the open orders
Purchasing buys against open orders, reorder points, and vendor lead time instead of a feeling that the shelf looks light.
3. Watch the short order
Allocations, backorders, and shipments show a short order while the customer can still be told.
4. Keep margin on the order
Item cost, sell price, and customer margin stay with the order so a cheap-looking sale is not discovered at month end.
5. See the cash in the warehouse
Stock that looks available can still be the wrong lot, in the wrong warehouse, or past the date a customer will take. That is cash, not available inventory.
A normal week
A salesperson promises a ship date from on-hand. Half of that quantity is already allocated. The rest is incoming next Wednesday. The customer hears Friday.
Purchasing reorders a fast mover that is actually slow in two of three branches. The cash sits. The branch that needed it still backorders.
A customer’s price was set when the item cost was lower. The order never shows the margin. Finance sees it when the inventory account and the invoices are forced to agree.
MFGMAX keeps what can ship, what should be bought, and what the order earned on the same picture.
Who it is for
- Industrial suppliers
- MRO and maintenance distributors
- Wholesale and specialty distributors
- Multi-branch distributors
- Importers that stock and resell
- Manufacturers with a distribution arm
Questions owners ask
- Which items are short for open orders?
- How much cash is tied up in slow inventory?
- Which items should move to just-in-time?
- Which customers need attention this week?
The copilot answers from your own records. How the AI copilot works.
Integrations
MFGMAX holds the batch or job, the lots or materials, and the actual cost. Accounting can stay in QuickBooks, or in another system you already close. Inventory, quality, shipping, payroll, and other plant software can connect the same way. What moves, and when, is shown before you commit. Your accountant still closes the books.
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Questions
What stays on one order in MFGMAX Distributors?
What can ship, what should be bought, and what each order earned stay on the same picture. On that same record: See on-hand, committed, and incoming stock before a promise is made Buy against open orders, reorder points, and vendor lead time Follow allocations, backorders, and shipments so a short order is visible Keep item cost, sell price, and customer margin with the order The point is that sales, the floor, and finance are not each keeping a private copy.
When does the cost become visible?
The cost is on the open order, not in a report after the shipment or the invoice. Keep item cost, sell price, and customer margin with the order If the number shows up only at close, the price and the schedule have already moved on.
Do we have to leave QuickBooks?
MFGMAX holds the batch or job, the lots or materials, and the actual cost. Accounting can stay in QuickBooks, or in another system you already close. Inventory, quality, shipping, payroll, and other plant software can connect the same way. What moves, and when, is shown before you commit. Your accountant still closes the books.
What can the AI copilot answer?
The copilot answers from the records already in MFGMAX, not from a general guess. Owners ask things like: Which items are short for open orders? How much cash is tied up in slow inventory? Which items should move to just-in-time? Which customers need attention this week? If the record was never written, the copilot cannot invent it.
What does MFGMAX not replace?
MFGMAX keeps the job, the inventory, the price, and the balance on one record. Your accountant still closes the books. This is the history of what changed, not an audit opinion.
How does an evaluation start?
Bring one open order. We walk through it in MFGMAX and show what the record would look like. The start is one process, not every screen at once. QuickBooks stays. Integrations are shown before you commit.