Multi Branch

Streamline multi-branch distribution with Centralised Software

Manage orders, payments, and inventory of multiple branches across different locations in your FMCG, F&B and other goods distribution business. Ensure stock visibility of all branches in one place.
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Super awesome App features and customer service support.
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Syed Rasik

FMCG Distributor, Tamil Nadu

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With Distributo, we have grown 10 times in the last 5 years.
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Sanjeev Khurana

FMCG Distributor, Punjab

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We have grown on monthly revenue of around 200x with Distributo.
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Kishore Nair

F&B Distributor, Bengaluru

Managing stocks across multiple branches
can be challenging & complex

Without automation multiple-branch distribution is hard to manage
and in long run, it may lead to stock shortages & sales losses.

Unable to manage multiple branch field sales routine!

You cannot monitor and manage your multi-branch distribution field sales without proper software.

  • Hard to plan & allocate beat routes for multiple branch sales team
  • Sales team is unclear about their routines & tasks
  • Unable to track field salesforce location
  • Difficult to verify salesmen’s beat visits
  • Salesforce may postpone the customer visits

Difficult to compile transactions across branches!

Reconciling transactions across multiple branches can be time-consuming and error-prone.

  • Maintaining separate records for different branches
  • Manually compiling records and calculations are cumbersome
  • Missing invoices and other vouchers
  • Not knowing the overall outstanding balance
  • Cannot segregate and check branch-wise sales, outstanding, stocks and more

Hard to segregate customers and staff across branches!

Difficult to manage customers & staff of multiple branches without automation.

  • Handling different customer groups for different branches is hard
  • Tough to handle multiple branch customers in one place
  • Cannot give branch-specific permissions to salesmen or staff
  • Difficult to monitor & manage staff and sales teams across the branches

Tough to monitor multiple branch stock movements!

Decline in revenue if inventory is not effectively managed across branches.

  • Cannot track the stock movement from one branch to another
  • Difficult to identify the fast-moving and slow-moving products in different branches
  • Unable to match multiple branch inventory with market demand
  • Forgot to return dead stocks on time

Growth of your multi-branch distribution might suffer without centralised solution

Scaling a multi-branch distribution business is difficult without systematising field sales, billing, collections, inventory, and other operations.

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Productivity of staff declines

Repetitive work can reduce staff productivity in multi-branch distribution.

  • Underutilisation of staff potential
  • Decrease in staff performance
  • Delayed order fulfilment
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Difficult to prepare reports

Compiling all transactions from different branches to prepare reports is a tedious process.

  • Time-consuming work
  • Cannot evaluate sales and sales force performance
  • Hard to segregate and aggregate reports for multiple branches
  • Difficult to monitor stock transfers in inventory across branches
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    Unmonitored field routine

    It is difficult to monitor sales and sales teams in multi-branch distribution businesses.

  • Irregular customer visits
  • Decrease in customer retention
  • Sales team not fulfilling the daily sales targets
  • Increase in DSO (daily sales outstanding)
  • Drop in sales
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    Losing Revenue

    Unmonitored multiple branch distribution inventory & field sales resulting in revenue loss.

  • Losing sales due to stock shortage
  • Dead stocks due to overstock
  • Stock theft or pilferage
  • Under-reporting collection
  • Managing multiple branch distribution in excel sheets is no good

    Excel sheets are prone to human errors and manipulations.

    • Managing specific sheets for different branches
    • Hard to get the stock transfer information between branches
    • Not easy to aggregate and segregate the transactions
    • Easy to manipulate records in excel sheets
    • Not a secured and centralised solution

    Hard to manage multi-branch distribution with simple billing software

    With just billing software you cannot manage the multi-branch distribution business.

    • Cannot manage customers, staff and sales team across branches
    • Difficult to prepare sales, outstanding, inventory reports
    • Hassle while compiling transactions to prepare GST Reports
    • Cannot ensure that the right products are available at the right branches

    Centralise multiple branch distribution business and compile
    transactions in one place

    Automate your multi-branch distribution, including field sales, back office, inventory, and more,
    with Distributo Software to control all branches from one system.

    Compiled Transactions

    Centralise data of all branches in one place

    Manage your multi-branch distribution sales, inventory and more in one place.

    • Separate and manage customers from different branches
    • Manage multiple branch sales teams and their performance in one system
    • Track branch-wise sales team location on map
    • Segregate the brands having different bill books
    • Segregate or aggregate the reports including sales, outstanding, inventory and more
    • Auto-compile transactions to create GST Reports
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    User Access

    Control user access for staff in branches

    Manage staff permission for particular users & user groups as required.

    • Basic permission to users to show access, show and update access, create access, all-access
    • Give status permission for users to change the status of the transactions (Draft → Confirm → Processing → Invoiced → Cancel)
    • Limit the staff access to specific features in software based on their nature of work
      for eg: select only outstanding in the reports module to let user check and download only outstanding reports
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    Stock Management

    Manage & track stocks across the branches

    Monitor the movement of goods across different branches and match stocks to the branch-specific market demand.

    • Manage multiple branches by creating warehouses and adding branches to it
    • Track the stocks in respective warehouse when sales or purchase is made
    • Track the stock transfers across branches by creating stock transfer voucher
    • Track stocks to identify dead, slow-moving stocks for timely returns
    • Get stock reports by product, company & product category in one system for different branches
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    Modernise to scale your multiple-branch distribution business

    Plan beat-routes

    Plan beat-routes for field salesman and organise daily sales routine.

    Salesman tracking

    Monitor field activities by tracking salesman location across beat and branch by sitting in back office.

    User access control

    Control the user access based on their work. Give only branch-specific access to staff.

    Order collection

    Select products with digital catalogue by checking prices, and package units while placing order.

    Payment collection

    Collect payment by checking the outstanding invoice and update collection to back office via Salesman App.

    GST Invoice

    Automate billing to generate and print bulk GST invoices in simple clicks.

    E-Invoices

    Create e-invoices in simple clicks via billing software and avoid re-entering details in portal.

    E-way bills

    Generate e-way bills in simple clicks and ensure fast dispatch of goods.

    Multiple branch inventory

    Manage multiple branch inventory in a single system. Segregate to see branch-wise goods movement and match the market demand.

    Mark customer visits

    Mark customer visits in field with picture and comment in Field Sales App.

    Fast dispatch

    Generate product-wise picking slips and customer-wise packing slips to speed up order processing and dispatch faster.

    Geofence field Ops

    Enable geofencing to restrict salesmen from making transactions away from the set location limit.

    Purchase Management

    Track and manage purchase orders, purchase invoices and payment outs.

    Stock transfers

    Manage and track the stock transfer locations across the branch or warehouse inventory.

    Batch tracking

    Track batch number of purchased or sold goods to maintain sufficient stock. Identify dead or expired stocks for timely returns.

    Customise Invoice

    Customise invoices as per the business needs with dozens of templates.

    Credit control

    Control credit exposure by fixing credit limits to customers based on the customer category or purchase frequency.

    Outstanding report

    Auto-compile transactions to check overall and branch-wise outstanding reports.

    Stock reports

    Check the stocks and their movement for separate branches and optimise inventory to match the market demand.

    Sales reports

    Get ready overall and branch-wise sales reports by product, beat route, company and more.

    GST Report

    Compile transactions of multiple branches and auto-populate details for GST Reports and ease filing returns.

    Fine-tune multi branch inventory to prevent losses & match market demand

    • Keep an eye on moving and non-moving stocks in multiple branch inventory
    • Track the stock transfers to multiple locations to prevent pilferage & stock losses
    • Track to find expiring and slow-moving stocks for timely returns
    • Forecast branch-specific market demand to maintain optimal stock in inventories
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    Manage your multi-branch field sales and back-office operations in one system

    • Give only branch-specific access to sales team & staff
    • Auto-compile transactions across the branches and check the overall sale and outstanding
    • Monitor the sales performance of multiple branches from main office
    • Get the branch-wise outstanding and payment collections in simple clicks
    • Analyse your sales performance across branches to find gaps and opportunities

    See what our customers have to say about us

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    We are able to handle 6000 active customers with the help of Distributo DMS. We have grown 10X within last 5 years.

    Sanjeev Khurana

    FMCG Distributor, Punjab

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    When we started with Distributo, we are 1 brand, and now we are sitting with 6. I would have grown on monthly revenue, around 200X.

    Kishore Nair

    F&B Distributor, Karnataka

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    With Distributo, everything is easy and comfortable. In a day, easily we saved 4-5 hours and we can spend more time on business productivity.

    N Shudeendra

    FMCG Distributor, Karnataka

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    power your distribution business to grow at scale.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Yes, you can transfer the stocks from one branch to another branch with distribution software.

    You can create stock transfer vouchers to track the stock transfers with Distributo Software.

    Yes, you can assign salesman to a specific branch with Distributo Software.

    Yes, you can segregate and check stock availability for multiple branches with Distributo Software.

    Yes, you can manage branch-specific customers in Distributo Software.

    Yes, you can give user access to only one branch with Distributo Software.

    Yes, while creating a new customer you can add the branch to the customer in Distributo App.
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