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Wholesale & Distribution

Your margin moves in small steps across a large catalogue. Basalt matches supplier references to yours, turns a customer order sent as a PDF into clean lines, and flags a buy price that has drifted before anyone confirms it. Buyers spend the week acting on the data instead of repairing it.

Where your team’s time goes

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The same steel bar is 4471-B at one supplier and BR-4471 at another, so every price update starts with a matching job.

Supplier language has to be reconciled with your catalogue before a buyer can even assess what changed.

Where your team’s time goes

02 / 04

A customer sends an order as a PDF and someone retypes it, from their names into yours.

Each line needs a product, unit and warehouse match, turning a routine order into careful manual entry.

Where your team’s time goes

03 / 04

A buy price goes up on a confirmation and nobody notices until the margin report.

A small increase can pass unnoticed across a large catalogue and erode margin before the monthly review exposes it.

Where your team’s time goes

04 / 04

Reorder levels set at go-live that nobody has looked at since.

Demand and supplier lead times move, while old settings keep generating decisions from a picture that is no longer current.

Workflows

Examples we can scope around your team’s work, Odoo setup and other tools. Your team reviews the agent’s work and approves the next step.

Workflow 1

Turn customer order PDFs into draft quotes

Your team retypes customer orders, matching their product codes to yours line by line.

What the agent does: Reads a customer’s order attachment and matches its lines to the right products and account.

  • Customer product references matched
  • Previous orders used for context
  • Quote saved as a draft for approval

Workflow 2

Catch supplier price rises before you approve

A small price increase slips through on a busy day. You only notice when the margin has already fallen.

What the agent does: Compares quoted prices with previous purchases and the supplier’s agreed prices.

  • Price changes shown against history
  • Buyer alerted before approval
  • Increases grouped for negotiation

Workflow 3

Find the reorder settings worth reviewing

Demand and delivery times have changed, but your reorder settings still reflect last year’s business.

What the agent does: Compares stock movements and actual supplier delivery times with the current settings, then explains which products need a buyer’s review.

  • Settings flagged with the history behind them
  • Demand changes separated from supplier delays
  • Proposed adjustments ready for buyer approval

Deployment and results

Does our whole process need to be in Odoo already?

No. In the Map phase, we identify all the tools you use to run a specific workflow. We then move into the Deploy phase from there.

Does Basalt replace our Odoo integrator?

No. Your integrator maintains and develops Odoo. Basalt handles the AI layer on top: your workflows across Odoo modules and other software. Basalt works with the integrator where scopes meet.

How long before the first workflow is live?

Most companies have a first workflow in production within the first month. Timelines depend primarily on how quickly a client provides data access and approvals.

How do you measure results and ROI?

We determine the baseline, typically how many hours a workflow takes today, before deployment and compare the same workflow after it’s live. Ultimately, it depends on what we uncovered as your most important goals during the Map phase. We can also track metrics like cost to scale, process adoption, error reduction and qualitative team feedback. This is how we determine the result and ROI.

Bring us one workflow that takes too much time.

In 30 minutes, we will see whether it is worth mapping.

Book 30 minutes
  • Start with a real task
  • Look at the modules involved
  • Identify the control points
  • Choose a clear next step