ERP for Trading and Distribution

ERP for Trading & Distribution Industry

Success in the trading and distribution industry depends on timely product delivery and consistent service quality. Lighthouse ERP for Trading & Distribution Industry empowers businesses with an advanced delivery system through structured product categorization, intelligent inventory controls, and efficient service cycle management driving long-term and sustainable business growth.

With 38 years of proven expertise, Lighthouse ERP has been trusted for delivering industry-specific, comprehensive, and reliable trading ERP solutions. Tailored to meet the complete needs of trading and distribution businesses, Lighthouse ERP software for trading ensures operations are handled with accuracy, efficiency, and effectiveness. Its deep technical expertise and ability to map critical industry requirements have been the foundation of its success, making it a dependable partner for businesses aiming for growth and operational excellence.

ERP for Trading & Distribution Industry
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Challenges of Trading & Distribution Industry

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Lack of Clarity in Supplier and Logistics Tracking

Disconnected systems limit visibility into supplier performance, lead times, and logistics, making proactive planning difficult.

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Eroding Profit Margins Due to Pricing & Data Errors

Legacy tools or spreadsheets lead to outdated price lists and errors, affecting profitability and mismanaging margin-sensitive products.

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Poor Customer Service from Fragmented Data

Without a unified system, customer-facing teams struggle to access order history, stock levels, and dispatch timelines, causing delays and dissatisfaction.

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Repetitive Data Entry Across Departments

Re-entering information across disconnected systems increases redundancy, errors, and wasted effort so integrated document management is necessary.

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Inefficient Vendor Negotiations

Lack of vendor performance data limits negotiations power and prevents informed decisions.

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Difficulty in Controlling Operational Costs

Distributors without centralized ERP systems struggle to track costs across departments, leading to overspending or misallocation.

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Benefits of ERP for Trading & Distribution Industry

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Connected Supply Chain with Real-Time Tracking

Trading ERP integrates supplier performance, stock data, and logistics into a centralized dashboard, enabling proactive planning and better collaboration.

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Consistent and Profitable Pricing Structures

ERP software for distributors ensures consistent pricing with updated data, preventing errors that impact margins.

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360-degree customer View of Quick Response

ERP integrates CRM, sales, inventory, and shipping data empowering customer service teams with real-time insights for faster and more accurate responses.

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Unified Database Eliminating Redundancy

All data is entered once and accessed everywhere, ensuring a single source of truth and eliminating duplicate records.

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Data-Backed Vendor Performance Analysis

The system tracks supplier leads times, price trends, and delivery reliability enabling informed negotiations and better vendor management.

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Integrated Financial Oversight and Budget Accuracy

ERP for distribution companies provides real-time visibility of costs across departments, ensuring budget accuracy and better financial control.

Features of Lighthouse ERP software for the Trading & Distribution Industry

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Flexible Sourcing & Purchase Management

Manage item discounts, import purchase price lists from Excel, and auto-generate purchase orders based on stock and reorders levels.

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Seamless Stock Transfers

Manage product, warehouse, and location transfers with options to change unit of measure, quality, or type, and include additional costs in the transferred stock.

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Issues, Returns & Adjustments

Track stock movements to and from customers and suppliers, manage returns, and perform stock adjustments with full accounting control.

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Stock Valuation & Revaluation

Maintain accurate inventory value with periodic stock revaluation and accounting of value changes.

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Item Classification & Dynamic Control

Classify items across categories and groups and manage dynamic quantity conversion factors for flexible inventory tracking.

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Inventory Insights & Analysis

Identify performing vs. non-performing stock assets, conduct ABC/fast/slow-moving analysis, track inventory turnover, and study stock values with detailed reporting.

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Stock Planning & Control

Easily set Min-Max levels, reorder points, safety stock, last purchase rate history, and minimum order quantities for better stock planning.

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Comprehensive Sales Management

Handle buyer accounts (single or group), manage multi-location consignee deliveries, and generate complete sales cycles from quotation → sales order → challan → invoice.

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Finance & Compliance Control

Send reminders for outstanding balances, perform debtor/creditor age analysis (month-wise & bill-wise), and manage compliance with excise, Mod VAT, sales tax, and service tax.

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Integrated Service Management

Schedule services, manage job carts, record daily service reports, and generate service billing within ERP system.

Core Module in ERP for Trading & Distribution Industry

Finance

Control your bottom line and prepare for change in the future with Lighthouse ERP financial management and accounting system. It covers financials, banking, investments hedging and commodities, payroll, cost and budget accounting, fixed assets. The flexible multi-level accounting structure promotes real-time group visibility or for an independent unit key capabilities include General ledger with multiple charts of accounts, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, cash flow management, bank management general expenses, fixed asset management.

Material Management

Seamlessly manage the purchasing process from purchase requests, orders, deliveries, subcontractor orders. Approval process from order through receipt and invoicing. Lighthouse ERP has multiple-location, multi-warehouse, multi-store management with total traceability of inventory quantities and lot and batch numbers. Advanced features for supplier and product classification, pricing and discontinue, tolerance, inventory balances and reorder level, lead days and stock movement.

Sales & Distribution

Complete access to information concerning products, price lists, discounts, and transport. Issue customer quotations, book orders, order acknowledgements, manage contracts, view and allocate goods from stock, dispatch and invoicing of goods. Lighthouse ERP provides a 360-degree view of their customer and go from quote to cash effortlessly advanced features for Inventory enquiries and allocations, brokerage sales commissions, multi-level credit control, pricing and discounts, customer returns, invoicing and reminders.

After Sales Service

Your after-sales technologies, field repair personnel and on-site operations need to communicate with customers, but also with the ERP system, to report issues, order parts, write service reports, etc. Key features include complete cycle of service management service scheduling, execution (job cart), daily service reports, and service billing.

Logistics & Freight

ERP for Logistics helps in tracking goods and stock at different transit points at ports, depots, warehouses, storage yards and godowns. Detailed workflow for freight contract against sales or purchase order, freight advice and payment against contract, cash or credit-based freight management.

CRM

Get advanced insights as well as core sales force automation functions to go beyond traditional CRM. Your sales teams will sell smarter and provide exceptional service. Full integration with sales, inventory and finance provides a 360-degree understanding of customer activity all within a single business management system. Advanced features for customer status and follow up, sale force automation, warranty/ service order management, and solution knowledge base.

Control your bottom line and prepare for change in the future with Lighthouse ERP financial management and accounting system. It covers financials, banking, investments hedging and commodities, payroll, cost and budget accounting, fixed assets. The flexible multi-level accounting structure promotes real-time group visibility or for an independent unit key capabilities include General ledger with multiple charts of accounts, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, cash flow management, bank management general expenses, fixed asset management.
Seamlessly manage the purchasing process from purchase requests, orders, deliveries, subcontractor orders. Approval process from order through receipt and invoicing. Lighthouse ERP has multiple-location, multi-warehouse, multi-store management with total traceability of inventory quantities and lot and batch numbers. Advanced features for supplier and product classification, pricing and discontinue, tolerance, inventory balances and reorder level, lead days and stock movement.
Complete access to information concerning products, price lists, discounts, and transport. Issue customer quotations, book orders, order acknowledgements, manage contracts, view and allocate goods from stock, dispatch and invoicing of goods. Lighthouse ERP provides a 360-degree view of their customer and go from quote to cash effortlessly advanced features for Inventory enquiries and allocations, brokerage sales commissions, multi-level credit control, pricing and discounts, customer returns, invoicing and reminders.
Your after-sales technologies, field repair personnel and on-site operations need to communicate with customers, but also with the ERP system, to report issues, order parts, write service reports, etc. Key features include complete cycle of service management service scheduling, execution (job cart), daily service reports, and service billing.
ERP for Logistics helps in tracking goods and stock at different transit points at ports, depots, warehouses, storage yards and godowns. Detailed workflow for freight contract against sales or purchase order, freight advice and payment against contract, cash or credit-based freight management.
Get advanced insights as well as core sales force automation functions to go beyond traditional CRM. Your sales teams will sell smarter and provide exceptional service. Full integration with sales, inventory and finance provides a 360-degree understanding of customer activity all within a single business management system. Advanced features for customer status and follow up, sale force automation, warranty/ service order management, and solution knowledge base.

ERP for Trading & Distribution Industry