Industries · Distribution and retail
Know what sold, what sits and where the margin went, at every site, every morning.
A business that buys, holds and sells thousands of lines is bigger than the systems that count them. What sold today and where, what is sitting and since when, which supplier’s price moved and which customer is slipping: it is spread across the depots, the stores, the tills and the people who run them. The brain holds all of it, every site on the same record.
01 · Built from how yours runs
No two chains run the same way. Neither do two brains.
We don’t arrive with a template of your industry. The brain is built from how your operation actually runs, in your own words: your depots and stores, your lines and categories, your suppliers and their terms, your customers and their credit, your prices and your promotions, and what your people know that was never written down. Then it is kept true as the operation changes.
What it holds
02 · See the whole of it
Every depot, every store, one picture.
Each morning, the state of the whole operation, ready before anyone asks for it: what sold at each site, what is running low and what is sitting; where the margin went, by supplier, by category and by site; who owes what and how long they have had it. And any question that crosses the warehouse, the shop floor and the office, answered from the record, with every figure traced to where it came from.
A few of the questions it answers. Yours will be different.
Which lines are running out where, and which are gathering dust?
Where did the margin go this month, by supplier, by category and by site?
If a supplier’s prices moved tomorrow, which lines and which sites would feel it?
03 · Hand off the routine
The morning note is sent before the doors open.
Agents work on the same brain, on the floor’s side of the business and on the commercial side. The morning note that says what sold, what is running out and what is sitting, site by site. The flag when a customer slips past their terms or a supplier’s price moves. The reconciliation of sales against stock and cash, by site, every week.
You decide what it does on its own and what it brings to you first, and that rule lives in the brain, not in a policy document.
A few examples. You choose what runs.
04 · How deep it reaches
From your systems to the shelf.
The brain starts with your systems, your spreadsheets and your people, and keeps going. The tills, the stock counts and the deliveries at every site feed it, so what sold and what arrived is on the record as it happens rather than at month end. Every depot and every store feeds the same brain, and it deepens month by month, into the parts of the operation that never had a system at all.
05 · What gets built
Built for your operation alone.
Meridian is where everyone sees the whole picture. When a part of the operation needs a screen of its own, we build it for that operation alone, on the same brain, so it works from the same record as everything else. Nothing else in the business changes.
Two examples
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