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Wholesale distributor: the whole day

Chaminda, warehouse lead at a distributor (sample business).

  • 06:00 to 19:00
  • 8 tours
  • 36 steps

The day, hour by hour

  1. At 06:00

    Warehouse leadStart of the day

    Five shop orders on one lorry, and it leaves at seven.

    Picking the lorry load. Yesterday's orders become one pick wave on the warehouse phone, and a short line is flagged before the lorry goes.

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  2. At 08:00

    Sales rep

    Six shops on the round today, and every order must be within credit.

    The rep's round of shops. Planned visits on the phone, a check-in at the shop, the account at a glance, and an order sent inside the credit limit.

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  3. At 09:30

    Sales office

    Every order gets three discounts in a row, and the paper has to match to the cent.

    Three discounts, one after another. A trade discount, a middle discount chosen per order and a cash discount, each taken from what is left, printed line by line on the quote and the invoice.

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  4. At 10:30

    Office

    The office prints invoices on a dot-matrix with carbon copies. Light grey text comes out faint.

    Print on the printer you have. Tell this computer which printer it has, Laser / inkjet, Dot-matrix or Thermal, and every invoice prints to suit it.

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  5. At 13:00

    Goods in

    The mill lorry is here. Is everything on the order actually on it?

    Goods in from the mill. Scan the purchase order, count against it, flag what is short, type a new cost where the invoice changed, and the stock is up when it is saved.

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  6. At 15:00

    Finance

    Shops owe lakhs. Who should be called first?

    Shops that owe, oldest first. Money owed by age, the shops behind it oldest first, and reminders on a schedule that stop when the invoice is paid.

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  7. At 17:00

    Driver

    Four shops before dark, and the office needs to know where each one is.

    Deliveries on the road. Each shop's stop on the driver's phone, with the address, the order and a call button; the office marks it delivered.

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  8. At 19:00

    Owner

    Does the cash in the drawer match what the system says?

    Closing the day. What the system recorded, the cash counted against what should be there, a note on a small difference, then the day is closed.

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