Thin margins do not forgive a system that guesses.

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Wholesale & Distribution Software in Thrapston

Need distribution in Thrapston? CubeERP implements and supports wholesale & distribution software across Thrapston, Northampton, Kettering and Wellingborough and the wider Northamptonshire area.

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Being well within our regular travel radius from Olney, Thrapston is somewhere we get to regularly.

Discovery, training and go-live are all better done in the room, and at 18 miles that is entirely practical.

Distribution is a volume business with narrow margins, which means the difference between a good year and a bad one is usually operational rather than commercial. CubeERP is built for that reality: order entry fast enough for a trade counter, pricing complex enough for two hundred contract customers, stock accurate enough to promise against, and despatch integrated enough that nobody retypes an address into a courier site. Landed cost, supplier rebates, back-to-back ordering, drop shipping and returns are treated as normal distribution practice rather than as awkward edge cases.

  • Live

    Landed cost, per receipt

  • Fast

    Counter and phone order entry

  • Auto

    Carrier labels, manifests and tracking

What it does

Inside wholesale & distribution software

The parts of CubeERP that make up distribution. Everything here shares one database, so nothing needs re-keying between them.

  • Order entry built for speed

    Keyboard-first entry, part-number and customer-reference search, order templates, repeat orders and quick-add from history - for people taking orders on the phone at pace.

  • Trade pricing that scales

    Price bands, customer-specific rates, quantity breaks, promotions, matrix pricing and cost-plus, with a clear precedence and margin visible on the line as it is entered.

  • Multi-warehouse availability

    Stock by location with transfer lead times, so an order can be sourced from the right site or split, and the promise date reflects the sourcing decision.

  • Despatch and carriers

    Pick, pack, label and manifest with the main parcel and pallet networks, with tracking pushed back to the order and emailed to the customer automatically.

  • Back-to-back and drop ship

    Order-to-supplier linkage for non-stocked lines, with direct delivery to the customer where it makes sense and the margin still calculated correctly.

  • Rebates and landed cost

    Supplier rebate schemes accrued and claimed, and freight, duty and clearance apportioned into item cost - because in distribution, list price minus buying price is not margin.

In practice

Problems this actually solves

Anonymised, but not invented. These are the situations businesses describe to us before they change anything.

  • Margin that only appeared annually

    The situation

    A wholesaler priced from a list built on landed cost calculated once a year. Currency movement and freight increases meant several product groups had been sold below true cost for months.

    What changed

    Landed cost is now calculated per receipt. Two product groups were repriced immediately, and pricing rules were changed to work from live cost rather than an annual snapshot.

  • A trade counter that queued

    The situation

    Counter staff used the same slow order screen as the office. At busy times customers waited, and regulars started phoning their orders through instead of visiting.

    What changed

    A fast counter mode with account lookup, repeat orders and immediate despatch cut transaction time considerably. Counter footfall recovered over the following quarter.

  • Rebates left unclaimed

    The situation

    Supplier rebate agreements were tracked in a spreadsheet by one person. When they left, several schemes went unclaimed for two quarters before anybody noticed.

    What changed

    Rebate schemes are held in the system and accrued automatically as purchases are made. Claims are produced on schedule and reconciled against what was actually received.

Local coverage

Distribution across Northamptonshire

We cover Thrapston and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, High Street, Midland Road, Grove Road and Market Road, across the NN14 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in Northampton, Kettering, Wellingborough and Corby and elsewhere in Northamptonshire.

Postcode districts

  • NN14

Areas we cover

Town Centre, High Street, Midland Road, Grove Road, Market Road, Huntingdon Road, Thrapston Business Park and Islip.

Getting to you

Roughly18miles from our Olney office

Discovery, training and go-live are done on site as standard - not because it looks good on a proposal, but because most of what a system needs to know is learned in the building.

Distribution elsewhere in Northamptonshire

All of Northamptonshire

How it happens

What implementation actually involves

The same process wherever you are, and for Thrapston it is done in person.

  1. 1

    Discovery

    A structured session mapping how you work now - the systems, the spreadsheets and the bits held together by one person’s memory. We come back with what the platform covers as standard, what needs configuration, and what needs building.

  2. 2

    Configuration

    Your sites, warehouses, price lists, approval limits, document templates, workflows and permissions set up to match the business - not a demo tenant with your logo dropped on it.

  3. 3

    Data migration

    Customers, suppliers, parts, bills of materials, price lists, open orders and stock balances brought across and reconciled. We migrate, you check the numbers against the old system, and only then do we cut over.

  4. 4

    Training & rollout

    Role-based training so the order desk learns the order desk and the warehouse learns the warehouse, with a pilot group first where it makes sense. Documentation and short screen recordings left behind for new starters.

  5. 5

    Ongoing support

    UK support from the people who built the platform, with a named contact, agreed response times, and a product roadmap you can influence.

You might call it something else

Distribution goes by a lot of names - if you are searching for any of these, this is the page you wanted.

Wholesale softwareDistribution softwareTrade counter softwareWholesale management systemDistribution ERP

Questions

The things people ask first

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  • Yes. Counter mode handles account and cash sales, immediate despatch, card payment and printed receipts, on the same stock and pricing as everything else.

  • Yes. A customer portal for order placement, order history and statements, plus API integration with the common e-commerce platforms so web orders follow the same rules as any other.

  • Returns are booked against the original order, inspected on receipt, and credited or replaced with the reason recorded. Return rates by product and customer are reported, which frequently changes a buying decision.

  • Yes. Buy by pallet, stock by box, sell by each, with conversion factors held per item and the maths done consistently everywhere it appears.

  • Yes, for the common formats - orders in, despatch advices and invoices out - with label formats matched to each customer’s requirements so chargebacks stop being a monthly cost.

Related

Other things we can put right

Also available in Thrapston.

Part of a bigger system

Distribution is one part of CubeERP. You can start here and switch the rest on later - it is the same system, not a separate purchase bolted on.

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