One record from order to cash
Distributors lose money in the gaps between systems: stock that is dispatched from one place and never received at another, cash that is short at the depot, fuel that nobody can explain. Predictiv closes those gaps by running the whole business on one record. Predictiv records orders, stock, vehicles, deliveries, receipts and the ledger together, so a figure in one place agrees with the figure in the next.
Warehouses and depots
In inventory you hold stock by organisation, warehouse and bin, and Predictiv treats a van on its route as a stock location of its own. Predictiv moves the stock for transfers between depots, receipts from suppliers and returns from customers on the same record. Staff take stock on ordinary Android phones while the depot keeps trading, with blind counts and a reason on every variance. Negative stock prevention can be switched on per warehouse.
Customers and orders
In sales and distribution you manage customers, price lists, credit and orders. Customers can place orders themselves on the partner portal or over WhatsApp. Each order is priced from the customer’s own contract price list and credit-checked before it exists, so the warehouse team receives each order as a correct document instead of a message that someone retypes. Customers see their own orders, deliveries and statement.
On the road
You run the van day in direct store delivery. Predictiv generates the load from the trip’s orders, the driver delivers against the order line by line, and drivers sell on the route fully offline. Each receipt is fiscalised on the device, and the customer can pay in US dollars, ZWG or by mobile payment. On return, the van is counted blind and the driver declares cash before seeing the expected total. You close each vehicle and day as one reconciled record.
Predictiv applies fleet controls alongside. Odometer readings must be continuous, impossible trips are blocked at capture, fuel is issued against an open pump shift, and a supervisor receives a daily update on a phone. Returnable crates are tracked by counterparty.
Cash and counter sales
Where a depot also sells over the counter, staff use the same products, prices and stock in point of sale. The till works offline, and the cashier fiscalises each receipt on the device and takes mixed tenders in more than one currency.
Why distributors choose Predictiv
Most distributors join a van-sales app, a fleet system, a fiscal device, a portal and an ERP with interfaces and spreadsheets. Predictiv replaces the joins with one platform. Planners stop keying loads, drivers explain a difference once, and the finance team reads one reconciled row per vehicle and day. Predictiv applies the same prices and the same stock to every channel, from the warehouse screen to WhatsApp.