Industries · Distributors and importers
GradeBuilt
Your stock is physical. Your business is not.
Stock on one side, the relationships that decide orders on the other.
IdentityEvery unit, not every line
01
What runs the business today
- Today
- Accounting software, a spreadsheet and a mailbox; every transaction entered twice.
- Question
- Every unit of this lot, where is it now? A week of email.
02
Every unit has an identity
The codes are already on the boxes. Reading them changes nothing in the warehouse.
(01)09506000134352(17)270831(10)A4419(21)000247
- (01) GTIN
- 09506000134352Which product: the same for every unit of the line.
- (17) Expiry
- 2027-08-31Encoded YYMMDD; carried by the unit itself.
- (10) Lot
- A4419The batch. A recall is answered with this field.
- (21) Serial
- 000247This exact unit.
- Authenticity
- Tamper-resistant NFC tags that authenticate against the server.
03
Knowing what is where
- Received
- Checked against the order; shelf and site, not a quantity.
- Day 0
- Consigned
- At a hospital, still yours.
- Day 34
- Used
- Recorded at the point of use.
- Day 61
04
What runs, each with its grade
Each one, with its grade
| Capability | What it does | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Identity and custody | Per-unit GS1 identity; every movement recorded | Built |
| Goods receipt | A checklist, including EU MDR Article 14(2) | Built |
| Quarantine and non-conformance | First-class states for stock that is wrong | Built |
| Offline field flows | Phone workflows without signal | Built |
| Role separation | Receiver, releaser, exception approver | Built |
| Label and document reading | At goods-in | Built |
| Product presence | Product pages in the schema search and assistants read | Built |
| Ordering portals | Hospital supply teams see consignment, history, documents | Built |
| Invoicing | Hands line data to your accounting system; never numbers an invoice | Built |
05
Why one company does both
The physical layer
Units, lots, shelves, custody
The join
The same identity, used by both
The unit in a theatre is the unit a product page, a portal and an answer engine describe.
The commercial layer
Discovery, portals, publishing
Take one product line, end to end
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