Orders, inventory, pricing and cash in one place, read every night.
Meet Elixir ↗In a normal week a quote goes out under the agreed price, a rebate goes unclaimed and a truck leaves half full. Nobody notices until the close.
Elixir is an ERP that reads its own ledger, and tells you what changed while there is still time to do something about it.
Elixir reads your own numbers overnight and writes a few plain sentences on what changed since yesterday. Every figure links back to the orders behind it, so any line is one click from its source.
Six places it checks first, every night, in every branch.
Quotes below the agreed price, overrides that became habit, matrix cells nobody has looked at since the last cost change. Named by account and rep.
Every eligible line is matched to its vendor program and claimed. Unclaimed dollars, expiring agreements and missing customers are named before the quarter closes.
Dead stock by bin, backorders against open POs, reorder points that no longer fit the season. What to buy, what to return, and what to stop promising.
Which customers, orders and routes lose money once picking, delivery and returns are counted. Freight charged against freight paid, order by order.
Days to pay by account, credit holds that should have happened, promises to pay that were missed. Who to call today, and with which invoice in hand.
Walk-in quotes at the right price tier, will-call orders that are ready and orders that have sat too long. Counter staff see what the owner sees.
Every trade runs on different numbers, so there is a page for each.
Quote 10482 for Harbor Supply, followed from the first call to the day the cash lands.
Sales writes quote 10482 for Harbor Supply: forty lines on matrix pricing, two overrides. Elixir flags the two overrides while the quote is still open.
The quote becomes the order without rekeying. Stock is allocated from the branch and the yard, and the two short lines go on backorder with a real promise date.
The pick ticket prints in aisle order. When a bin is short, Elixir proposes a substitute from what the customer has bought before.
Delivery joins tomorrow’s route with the nearby stops, and freight is priced from what the run actually costs.
The invoice goes out as the truck leaves, matched line for line to the customer’s PO.
Elixir expects the payment and watches for it. If it slips, the next morning’s note names the account and the invoice to chase.
It gets rekeyed into a quote tool, the ERP, a printed pick sheet, a dispatch whiteboard, the accounting package and a collections spreadsheet. Every hand-off is a chance for a number to change.
The same record carries the price, the stock, the route and the invoice. Nothing is rekeyed, so when one of them drifts Elixir catches it and flags it that morning.
No. Elixir runs beside Prophet 21, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Fishbowl or the spreadsheets that grew around them, and reads what is there before it writes anything. We can also supply the pieces you do not have. If you run an ERP with no CRM, Elixir reads the ERP and gives you the CRM, and the same goes for the warehouse, the counter or purchasing. Keep what works, take what is missing, and move the rest over one process at a time.
The day your team starts using it. Your people ask for a price, a stock position or an account in plain language, so there are no new screens to learn and none of the training a conventional ERP rollout needs. Quoting and order entry get quicker in the first week. The money takes a little longer. The first unclaimed credits, the quotes brought back to the agreed price and the stock you stop carrying usually land within a few weeks, once Elixir has read enough of your own history.
Your team, and the people at Elixir who support your account. Data is held in a dedicated environment for your company, is never pooled with other customers’ data or used to train shared models, and is returned or deleted at the end of an engagement on request.
Every figure in a note links back to the transactions it came from, so you can see in one click why we said it. If we were wrong, the correction is kept and the system reads that way from then on.
Both. A single-branch distributor gets the same reading a twelve-branch one does. Multi-branch companies also see transfers, shared vendors and which branch is carrying which stock.
Tell us what you distribute, how many branches you run and which systems you run them on. We reply within one business day and tell you plainly whether we can help.