Every time you add an overseas channel, your sales sheet gains a row. Operations get complicated much faster. When orders live in email, inventory on the logistics provider's screen and purchase orders in Excel, sooner or later “How many units can we sell right now?” becomes hard to answer on the spot.
If Excel is getting hard to hold on to, it may be time to look at an ERP. This article covers five questions to ask when choosing a vendor, and how Linkup Infotech answers each of them.
Written by Linkup Infotech
Five things that break first as overseas channels grow
Different stock numbers in every country
Orders sit in email and B2B portals, while stock sits in the 3PL system. To know what you can sell now, you have to reconcile several files.
ODM purchase orders that move separately from sales
When lead times and MOQs aren't linked to the sales plan, you swing between stockouts and excess stock.
Scattered LOTs and expiry dates
It's hard to find right away which LOT went to which country and which channel.
Profit by country and channel that shows up late
Real profit after logistics costs, exchange rates and returns only appears once the month-end close is done.
Evidence you re-collect every time it's requested
Product, packaging and supplier documents are scattered across departments, so you have to gather them again for every overseas regulatory request.
Five questions to ask when choosing an ERP vendor
- Can the system hold our export operation as it is?
In Odoo, sales, inventory and purchasing data are handled in one system. Orders and available stock by country, channel and warehouse, ODM purchase orders and lead times, LOTs and expiry dates, and multi-currency sales, purchases and costs are linked through the same data. - Do we have to change everything at once?
No. We start with the single biggest bottleneck, or with one country or one channel. You can also keep your current ERP, online store and logistics systems and connect them. - How are Korean business processes handled?
Linkup Infotech develops and runs its own modules for e-tax invoices, cards, bank transactions, and SMS and KakaoTalk notifications. Domestic and overseas work can be handled together in one system. - What about our processes that the system does not have?
Odoo can be customized only where needed. Linkup Infotech does the development itself. We don't build everything up front; we add what is needed first. - Who looks after it after go-live?
The same team continues with operations and improvements.
Regulatory documents are also easier to find when product, packaging and supplier data are kept in one place. This does not replace legal review.
Start with one bottleneck, not a full switch
- We review your sales countries, channels, warehouses and current systems, and find the biggest bottleneck.
- We agree on the work to solve first, its scope and the schedule.
- We connect orders, inventory and purchasing for one country or one channel first.
- We run it together in real operations so data accumulates.
Contact us about your operations first
Linkup Infotech reviews your sales country and channel structure, stock locations, ODM ordering method and current systems with you, and points out where the biggest bottleneck is.