# Industry: retail and ecommerce

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Retail and ecommerce

# Counts, orders, and the numbers that move between systems
Stock, orders and returns all generate the same kind of work: a number that exists in one place and has to end up in another, and a list somebody scans to find the handful of rows that went wrong.

## Who this is
Independent retailers, multi-location stores, ecommerce and marketplace sellers, wholesalers and distributors, and the operations people who reconcile what the systems say against what is actually on the shelf.

## The work that keeps coming back

### Counts and supplier data that get keyed in
A count, a receiving sheet, or a supplier file arrives in one shape and has to end up in another. Someone reshapes it, corrects the obvious problems, and keys it in. The gap between what arrived and what landed is where the discrepancies live.

### The same order, entered twice
An order lands in one channel and gets rekeyed into the system that actually fulfils it. People are acting as the integration between two tools that were never going to talk.

### Channel and supplier reporting
Sales by channel, stock on hand for a supplier, a returns summary for a marketplace. Same sources, same template, same person, every cycle.

### The exceptions in a long list
The short-shipped line, the return that never got received, the SKU whose count has drifted. A few rows matter and someone reads a thousand to find them.

## What we would build first
Often the count or the double entry, because both have a number you can check: what the system says versus what is on the shelf, or how many orders got rekeyed last week. One workflow, scoped and priced on its own.
- Preparing data The cleanup that happens before anything gets loaded The preparation written down as rules that run the same way every time, with only the records that genuinely need a decision put in front of a person.
- Moving information The same record, entered twice A one-way or two-way movement of the fields that actually matter. Not an enterprise integration program.
- Recurring reports The report someone still assembles by hand The gathering, the formatting and the delivery written down as rules, so the report produces itself in the template your clients already recognise.
- Exceptions, not every row Review only what needs a person Rules that surface only what needs a person, with enough context to act.

## When we are the wrong call
If you are looking for a platform migration, a new ERP, or a storefront rebuild, that is not what we do. We build against the systems you have already chosen.

## Not your sector?
The industry matters less than the process. If your team repeats the same steps every week, the work looks the same from where we sit.
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