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OperationsDistribution and Dealers

Run your channel: distributors, retailers, beats, schemes, field reps and claims, with a partner portal.

Distribution and Dealers is distributor management and field sales for FMCG and consumer-durables makers. It keeps your channel partners and the retailers they serve on territories and beats, prices orders with channel price lists and a schemes engine, turns distributor orders into Books invoices shipped from your warehouse, gives field reps an offline mobile day, and settles claims as Books credit notes.

Key capabilities

  • Distributors, retailers, territories and beats
  • Schemes engine with a simulator and budgets
  • Primary orders with Books credit checks
  • Distributor stock and secondary billing
  • Offline field rep app with GPS check-in
  • Claims settled as Books credit notes

Dashboard and live view

Sales heads see primary and secondary sales, the field force and open approvals in one place, and follow reps through the day on a map.

  • Primary and secondary sales this month against the same days last month
  • Field force today with calls, productive calls and value booked, and scheme budget used
  • Orders over credit, open claims, new outlets and photos waiting for a decision
  • Coverage, strike rate and lines per call
  • Live view of every rep’s day, beat, planned versus visited outlets and last check-in on a map

Partners, outlets, territories and beats

Keep the whole channel in one place, from CFA to retailer.

  • CFAs, super stockists, distributors and dealers with GSTIN, PAN, KYC, margins and serving warehouse
  • Retailers with channel, class, geo-tag, beat, credit days and onboarding photo
  • Duplicate warnings on same phone, GSTIN or a nearby name match
  • Zone, region, area and territory tree that also limits what managers and reps see
  • Beats with visit days and an outlet sequence that can be optimised
  • Cooler and visi-cooler assets tracked at each outlet

Products and price lists

Price every order the same way on the web, in the portal and on the phone.

  • SKUs linked to stock items, with brand, pack, case size, MRP, shelf life and must-sell or focus flags
  • Primary (price to distributor) and secondary (price to retailer) lists by partner, territory, channel or class
  • Quantity slabs and validity dates, with the most specific list winning
  • Retailer prices derived from MRP and margin when no secondary list exists
  • Price change log used for price-drop claims

Schemes and the simulator

Run trade schemes with budgets, and test them before they go live.

  • Slab, buy X get Y, value, volume, combo, target (QPS) and display schemes
  • Stacking rules: exclusive schemes, stack groups and best of group
  • Budgets with alerts and automatic stop or cap
  • Simulator for a cart, a replay of a draft scheme on past orders, and ROI after it ends
  • Retailer loyalty and trade campaigns run with Marketing

Primary orders

Follow stock from your warehouse to the distributor.

  • Distributor orders from the portal, a rep, an admin, telesales or a suggested replenishment
  • Credit limit and overdue checks from Books, with approval when exceeded
  • Books sales order, warehouse pick-pack-ship and invoice on dispatch
  • Distributor goods receipt into their stock, with shortages raised as claims

Retailer orders, distributor stock and collections

Follow stock from the distributor to the retailer, and the money back.

  • Secondary orders billed by the distributor, load sheets by beat, and retailer returns
  • Van sales billed on the spot from stock on the van
  • Retailer ordering app for outlets to order directly
  • Distributor stock ledger by batch and expiry, or closing-stock submissions
  • Collections in cash, UPI or cheque recorded at the outlet

Field force: reps, journey plans, visits and photos

Give reps a planned day that works offline, and managers a clear record of it.

  • Monthly journey plans approved by the area manager, with leave from People
  • Day start and end as People attendance, with GPS only after the rep opts in
  • Outlet check-in with geofence, orders with schemes applied, must-sell prompts and suggested orders
  • Stock audits, merchandising photos verified by managers, and no-order reasons
  • Surveys at the outlet built in Forms
  • Onboard new outlets with a photo for manager approval

Targets

Set targets for reps and partners and see who is ahead.

  • Monthly targets per rep
  • Rep leaderboard by value, strike rate and coverage
  • Badges for reps who hit their goals
  • Journey-plan adherence and beat productivity

Claims

Validate claims against real sales and stock, and settle them in Books.

  • Scheme, target, display, damage, expiry, price-drop and transit claims
  • Validation against secondary sales, the scheme ledger and distributor stock
  • Approval by the area manager and admin, with finance above a limit
  • Settlement as GST or financial credit notes in Books
  • Claims ageing by 0-7, 8-15, 16-30 and 30+ days

Distributor and dealer portal

Let partners serve themselves on the web.

  • Place orders with channel prices and schemes applied
  • Orders, invoices, payments and statement from Books
  • Running schemes and their own claims
  • Stock, retailer billing and their retailer list

Reports, sync review and settings

Measure the channel and keep field data clean.

  • Primary versus secondary by partner, territory and month, and stock cover in days
  • Unique outlets billed, bill cut, must-sell penetration, scheme ROI and budget burn
  • Sync review of repriced or conflicting orders from offline phones
  • Geofence radius, working hours for GPS, photo kinds and approval limits in settings
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Distribution in the product

India

Indian rules, built in

Pricing, schemes and claims follow GST and Indian trade practice. Treatments are settings, so your CA can confirm them.

How Thoshika handles Indian compliance

  • Place of supply worked out for primary and secondary invoices
  • Free goods shown as lines at list price with a full discount
  • Post-supply discounts settled as GST credit notes or financial credit notes per scheme
  • Section 194R benefit ledger per dealer with threshold flags
  • Configurable distributor and super stockist margins, and FY April to March reporting
Mobile

Distribution on Android and iOS

Distribution is in the Thoshika app, under the app switcher, for field reps and sales managers. The rep’s day works offline.

About the mobile apps

On the phone

  • Today: start and end the day, the planned beat, outlets in sequence with status, and the day’s KPIs
  • Outlet visit: check in, take an order with schemes applied, stock audit, photos, collection or a no-order reason
  • New outlet with photo and location for manager approval
  • Day pack and outbox on the phone, synced when back online with repriced lines flagged
  • Team today for managers, with each rep’s progress
Who uses it

Roles in Distribution

Every person signs in once. Roles decide what they see, and can be limited to a location, branch or other scope where the app supports it.

Distribution admin

Owns settings, masters, price lists and schemes, approves orders and claims across all territories.

Sales manager

Runs their territories: partners, outlets, beats, journey plans, approvals, photo checks and the live view.

Field sales rep

Works their beats on mobile: visits, orders, audits, photos, collections and new outlets.

Distributor or dealer

Uses the portal for orders, invoices, payments, claims, stock and retailer billing.

Finance admin

Approves credit excesses and large claims, and oversees scheme budgets.

See Distribution with your own processes

Distribution is available on its own or as part of Thoshika One, with every app for every employee.