A concept built for CJR Wholesale Grocers by Cilantric · not your live system · sample data · yours to keep
🚚 CJR Wholesale Grocers Since 1993 · Mississauga DC

Order intake · 6,000+ SKUs · ~2,500 retailers

Every order still gets typed in by hand.

Phone calls, emailed lists, PDF sheets, JotForm sign-ups, they all land in different places, and someone in the office re-keys each one into the OMS before a truck can be loaded. This is a concept for the layer that reads those orders where they arrive and drops them into one clean queue, already matched to SKUs. No new portal for your retailers. No re-typing for your staff.

See it parse an order Show me the hours saved A working mock · sample orders · built to show the flow
6,000+
SKUs to match against
~2,500
retailers ordering their own way
4
inboxes an order can arrive in

The intake console

Messy in. One clean queue out.

Left is how orders actually arrive today. Hit parse and watch each one land in the queue as a structured order, retailer, SKUs, cases, dollar value, ready to push to the OMS. Sample orders, real flow.

Raw inboxas it arrives
VoicemailBayside Variety
"Hi it's Tony... need my usual dairy plus 4 cases of the 2% and uh two of the orange juice, Thursday truck please."
EmailMeaford Foodmart
10x Whole Milk 4L 6x Butter salted 1 case eggs LG - Sandra
PDF attachBlue Mtn Grocer
order_sheet_wk29.pdf cream 35% .... 8 yogurt asst .... 12 cheddar blocks . 5
JotFormNew: Craigleith C-Store
New account request + first order: soft drinks 2 skids, chips 4 cases, water 6 cases.
Back-office order queueOMS-ready
Empty. Hit "Parse the inbox" below.
Orders queued0
Lines matched to SKUs0
Re-keying time saved0 min

Where the hours leak

The cost isn't the software. It's the re-typing.

01

Four front doors

Phone, email, PDF, JotForm. Each retailer orders the way they've always ordered, and every channel needs a human to translate it into the OMS.

02

The SKU hunt

"The usual 2%" has to become the right code out of 6,000. Staff know it cold, but it's minutes per order, times thousands of orders a week.

03

The errors you eat

A mis-keyed case, a missed line, a wrong truck day. Every one is a credit, a redelivery, or a callback, thin-margin mistakes that add up quietly.

The math, not the buzzwords

Grow the volume without growing the office.

You don't need me to tell you AI is a thing. You need to know whether this puts hours and dollars back. So here's the arithmetic, in your numbers, with placeholders you can correct in about a minute of conversation.

The point of the beachhead is small and provable: take one channel, say the emailed and PDF orders, and let the queue do the re-keying. Measure it. If it holds, we widen it.

Orders re-keyed by hand / day~300
Minutes of handling each~4 min
Office-hours spent typing / day~20 hrs
Cut by auto-parsing the queue~60%
Hours handed back / week~60 hrs
Placeholder figures for illustration. Real ones come from your intake counts, and change the whole picture, which is exactly the 20-minute conversation.

Thirty-two years, three DCI Partner-of-the-Year wins, and a whole day still spent typing.

That's not a knock, it's the opposite. A business this dialed-in on the warehouse and the road is exactly where a quiet operating layer pays for itself. The queue above is a mock built on sample orders. The real version runs on yours.

Watch it parse again