Need an app to "digitize" supply chain for food wholesale/fulfillment & distribution

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Hello community, I am new to the forum and trying out the Glide Apps for the first time. More specifically, I am looking for help to setup an app for the wholesale grocery distribution market in select US cities. The MVP will include;

  1. Directory of retail store members on our network - Name, Address, phone, email, website, etc
  2. App/Map search - by US State, City, Zip
  3. Master Inventory (each retail store can place orders based on this list)
  4. Logistics/distribution

I am an importer of specialty foods and i offer warehousing and fulfillment/distribution services to retailers who place orders with me.

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Hello @Hippopo , welcome to Glide’s community forum.

At first glance it seems like Glide would be a good solution to develop your MVP. Have you had a look at the template store to see if some templates already seem to suit your needs, at least partially? You could download a few templates and see how these are built. From there, you could either build your MVP from scratch or adapt one of these existing template.

Glide template store

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Thank you for the prompt feedback. Yes most of the templates exist, I have even tried some out. I just need expert help to “integrate” them into one app. Is this possible?

Regards,

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multiple stores inventory??? keep in mind that Glide can do only 25k rows…
you can not combine templates… it has to be one… made from scratch

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Two further sources to help you get started:

If you would prefer hiring an expert to help you, head over to the Glide experts page.

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Thank you… okay i need to hire an expert then. Appreciate the quick responses.

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Thanks again. I have reviewed and even built some templates, I just need some extra step to get this over the line. Expert help looks like it.

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hire us button

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Okay reviewing your company profile. Is specialty food supply chain your turf?

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I did restaurants, eCommerce…and some more similar.

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Fantastic. Are there references I can look at?

Think of me as the “distribution” center supplying the restaurants with their imported shipments.

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how many products do you carry? so it is like a wholesale with delivery?

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Couple 100… Max 1000.
After that, “on-demand” requests from the stores/restaurants. I basically source, procure, warehouse and ship. Nothing close to 25K product rows though

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is not only about products amount… all orders will be a separate record… meaning 1 row for 1 product ordered for each customer, each time… that might fill up your 25k limit fast…
unless you will archive detailed orders, and keep only summary invoices in Glide App

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Now I understand. makes sense. This may be a challenge. I also want to offer frontend for direct consumers to order products from the stores so this really is a B2B2C model

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Glide might choke on that… :wink: but what we can do… is to have separate Apps with an integrated google sheets database

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:cry:

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have a supply chain App, direct sale app, and logistic app… all based on the same google spreadsheet… which can handle over 2mil records

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Which was what I started with but thought i could “integrate” all 3 - reason why i came here. Give me a few days to mockup some more and then I’ll come to you with details. Solution still works for MVP anyhow.

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ok… just calculate the rows you need for at least 1-year operation… to close tax, and salaries… in one spreadsheet… or you can archive every month…