# Need an app to "digitize" supply chain for food wholesale/fulfillment & distribution **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202 "2022-02-07T01:49:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hippopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Hippopo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hippopo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/1 "2022-02-07T01:49:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 1:56am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/2 "2022-02-07T01:56:16Z")
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](https://www.glideapps.com/templates) ---
**Author:** ![Hippopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Hippopo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hippopo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/3 "2022-02-07T01:59:55Z")
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, ---
**Author:** ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/4 "2022-02-07T02:02:41Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/5 "2022-02-07T02:04:00Z")
Two further sources to help you get started: - [Glide Learn](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/start-here/welcome): it’s Glide manual. It’s well structured, the explanation with text, images and video are well done. Recommended. - [Best practices do’s and dont’s](https://community.glideapps.com/t/your-best-practices-dos-donts-for-newbies-pls-thks/35011/2) If you would prefer hiring an expert to help you, [head over to the Glide experts page](https://www.glideapps.com/experts). ---
**Author:** ![Hippopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Hippopo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hippopo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/6 "2022-02-07T02:05:42Z")
Thank you… okay i need to hire an expert then. Appreciate the quick responses. ---
**Author:** ![Hippopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Hippopo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hippopo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/7 "2022-02-07T02:07:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/8 "2022-02-07T02:07:51Z")
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**Author:** ![Hippopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Hippopo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hippopo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/9 "2022-02-07T02:18:44Z")
Okay reviewing your company profile. Is specialty food supply chain your turf? ---
**Author:** ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/10 "2022-02-07T02:20:40Z")
I did restaurants, eCommerce…and some more similar. ---
**Author:** ![Hippopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Hippopo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hippopo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/11 "2022-02-07T02:25:42Z")
Fantastic. Are there references I can look at? Think of me as the “distribution” center supplying the restaurants with their imported shipments. ---
**Author:** ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/12 "2022-02-07T02:27:09Z")
how many products do you carry? so it is like a wholesale with delivery? ---
**Author:** ![Hippopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Hippopo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hippopo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/13 "2022-02-07T02:30:03Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:32am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/14 "2022-02-07T02:32:42Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Hippopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Hippopo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hippopo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/15 "2022-02-07T02:37:52Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/16 "2022-02-07T02:38:36Z")
Glide might choke on that… 😉 but what we can do… is to have separate Apps with an integrated google sheets database ---
**Author:** ![Hippopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Hippopo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hippopo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/17 "2022-02-07T02:40:07Z")
😢 ---
**Author:** ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/18 "2022-02-07T02:42:21Z")
have a supply chain App, direct sale app, and logistic app… all based on the same google spreadsheet… which can handle over 2mil records ---
**Author:** ![Hippopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Hippopo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hippopo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/19 "2022-02-07T02:47:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202/20 "2022-02-07T02:49:17Z")
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… [Next page](https://community.glideapps.com/t/need-an-app-to-digitize-supply-chain-for-food-wholesale-fulfillment-distribution/38202.md?page=2)