Aura Business is built for volume distribution: every lot received with its expiry, repeat orders placed by the customer instead of dictated on the phone, picking scanned rather than remembered, and a receivables position you can read at nine in the morning.
A consumables business turns its stock many times a year on a thin margin per line. Nothing dramatic decides the result. It is decided by whether expiry is managed before a lot becomes dead stock, whether the right item was picked and despatched, whether the order was captured without being typed twice, and whether the money came back inside the credit period. Software for medical consumables distributors has to be strong on exactly those four things and not much else.
Aura Business receives goods against a purchase order with batch numbers and expiry dates, holds stock by lot across warehouses, lets customers repeat their own orders on a portal, raises GST invoices with delivery challans and e-way bills at volume, and shows receivables ageing account by account with WhatsApp reminders behind it.
High volume hides small errors, and small errors at high volume are the difference between a good year and a flat one.
A lot passes its date on the shelf while newer stock is sold in front of it, and the loss is discovered at stocktake.
Orders are promised on a figure in a sheet that nobody has reconciled to the shelf for weeks.
The customer sends a list, someone types it into a sheet, and someone else types it into an invoice.
Similar items in different sizes are picked by eye, and the return costs more than the line earned.
A hospital pays a fortnight late every month and nothing in the process registers it.
Volume is visible, margin by product line is not, so low-yield lines are pushed as hard as good ones.
A purchase order goes to the supplier against their price list, with the approval step you choose.
Goods receipt records batch numbers and expiry dates, and stock lands in the right warehouse location.
Customers repeat their own orders on the B2B portal, or reps raise them on the mobile app during visits.
Items are scanned against the order, the oldest suitable lot is picked, and the challan and invoice are raised together.
E-way bills and e-invoice IRN and QR are generated where required, and the customer follows the order on a tracking page.
Payments are recorded against invoices, reminders go out on WhatsApp, and ageing shows who is drifting.
Near-expiry alerts, stock ledger and margin by product line drive the next purchase decision.
Workflow: The alert lists lots approaching their date, and the sales team is given those lines to place with high-turnover customers first.
Result: Stock converted to cash instead of written off.
Workflow: A hospital store repeats last month's list on the portal, and the office picks and despatches without re-keying anything.
Result: Fewer errors and a shorter order-to-despatch time.
Workflow: Picking is scanned against the order line, so a similar item in the wrong size is rejected before it is packed.
Result: Returns fall, and so does the freight spent on them.
Workflow: Ageing shows the account drifting past its terms, and a reminder with the invoice reference goes out automatically.
Result: The credit conversation happens early and politely.
Gloves, drapes, sutures and theatre disposables.
Standing supply against a hospital store's monthly indent.
Many small accounts with regular small orders.
Buying from a national principal and supplying retailers onward.
Plastics and disposables with lot numbers that matter.
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Stock is held by lot with its expiry date, alerts surface lots approaching that date, and despatch picks the oldest suitable lot. What the system gives you is visibility and a default; the picking discipline is still yours.
Yes. A hospital or clinic uses the customer self-service portal to repeat a previous order at its agreed prices, and larger buyers or sub-distributors use the B2B order portal. Both feed straight into despatch without re-keying.
Invoicing is designed for volume, with gapless numbering, challans and e-way bills raised from the same order and e-invoice IRN and QR where you are required to generate them. See e-invoice software.
Yes. Profit and loss by product line and territory separates volume from contribution, so a high-turnover line with almost no margin is visible next to a slower line that pays better.
The return is recorded against the goods receipt and lot, a credit note or debit adjustment is raised, and stock leaves the warehouse with the movement on the ledger, so the supplier claim can be evidenced.
Usually not. A pure consumables business rarely runs engineers or contracts, so the service suite can stay switched off. Plans are priced by module tier with unlimited users, so you take the modules you use.
Lot control in detail.
Locations, picking and transfers.
Where the margin is protected.
Movement paperwork at volume.
Sets, loans and traceability.
When volume breaks the sheet.
Many small practices, repeat orders.
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