The 1flux ERP blog: practical guides for B2B businesses
How to quote, buy, stock and close the books, written for the people who do it every day.
In short
The 1flux blog is for owners, finance managers, sales heads, buyers and storekeepers at growing B2B companies. We write about the documents you use (quotations, purchase orders and LPOs, GRNs, delivery notes and tax invoices), the rules you work under, such as VAT and e-invoicing, and the habits that keep sales, the warehouse and the books in step. Some posts are about 1flux; most are useful whichever system you run.
Start here: the questions we hear most
New to the blog? These cornerstone posts answer what owners, finance teams and buyers ask us most often.
Running the business
9 signs your trading business has outgrown Excel
Retyped orders, stock promised twice, stores and accounts that disagree: nine signs spreadsheets have stopped working.
Finance and accounting
Running companies in two countries in one system
Two currencies, two VAT regimes and one group view: how multi-entity accounting works for a UAE and Saudi group.
Purchasing and inventory
LPO, PO or LPR? Purchasing documents explained
What an LPO is, how it differs from a PO, LPR, RFQ and requisition, and the order the documents flow in.
Latest posts on the 1flux ERP blog
Practical guides on quoting, buying, stock and the books. Most are useful whichever system you run.
Running the business
9 signs your trading business has outgrown Excel
Retyped orders, stock promised twice, stores and accounts that disagree: nine signs spreadsheets have stopped working.
Finance and accounting
Running companies in two countries in one system
Two currencies, two VAT regimes and one group view: how multi-entity accounting works for a UAE and Saudi group.
Purchasing and inventory
LPO, PO or LPR? Purchasing documents explained
What an LPO is, how it differs from a PO, LPR, RFQ and requisition, and the order the documents flow in.
Finance and accounting
Why your stock report and your accounts never agree
The five reasons stock and the ledger drift apart, a step-by-step reconciliation and a worked template.
Sales and CRM
How to write a B2B quotation customers say yes to
The structure business buyers expect, from the cover letter to the signatories, plus approvals, revisions and an example layout.
Sales and CRM
The daily sales report: a field sales manager's guide
What a B2B daily sales report should capture, a format to copy and how managers turn reports into follow-ups.
Finance and accounting
Goods received not invoiced (GRNI), explained
The journals from goods receipt to supplier invoice, why the balance creeps up and a month-end routine that keeps it clean.
Purchasing and inventory
Weighted average or FIFO? Choosing a costing method
One month of receipts and sales costed three ways, and what IAS 2 allows.
Browse by topic
Each topic is written for the people who do the work, from salespeople and buyers to storekeepers and accountants.
Sales and CRM
Win more of the work you quote for, and know what your field team did today: quotation formats and approvals, pipeline reviews, daily sales reports, credit terms and cash collection.
2 posts
Start with: How to write a B2B quotation customers say yes to
Purchasing and inventory
Buy at the right price, receive what you actually ordered and always know what's free to sell: requisitions, quote comparison, LPOs, goods received notes, stock counts and costing methods.
2 posts
Start with: LPO, PO or LPR? Purchasing documents explained
Finance and accounting
Close the month without a week of reconciling: goods received not invoiced, stock-to-ledger reconciliation, receivables, exchange differences, opening balances and consolidation.
3 posts
Start with: Why your stock report and your accounts never agree
Running the business
The rules and realities of running a growing trading business: when to change systems, VAT and e-invoicing explainers, registrations, multi-currency trading and groups of companies. Regulatory posts are explainers, not tax advice.
1 post
Start with: 9 signs your trading business has outgrown Excel
Product updates
What's new in 1flux and who it helps, listed month by month with exactly what changed.
Guides and references
For longer reads, use our guides and the glossary: each guide explains the process first and 1flux second.
Guide
How to choose an ERP: a buyer's guide
Requirements, vendor questions, demo scripts, five-year cost and a scoring table.
Guide
ERP implementation checklist
Ten phases from scoping to your first month-end, each with exit criteria.
Guide
The quote to cash process
Eight stages from enquiry to cash in the bank, with controls and KPIs.
ERP buyer's guide
How to choose an ERP: requirements, vendor questions, demo scripts, five-year cost and a scoring table.
ERP implementation checklist
Ten phases from scoping to your first month-end, each with a checklist and a clear test of when it's done.
Quote-to-cash guide
The eight stages from enquiry to cash in the bank, with the documents, controls, KPIs and a checklist.
Procure-to-pay guide
Eleven steps from requisition to supplier payment, with the documents, controls, accounting, KPIs and a checklist.
ERP glossary
Plain-English definitions of 83 trade, inventory and accounting terms, each with an example.
What's new in 1flux
What 1flux includes today and every change since, newest first, in plain language.
See the workflows behind the posts
Book a demo and we'll walk through quotations, purchasing, stock and the books in 1flux, using your documents.
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