--- title: "ERP for industrial distributors that carry thousands of SKUs" description: "1flux is the ERP for industrial distributors and MRO suppliers: a coded catalogue for thousands of SKUs, barcodes, packs, price channels and stock by warehouse." url: https://1flux.ai/solutions/industrial-and-mro last_updated: 2026-10-11 --- Industrial and MRO supply # ERP for industrial distributors that carry thousands of SKUs For distributors of bearings, fasteners, valves, tools and maintenance supplies. One coded catalogue, stock in every warehouse, and long customer POs drafted into quotations. ## In short 1flux is an ERP for industrial distributors and MRO suppliers that sell thousands of SKUs to plants, contractors and maintenance teams. Items sit in one coded catalogue with categories, barcodes, packs and dated price channels. Stock is tracked in every warehouse, and Import PO with AI turns a customer's long PO or RFQ into draft quotation lines. Every delivery, invoice and payment posts its own journal. One coded catalogue: item codes, English and Arabic names, units and list prices in a single register. The one flow ## What should an ERP for industrial distributors do with a 140-line RFQ? It should turn the file into a priced quotation without retyping, then carry the order through to the payment. 1flux does that in one flow, where each document starts from the one before it. Say a maintenance buyer at a plant sends an RFQ for 140 lines: bearings, gaskets, fasteners and a couple of pumps. **Import PO with AI** drafts the quotation from the file, approval rules check the total, and the customer’s PO turns the accepted quotation into a sales order that reserves the stock. The warehouse dispatches what’s on the shelf, finance invoices what was delivered, and the delivery note, invoice and payment each post their own journal. 1. Customer RFQ (PDF, 140 lines) . Nothing posts. 2. Quotation (QT-2026-00264): Approved . Nothing posts. 3. Customer PO (PO 88310) . Nothing posts. 4. Sales order (SO-2026-0219) . Nothing posts. 5. Delivery note (Part delivery) . Posts Dr COGS , Cr Inventory. 6. Sales invoice (Delivered lines) . Posts Dr AR , Cr Revenue, VAT. 7. Customer payment . Posts Dr Bank , Cr AR. Item master ## One coded catalogue for every SKU you sell 1flux keeps every SKU in one [item master](https://1flux.ai/glossary/item-master), filed under a coded category tree up to 4 levels deep, because an industrial catalogue lives or dies by its codes. Items are numbered from the category sequence, a global sequence or by hand. Validation rules on catalogue fields (required, allowed values, patterns, minimum and maximum) apply to forms, imports and bulk edits alike, so a new SKU can’t arrive half-described. - Import up to 10,000 items per file from CSV, Excel or a paste, validated on the server before anything saves - Create missing categories during the import, and match existing items on code or barcode - Bulk edit up to 5,000 items at a time, with a review of every change - Names and descriptions in up to 7 languages, including Arabic, plus images and typed documents such as spec sheets [The 1flux item master](https://1flux.ai/products/inventory/item-master) Each full code is the parent's code plus its own. Moving a category previews the new code first. Units and barcodes ## Barcodes, labels and packs that match how stock moves In 1flux each item has one inventory unit with packs and barcodes on top, so fasteners can arrive by the carton, leave by the box and be counted by the piece. A box of 12 can be marked for purchase and sale, and a carton of 48 for purchase only. Purchase lines start with the item’s default purchase pack and quotation lines with its default sale pack. - Capture an existing EAN-13, UPC or Code 128 barcode, or generate an internal EAN-13 - Print A4 label sheets per item, at 38 × 25 mm or 50 × 25 mm, from 1 to 100 labels - 30 [units of measure](https://1flux.ai/glossary/unit-of-measure) and 10 conversions come ready, so quantities always resolve to the inventory unit A box of 12 for buying and selling, a carton of 48 for buying only, each pack with its own barcode. Price channels ## List and wholesale prices, each with a dated history Every item in 1flux carries a List Price and any price channels you add, such as Wholesale. Each channel keeps dated prices: a new price closes the one before it, so the history stays on record. Tax works the same way, with inward and outward codes per item and rates that change on a date. On a quotation, prices come from the list price in force on the quote date, and tax from the rate in force that day. The server recalculates every line in exact fixed-point arithmetic, so a typing slip can’t change a total. Each channel keeps dated prices. A new price closes the one before it, so the history stays on record. Import PO with AI ## Long POs and RFQs become draft quotations **Import PO with AI** turns the long, code-heavy POs and RFQs that maintenance buyers send into draft quotation lines. It reads the file (PDF, PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 10 MB) and fills the quotation’s reference, date, currency and up to 200 lines. It matches exact item codes to your catalogue and shows a confidence score. It never invents values: anything it can’t read is left for your team. The source file stays attached to the quotation, and nothing goes to the customer until someone sends it. The AI works on your real catalogue, and its draft goes through the same pricing and approval rules as anyone else’s. [How AI works in 1flux](https://1flux.ai/platform/ai) A customer's PO becomes draft quotation lines matched to the catalogue. Anything not in the document stays blank. View as text 1. A salesperson opens a new draft quotation and chooses Import PO with AI. 2. They drop in the customer's purchase order, PO-4471.pdf. 3. 1flux imports 8 lines with a 94% confidence score: it fills the customer reference (PO-4471), the quote date and the currency (USD), and matches each item code to the catalogue. 4. The salesperson chooses the customer and checks the totals. The source file stays attached to the quotation. Multi-warehouse stock ## Stock in every warehouse, and buying that keeps it there 1flux shows on hand, reserved, available and awaiting receipt for every item in every warehouse. Activating a sales order reserves its stock, so sales only promises what’s free, and open purchase orders show as awaiting receipt. [Available to promise](https://1flux.ai/glossary/available-to-promise) sits on the Inventory overview. - Replenish with a requisition marked **Replenish stock**, then compare supplier quotes side by side and award each line with a reason - Receive one delivery against several purchase orders on a single GRN check-in - Count a whole warehouse, optionally blind, and post the variance at cost in one step - Keep every plant and site address on the customer’s record, and each sales order fills in the customer’s defaults See how [purchasing in 1flux](https://1flux.ai/products/purchasing) runs from requisition to purchase invoice. [Multi-warehouse stock, picking and dispatch](https://1flux.ai/products/inventory/multi-warehouse) One item across every warehouse: on hand, reserved, incoming and what's still available. FAQ ## Questions, answered Still deciding? [Talk to sales](https://1flux.ai/contact) ### Can 1flux handle a catalogue of thousands of industrial SKUs? Yes. 1flux imports up to 10,000 items per file from CSV, Excel or a paste, checks every row on the server before anything is saved, creates missing categories and matches existing items on code or barcode. Items sit in a coded category tree up to 4 levels deep, with codes from the category sequence, a global sequence or entered by hand. Bulk edit then changes up to 5,000 items at a time, with a review step. ### Can a customer's long purchase order become a quotation without retyping? Yes. Import PO with AI reads the customer's PO or RFQ as a PDF, PNG, JPEG or WebP file of up to 10 MB. It fills the reference, date, currency and up to 200 quotation lines, matches exact item codes to your catalogue and shows a confidence score. It never invents values, and it attaches the source file to the quotation. Your team reviews the draft, and nothing reaches the customer until someone sends it. ### Can we sell the same item by the piece and by the box? Yes. Each item in 1flux has one inventory unit and as many packs as you need, such as a box of 12 or a carton of 48. Each pack can be marked for purchase, for sale or for both. Quotation lines start with the item's default sale pack and purchase lines with its default purchase pack, so the same SKU can arrive by the carton and leave by the box. ### Does 1flux support barcodes on items and packs? Yes. You can capture an existing EAN-13, UPC or Code 128 barcode for an item, or have 1flux generate an internal EAN-13. Packs can carry their own barcodes too. For shelves and stores, 1flux prints A4 sheets of barcode labels per item, at 38 × 25 mm or 50 × 25 mm, from 1 to 100 labels at a time, each showing the item name, code and barcode. ### Can 1flux keep list and wholesale prices with a history? Yes. Every item keeps a List Price plus any price channels you add, such as Wholesale, and each channel has its own dated price history. A new price closes the one before it, so you can see what an item sold for on any date. Quotations take the list price in force on the quote date, and the server recalculates every line, so a typing slip can't change a total. ### Can 1flux show what's free to sell in each warehouse? Yes. 1flux shows on hand, reserved, available and awaiting receipt for every item in every warehouse. Activating a sales order reserves its stock, so the next salesperson only sees what's genuinely free, and open purchase orders show as awaiting receipt. The Inventory overview puts available to promise, reserved and awaiting receipt on its tiles, and each warehouse can be counted with a whole-warehouse stock count. ### Can stores receive one supplier delivery against several purchase orders? Yes. A goods received note (GRN) check-in in 1flux starts with the supplier and can cover several purchase orders on one delivery, with the supplier's delivery note number and a photo or scan. The goods receipt report then records a reason for every short, over or rejected quantity and posts stock and the journal in one step. The purchase invoice is built from what was received. Related ## Keep exploring ### [Item master](https://1flux.ai/products/inventory/item-master) Goods, services and digital products in one catalogue, in up to 7 languages. ### [Multi-warehouse](https://1flux.ai/products/inventory/multi-warehouse) Stock per warehouse and company, reservations, a price-free pick board and delivery notes. ### [Quotations](https://1flux.ai/products/quotations) Quotes from your catalogue or a customer's PO, approved, locked and sent. ### [AI in 1flux](https://1flux.ai/platform/ai) AI that works on the same records, permissions and audit trail as your team, and drafts quotations from customer POs today. ### [Purchasing](https://1flux.ai/products/purchasing) Requisitions, quotes, LPOs, two-step receiving and receipt-based invoices in one flow. ### [Trading and distribution](https://1flux.ai/solutions/trading-and-distribution) Quote, buy, stock, deliver and invoice in one flow, with books that post themselves. Last updated 11 October 2026