Is your company losing control of the stock stored at your B2B customers' warehouses?
Consignment inventory or Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI) is an excellent commercial strategy, but a logistical and financial nightmare if managed via manual reports. When your clients consume your materials and notify you days later through error-prone spreadsheets, your cash flow freezes. You cannot invoice on time, lack real visibility to plan production, and constantly face phantom stockouts or unexpected overstock that devours your operating margin.
The Trap of Manual ERP Reconciliations
Attempting to connect the ERPs of two different companies to synchronize consumption in real time usually fails due to technical incompatibility or strict cybersecurity restrictions. Most industrial SMEs fall into the trap of creating nightly batch interfaces that fail to validate intermediate stock states, generating duplicate records and bookkeeping discrepancies impossible to audit at the end of the quarter. A B2B system that relies on the customer's goodwill for reporting is doomed to lose money in every audit..
Our Solution: Decoupled Transactional VMI Architecture
At LANZA ESTUDIO, we design a secure and independent data infrastructure that acts as an immutable inventory ledger for both parties, resolving the integration without compromising the internal network.
- Immediate consumption events: We capture stock outflows at the customer's point of use using CDC (Change Data Capture) techniques or ultralight API endpoints.
- Optimistic record locking: We prevent erroneous concurrent writes when the customer's operator and your logistics team modify the same batch simultaneously.
- Event-driven automated billing: The system issues an instant payment trigger in your financial software the exact millisecond the stock status changes to consumed.
- Predictive minimum replenishment models: We calculate shipping routes dynamically by analyzing the historical pace of the customer's real consumption, without waiting for their request.
The Real Impact on the Supply Chain
- Reduction of the collection cycle: The average time between actual product consumption and invoice issuance drops from 20 days to less than 5 minutes.
- Absolute stock accuracy: Total elimination of inventory mismatches between your physical balance and the distributor's accounting report.
- Working capital optimization: Up to a 35% decrease in tied-up inventory at external facilities thanks to predictive replenishment.