Supply Chain & Inventory
What you hold, what you owe for it, and what it actually cost to get there.
Stock is where an ERP is judged, because stock is the only part of the system a manager can walk over to and check. If the screen says 400 and the shelf holds 380, nothing else the software says will be believed. Nama treats inventory as a ledger rather than a counter: every movement is a document with a reason, a cost and an owner, and the quantity on hand is the consequence of those documents rather than a number somebody edited. That is also why the stock valuation and the cost of goods sold in the income statement are one figure — they are derived from the same movements.
What Supply Chain & Inventory covers
3 modules, licensed together or separately.
- Inventory Management — Quantity, Value and Where It Actually Is Multi-warehouse stock, batches, serials, stocktakes and the cost behind every movement.
- Purchasing — Request, Compare, Order, Receive, Match Requests, quotations, purchase orders and receipts, priced with landed cost.
- Freight Management Shipments, containers and freight costs tracked from origin to delivery.
How it works together
The three modules here trace one physical path, and every step of it is a document rather than an adjustment.
- Buy. A purchase request becomes quotations, an order, and the terms agreed with the supplier — payment, delivery and penalty terms travel with the document rather than living in an email.
- Receive. Goods arrive against the order. Quantity, batch, serial and quality inspection are recorded at receipt, and the difference between ordered and received is visible immediately rather than at invoice matching.
- Land. Freight, customs, clearance and bank charges are allocated onto the goods they belong to, so the item’s cost reflects what it took to get it onto your shelf — not what the supplier’s invoice said.
- Store and move. Warehouses and locators hold the goods; transfers between them are documents with their own approval and their own audit trail.
- Reserve and issue. Quantity is committed against real demand, then issued to a customer, a production order or a project.
- Count. Stocktaking reconciles the physical count against the ledger, and the variance posts with a reason.
Freight sits across this path rather than at one point of it: shipments and containers carry their own costs from origin to delivery, which is what lets an importer see landed cost per item instead of a freight expense per month.
Built for how the region actually works
Importing is the normal case here, not an edge case — so letters of credit, customs charges and multi-currency supplier balances are part of the standard purchase path rather than an add-on. Warehouses can belong to different companies and branches in the same database, which is what a distributor with stock in three countries actually needs. Barcode capture, weight scales and handheld devices are supported at the point the goods move, because the person receiving a container is not sitting at a desk. And the whole path is Arabic-first: an item name, a warehouse name and a printed goods-issue note all render properly right-to-left without a separate template.
Every screen, field and setting is documented in full.
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Can we count stock without stopping the business?
Yes. Stocktaking runs at any point in the year and by any slice you choose — one warehouse, one locator, one item group — and the count is a document that reconciles against the balance at that moment, rather than a freeze on the whole company.
How is the cost of an item worked out?
Continuously, from the movements themselves, including the costs you land onto a receipt: freight, customs, clearance and the charges on an import letter of credit. Cost is a property of the goods, not an average somebody maintains on a spreadsheet.
Can we track batches and serial numbers?
Both, per item, and they follow the goods through every subsequent movement — so a recall or a warranty claim traces back to the receipt that brought that batch in, and forward to every customer who received it.
Can stock be reserved before it is shipped?
Yes. Reservations hold quantity against a specific demand so it stops being available to promise elsewhere, which is the difference between a delivery date you gave and a delivery date you can meet.
Does purchasing know what we are about to run out of?
Purchase forecast reads demand, current stock and what is already on order, so requests are raised against the shortfall rather than against a reorder point that was set three years ago.
Companies already running Nama ERP
Our biggest problem before was that none of the data could be linked together — accounts, sales invoicing, the warehouse, inventory and HR could not be tied together at the press of a single button. Retrieving data in Namasoft is also dramatically faster; the sheer volume of data does not affect how easily you can extract it or work with the system.
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