Projects · The Mattress Warehouse
Logistics Optimisation · ERP Embedding

Automated
Logistics Portal

The Mattress Warehouse, one of South Africa's leading bed manufacturers and suppliers, operating across multiple branch locations nationwide.

AWG Consult AWG Finance

Reactive procurement driven by inventory blind spots

  • Systemic inventory latency across locations. Fragmented data created a blind spot in procurement, replenishment was reactive rather than predictive, with stock decisions based on outdated counts rather than live positions.
  • Critical stock-takes relied on labour-intensive manual counts. Floor staff conducted physical audits that consumed operational hours and produced results that were stale before they could be acted upon.
  • Real-time visibility across branches was non-existent. No single system could answer "what do we have, where?" at any given moment, each location maintained its own partial view.
  • Monthly replenishment cycles were governed by manual entry into MoneyWorks®, increasing error margins in purchase order generation and creating a persistent gap between physical stock and accounting records.

Replace human-driven workflows with a hardware-integrated intelligence layer. Treat the warehouse as a data-generating environment and transform manual tasks into automated, synchronised operations.

Hardware-integrated intelligence embedded in the financial core

Automated Stock Intelligence

Barcode scanning solution communicating directly with the financial core. Each scan event translates immediately into an accounting-grade stock movement, eliminating manual stock capture and the data-entry lag that accompanied it.

Algorithmic Procurement

Live stock threshold monitoring generating purchase orders automatically when inventory falls below configurable reorder points. Threshold-based logic replaces calendar-driven replenishment with demand-responsive ordering.

Architectural Synchronisation

Engineered into the existing MoneyWorks® financial fabric as a native extension, not a separate silo. The logistics layer operates within the same data model and transaction boundaries as the accounting system.

Multi-Branch Centralisation

Unified interface providing an authoritative global view of stock levels across all locations. Branch managers and procurement teams operate from a single shared dataset rather than location-specific snapshots.

Measured outcomes

Days→Hrs
Inventory Cycle
Inventory cycles reduced from days to hours through automated synchronisation.
Zero
Stockout Risk
Threshold-based purchasing eliminated stockouts and over-correction patterns.
100%
Scanner-to-ERP
Direct scanner-to-accounting integration removing administrative data drift.
Seamless
ERP Bridge
Continuous bridge between physical logistics and the MoneyWorks® financial core.

Tech Stack

Mendix MoneyWorks® by Cognito Barcode Integration

Built for what's next.

From warehouse floor to financial ledger, we engineer systems
where physical operations and accounting speak the same language.