A supermarket chain is a buying and logistics business as much as a shop. VortexERP Enterprise runs the head office behind the tills — central procurement, a distribution centre with scanning, branch-by-branch replenishment, and one finance ledger that consolidates the whole group — while VortexPOS keeps each till selling on the floor.

Negotiate once, buy for the whole group. Purchase orders, rebates and supplier terms managed centrally instead of branch by branch.
Receive, put away and pick for branches with barcode scanning and FEFO, so the DC feeds the shops without a stock mystery.
Demand forecasting per branch with safety stock and lead-time learning — turned into transfers and purchase orders before shelves go empty.
Stock variance and shrinkage reporting by branch, so loss and theft surface as numbers instead of hiding in the totals.
M-Pesa, cards, vouchers and cash from every till reconciled back to sales — the money at the branch matches the money in the books.
Tens of thousands of product lines, each with the right price and tax type, kept consistent across every branch.
Branches are many; the accounts should be one. The system that moves the stock posts the books.
Every branch as a cost centre in one general ledger — group and per-branch profitability without waiting for year-end.
TIMS/eTIMS invoicing on every sale, iTax-ready exports and Kenyan statutory handling built into the core.
Pair the back office with VortexPOS on the floor — the till that keeps selling through an internet outage and syncs when it returns.
Stock-out risk, margin slippage and slow movers surfaced each morning while there is still time to act.
Most chains run both: VortexERP Enterprise for central buying, the DC, replenishment and consolidated finance, and VortexPOS on the shop floor for fast, offline-proof, eTIMS-compliant selling. They share one stock and sales picture.
Yes. The system is built for large catalogues and multi-branch stock, with each branch's inventory and tax kept correct and consolidated centrally.
Yes. Every branch is a cost centre, so the ledger reports revenue, margin and cost by branch and for the group as a whole.
Book a walkthrough — central buying, the distribution centre, branch replenishment and one consolidated ledger, with VortexPOS on the floor.
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