M-Pakk Manager
Enterprise ERP platform for distribution and wholesale: multi-warehouse inventory, customer orders, vendor management, Shoprenter sync, and Billingo invoice automation.
The challenge
M-Pakk Manager is a full-stack, enterprise-grade ERP and operations management platform built to centralize supply chain, inventory, and order fulfillment operations. The system manages everything from customer orders and purchase orders to multi-warehouse inventory, vendor management, financial tracking, and e-commerce integration, all in a single, cohesive platform.
Small-to-medium distribution and wholesale businesses often outgrow their initial tooling before they can afford large off-the-shelf ERP systems. The specific challenges this platform was built to solve:
- No single source of truth for stock levels across multiple warehouse locations
- Customer orders, vendor purchase orders, and payment records tracked in disconnected spreadsheets
- No automated syncing between internal inventory and the public-facing webshop
- Invoice generation was manual and error-prone
- No visibility into daily, monthly, or yearly sales performance
- Onboarding new staff was difficult with no role-based access control
The solution
A purpose-built, full-stack web application that acts as the single source of truth for all order, inventory, and financial operations.
Order & Customer Management
- Full customer lifecycle: categories, contact info, currencies, payment methods
- Customer orders with line items, status tracking, digital signature capture, and payment recording
- Comment threads on customers and orders for team collaboration
Purchase Orders & Vendor Management
- Manage vendor relationships and purchase orders end-to-end
- Receipt tracking: log goods received line-by-line against a purchase order
- Separate payment tracking for both sales and procurement
Multi-Warehouse Inventory
- Real-time stock levels per product per warehouse location
- Inter-warehouse transfer requests with full audit trail
- Price list management with dynamic pricing support
Product Catalog & Webshop Sync
- Centralized product catalog with categories, images, and pricing
- Automated quantity syncing to Shoprenter via scheduled cron job (every 10 minutes during business hours)
- Webhook listener for inbound events from the webshop
Dashboard & Reporting
- Role-differentiated dashboards: daily, monthly, and yearly sales summaries
- Coverage reports and top-product rankings
- Separate views for internal operations and webshop performance
Scheduled Jobs & Automation
- Webshop product quantity sync runs on a cron schedule (every 10 min, 04:00–20:00)
- Automated nightly MongoDB backup at 02:00
- All cron jobs disabled in development; production-only via PM2 cluster instance check
Integrations
- Billingo: automated invoice generation via the Billingo API
- Shoprenter: bidirectional product and quantity sync with the webshop
- AWS SDK: cloud storage integration for file assets
- Nodemailer: email notification support
Scope and scale
M-Pakk Manager replaced a fragmented, manual workflow with a unified platform covering the full lifecycle from vendor purchase to customer delivery.
Stock levels became visible in real-time across all warehouses, webshop quantities stayed in sync automatically, and invoices that previously required manual entry now generate via API on order completion. The role-based dashboard gives every team member, from warehouse staff processing receipts to managers reviewing monthly coverage, exactly the data relevant to their role.