One ledger, and the supply side

20 September 2026. The fifth release of the 1.0 programme gives every quantity on the platform one ledger and brings the supply side in. Stock is now a product of its own: one record of what is where, written by every receipt, issue, transfer, count and write off, and read by the catalogue, the design modules, the machine modules and the orders. Source runs your suppliers, their prices, your requests for quotation, your purchase orders and goods in, and every buy price lands in the same ledger with the cost it carried.

One ledger

• Every balance is the sum of its movements. Nothing is typed over a figure any more: a receipt, an issue, a transfer, a count or a write off is a movement with who, where, when and why, and the balance follows.
• Locations are yours to name: a store, a rack, a bin, a van or a station. A station that holds stock has its own bin, and a scan at that station moves or counts into it.
• Stock has four views. Lines is every item at every location with what is on hand, reserved, free and on order. Locations is where things are. Movements is the ledger, newest first, filterable and exportable. Reorder is every line at or under its reorder point with the quantity to ask for, and from it you can request quotes or raise a purchase order in one step.
• A sales order reserves what it needs the moment it is confirmed and issues it when it is fulfilled. A sale that would take a balance below zero is refused unless you have said that line may go negative, and then it tells you.
• A count sheet records what was found against what the ledger said, and closing it posts the differences as movements with the variance on record.
• The quantities you already had, on catalogue products, design materials, machine shop material and plasma sheet stock, were carried into the ledger as opening balances with their cost. Every screen that showed them shows the same figure from the ledger now.
• Unit cost is a moving average recomputed on every receipt, shown to engineers and above and never on a customer document.

Source

• Suppliers has four views: the supplier network with its approval state and performance, price lists, requests and a shortage list. A customer who also supplies you becomes a supplier in one step.
• A price list arrives as a CSV or is typed in, with breaks, validity and currency. Activating it shows what moved against the list before it, and a move past the alert you set raises a notification. A supplier price can be accepted as a product's cost basis in one action.
• A request for quotation goes to as many suppliers as you choose, each with their own answer link where they see only their own lines and prices and answer in the browser, or you type the answer from the quotation they sent. The comparison lays every answer side by side on quoted price, landed cost and lead time, and awarding it raises one draft purchase order per winning supplier.
• Purchase orders live in Orders under the Purchase view, with a PDF, an email to the supplier's contact, acknowledgement, expected dates and a state that follows the goods rather than a status somebody sets.
• Goods in posts against the order from the order itself or from the scan screen at the dock: what arrived, what was rejected and the lot code it now carries, and the ledger, the order and the on order figure move in one step. Over receipt beyond the tolerance you set is refused before anything is written.
• A supplier invoice is matched to the order and the receipts, and a variance outside your tolerance is flagged for someone to acknowledge.
• Exchange rates are yours to accept: nothing converts a cost at a rate you have not entered, and a landed cost that lacks a rate, freight or duty says what is missing rather than guessing.
• The API carries suppliers, purchase orders and stock, and the AI interface can read a balance or a shortage list when it is asked.

What your customer sees

• Nothing of this. Suppliers, prices, purchase orders and stock levels never appear on the customer surface or on any customer document.