Wood fuel trade

Systematic pellet logistics — transparent, scalable, price-dynamic.

Energy suppliers specializing in biomass such as heating pellets face particular challenges: production, warehouse logistics, and delivery must be managed efficiently, while demand is rising, prices are dynamic, and delivery reliability is crucial to economic success. A specialized ERP solution for the energy wood trade connects all processes from order entry to production, warehousing, route planning, and delivery. The central data platform provides maximum transparency across sales processes, regional supply chains, and quantity planning, while ensuring flexibility and scalability for seasonally volatile market conditions. This allows companies to benefit from efficient, predictable workflows, seamless process control, and stable, economical management of their biomass production and logistics.

Optimized logistics processes for regionalized delivery models

The ERP system controls the planning and optimization of delivery routes, loading, and fleet management based on order volumes, delivery areas, vehicle capacities, and weather forecasts. Route and time slot logic can be flexibly mapped, reducing transport costs, minimizing empty runs, and reliably ensuring the timely delivery of heating pellets—even during seasonal peaks. At the same time, companies gain full transparency over available capacities, delivery status, and route planning in real time, which facilitates operational control and ensures efficient, cost-saving logistics.

Automated billing processes for quick and accurate billing

Delivery data, quantity recording, and pricing logic are transferred directly to invoicing, including surcharges for pallets or small quantities, bonus models, and discount agreements. The ERP system creates digital invoices based on rules and transfers them seamlessly to financial accounting or the e-invoicing platform. This digital integration reduces errors, accelerates cash flow, and makes the entire billing process efficient, transparent, and traceable. Companies benefit from reliable, automated processes that increase both operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.

eCommerce integration for automated order entry

The direct connection of the web shop or customer portal to the ERP system enables consistent and seamless order entry. Customer-specific prices, available delivery dates, and container sizes are displayed in real time, eliminating manual entries and allowing orders to be processed more quickly. This integration improves the digital customer experience, increases customer satisfaction, reduces error rates, and supports the efficient processing of online orders in the fuel trade. At the same time, it creates a transparent, predictable process that seamlessly connects sales, logistics, and controlling.

An overview of the most important functions

Sales and price management with bundling logic

Manage prices, scales and promotions flexibly according to container size, delivery region and season. Whether pallet, bulk meter or bagged goods — everything is calculated precisely and taken into account directly in the order.

Route planning & delivery logistics with regional delivery optimization

Optimize your deliveries by zip code, delivery window, and vehicle capacity. ErP-integrated route planning ensures efficient routes, reduced travel times and maximum capacity utilization — even with weather and seasonal fluctuations.

Automated billing & payment processing

Billing is based on delivered quantities and prices — automatically, transparently and in compliance with GoBD. Payments, cash register connections and reminders are seamlessly integrated.

Transportation and route planning system

The transport and route planning system allows you to optimize regional delivery models, intelligently manage your fleet, vehicle capacities, and time slots, and reduce empty runs and transport costs.

Warehouse and inventory management

Warehouse and inventory management provides a transparent overview of available quantities, container sizes, and storage locations, while automated alerts identify bottlenecks at an early stage.

Real-time dashboards and reporting functions

Provide transparent key figures on sales, inventory levels, delivery status, and revenue development at any time to support strategic decisions.

Forecasting and planning module

In addition, the forecasting and planning module provides accurate sales and production forecasts, taking into account seasonal fluctuations and external factors, so that production and procurement can be managed efficiently.

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