How is iDBQuery used in wholesale and distribution?
Wholesale distributors use iDBQuery to ask plain-language questions across sales, inventory, purchasing and customer data, getting cited answers in seconds without SQL. It builds one live model across your ERP and spreadsheets so sales and ops track margin, fill rate and slow-movers without a data team.
Distributors move thousands of SKUs across many customers and suppliers, with data locked in an ERP plus purchasing and pricing spreadsheets. iDBQuery unifies them into one live model so sales, purchasing and finance ask plain-language questions and get a cited answer.
Examples:
- What is gross margin by product line, customer and rep?
- Show fill rate and backorders by SKU and warehouse.
- Which SKUs are slow-moving or dead stock tying up cash?
- Which customers' order frequency is slipping (churn risk)?
- What is inventory turnover and days of supply by category?
iDBQuery joins the ERP export, inventory database and pricing spreadsheets together with no pipeline, and cites each figure to source, so margin and inventory reporting is trustworthy. It builds dashboards for sales meetings and can surface pricing exceptions or margin leakage down to the line item.
Deployment is flexible: cloud, your own VPC, or the Desktop app with query-in-place to keep customer and pricing data local. The differentiator over generic BI is that a lean team gets instant, SKU- and customer-level answers across every system at once, each number traceable back to the exact transaction, with no analyst or pipeline required.
Updated 2026-06-22