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Daily brief
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01 / 09
Date
01.09.2026
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Larstel · Distribution ERP
Product · 01 · The Daily Brief

By seven you already know what’s going to go wrong.

Every morning at 7:00, The Daily Brief — the morning report — gathers what deserves your attention: shortages, expiry dates, customers going quiet and outstanding payments. Without opening ten screens. It is included in every project, not a separate module.

Larstel · The Daily Brief 07:42 DE
The Daily BriefOrdersWarehouseRoutes and deliveryInvoicingCustomersIntegrations
Distribuciones Ejemplo, S.L.
Admin · 3 users
The Daily Brief · Tuesday 1 September
You’re 3 products short for today’s routes.
Sample data
Up to date
Shortages today
3
Expiring this week
7 batches
No order in 30 days
12
Payments overdue +15 d
2
Bar La Plaza hasn’t ordered in 34 days. Before that, every 9 days.
View customer
Today’s orders
47 in total
Bar La Plaza18 lines4,812Picked
Restaurante Mirador31 lines4,811En route
Cafetería Sol9 lines4,810Delivered
Hotel Miramar22 lines4,809Picked
Alimentación Vega12 lines4,808Incoming
Routes running
48 stops
Route 1Centre11 / 16
Route 2North district3 / 18
Batches to ship
Ship out
Plain yoghurt 4×12564 units2 days
Cured cheese wedge23 units5 days
Orange juice 1 L118 units6 days
07:00 · on your phone
Today’s Daily Brief
Alerts
6
Reading
4 min
Open the brief
03:12Stock closed and matched against today’s orders04:05Expiry dates checked — 7 batches flagged06:12Payments overdue +15 days updated06:41Shortages for today’s routes — 3 products06:58Brief composed · sent to 4 users03:12Stock closed and matched against today’s orders04:05Expiry dates checked — 7 batches flagged06:12Payments overdue +15 days updated06:41Shortages for today’s routes — 3 products06:58Brief composed · sent to 4 users
01Tuesday’s brief

This is Tuesday’s brief. No filters, no charts, no decoration.

Six alerts, each with its figure and its reason. What you see below is the whole document, exactly as it comes out at 06:58. The four notes in the margin explain where each line comes from.

Up to date
Larstel Daily brief Sample data
Tuesday 1 September 2026 Composed 06:58 · 6 alerts

01 · Shortages for today’s routes

Plain yoghurt 4×125 — route 02 and route 0364 units short
Orange juice 1 L — route 0138 units short
Water 1.5 L 6-pack — route 0212 packs short

02 · Batches expiring this week

L-2418 · Plain yoghurt 4×125 · store 2expires in 9 days
L-2389 · Cured cheese wedge · store 1expires in 5 days

03 · Customers off their pattern

Bar La Plaza · route 02 · since 202134 days / avg. 9
Cafetería Sol · route 01−18% this month

04 · Payments more than 15 days overdue

Hotel Miramar · invoice F-2026-0301€1,204.88
Alimentación Vega · invoice F-2026-0288€232.10
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1This is worked out at 3:12, with stock already closed.
2The figure isn’t the total: it’s what you’re missing to serve today’s routes.
3No opinion here: 34 days without an order against an average of 9.
4Every alert comes with its button: ship out, call, replenish, collect.
Sample brief from a typical distributor. Yours comes from your data, with your products and your customers.
The Daily Brief flags it. The reason is in Customers. See Your customers →
02Tuesday morning

A morning with the brief in front of you.

It doesn’t change what you do. It changes the order you find things out in.

07:00

The brief arrives

In the app and in your inbox, at the same time. Six alerts, each with its figure and its button.

Shortages today3
Batches flagged7
Payments overdue2
08:05

You load with the shortages settled

The three missing products already have a substitution accepted or a notice sent to the customer.

Route 01 · loaded16 stops
Route 02 · loading18 stops
Substitutions2 accepted
09:00

The phone doesn’t ring

Nobody calls the warehouse to ask what’s in stock: the sales rep has it in their brief before walking into the bar.

13:30

You close with no loose delivery notes

The morning’s delivery notes are already invoiced or queued for the day’s close.

Morning delivery notes31 signed
Left to invoice0
Up to date
03Scope and limit

What it brings. And what it deliberately leaves out.

What it brings

Sample data
Shortages for today’s routesby SKU
Batches near expiry, with a way to ship them7 batches
Customers who broke their ordering pattern12 this week
Payments more than 15 days overdue2 invoices
6
Alerts a day on average
4 min
To read

Every line brings its figure and its action alongside: ship out, call, replenish, collect. You read it top to bottom and you’re done.

Illustrative figure from a typical distributor. The figures for your business come out of the diagnostic.

What it deliberately leaves out

Sample data
✕Margin trend month by monthno
✕Configurable dashboardsno
✕Management reports with chartsno
✕Comparisons against last yearno
There is not one chart in the brief.

The Daily Brief is not a dashboard. It does not show you the margin trend: it shows you the six things you have to decide today before nine.

Illustrative figure from a typical distributor. The figures for your business come out of the diagnostic.
04What you ask us

Four things people ask us before saying yes.

The same four, in the same order, at almost every table. We answer them here so you don’t have to ask.

If you have a fifth
Ask it in the diagnostic →
01What if I don’t read it until eleven? +

The brief does not expire: it stays there and the alerts update themselves through the day. What changes is the cost. At seven you decide the load; by eleven you have already left with the shortages inside the van.

02Do my sales reps get it too? +

Yes, and each one gets their own. The sales rep sees their off-pattern customers and their payments; the warehouse manager, shortages and expiry dates; you, all four blocks. It is set per user during setup.

03Can I drop alerts I don’t care about? +

Alert by alert. If you do not work with chilled goods, you drop expiry dates. If you get paid at 60 days, you raise the overdue threshold. We set it up with you and you change it whenever you want, without calling us.

04Where do the thresholds come from? +

From your own data: each customer’s average order, how fast each product really turns and your payment terms. No factory assumptions. And if you want to change them, you change them.

We build your first brief with your data from last week.

A thirty-minute diagnostic, your stock and order files, and we show you the brief you would have got last Tuesday.