Dispatch №01 · Lahore
Foods & Snacks · General Trade
№01
Filed // 2026-02-14
- Outlets covered
- 78,412
- Field reps on app
- 1,204
- Distributors on DMS
- 312
- SKUs live
- 486
Stack deployed
- Field Blink SFA
- Field Blink DMS
- Tally connector
- SAP IDoc connector
- Predictive routing
A Rs 640-crore snacks house cuts stock-out days from 11 to 2 across 78,000 outlets.
How a Punjab-headquartered namkeen and extruded-snacks manufacturer replaced a ten-year-old distributor Excel workflow with Field Blink SFA + DMS across seven territories.
Subject // Punjab-based regional snacks major (composite; details anonymised at client request)
The problem
The company ran secondary sales on 312 distributor Tally instances reconciled by email. ASMs downloaded three separate Excel workbooks each morning — attendance from a biometric vendor, orders from distributors, and dispatch from the plant SAP — and stitched them by hand before 11 AM review calls. Stock-outs in high-velocity SKUs (Aloo Bhujia 22g, Moong Dal 40g) were only visible five days after the fact, by which point the trade had shifted to a competitor. Trade schemes announced from HO took nine to fourteen days to reach the last-mile invoice.
The approach
- 01Rolled out the Field Blink SFA app to 1,204 PSRs and DSRs in a 6-week wave, starting with Punjab and Sindh, then Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Islamabad and Azad Kashmir.
- 02Migrated 312 distributors onto the Field Blink DMS with a two-way Tally connector — primary invoicing stayed in Tally, secondary sales, claims and stock norms moved to Field Blink.
- 03Wired the plant SAP ECC dispatch feed into the Field Blink event ledger through the SAP IDoc connector, giving HO a single view from plant gate to retailer bill.
- 04Turned on predictive routing after eight weeks of clean beat data — PJPs were rebuilt weekly against drop-size and productivity targets rather than legacy geography.
- 05Moved trade scheme publishing to Field Blink's scheme engine so a HO-approved scheme reached every distributor invoice line within one business day.
Measured outcomes · 12 months, like-for-like
| Metric | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Stock-out days per SKU | 11.4 → 2.1 | 82% reduction in 6 months |
| Productive calls / rep / day | 27 → 41 | +51% |
| Range-selling (lines / bill) | 3.9 → 6.2 | +59% |
| Scheme-to-invoice latency | 9–14 days → 1 day | Same-day trade activation |
| Distributor claim cycle | 38 days → 9 days | 76% faster settlement |
| Secondary sales growth (LFL) | +18.4% | Vs. +4.1% category (Nielsen Pakistan Q4 FY26) |
“We used to argue about whose Excel was right. Now the argument is about which outlet to fix first — and that is a much better argument to have.”