How a Mpumalanga tyre distributor stopped running out of stock — and started running a tighter business.

240 SKUs. No system. Stockouts every week.

Lowveld Tyre Distributors services a demanding customer base — independent fitment centres and fleet operators who need the right tyre, in the right size, on the same day. With over 240 active SKUs spanning passenger, commercial, and off-road fitments from multiple brands, their product range was simply too large to manage in spreadsheets.

Stock levels were tracked across multiple Excel files that were frequently out of date. Popular sizes — particularly common passenger fitments and light commercial sizes — regularly ran out mid-month. When that happened, the team would scramble to source from secondary suppliers at higher cost, eroding margin and delaying delivery to customers who often went elsewhere.

Invoicing was an entirely separate process. Sales were captured verbally or on paper during delivery runs across Mpumalanga, then entered into a spreadsheet back at the office — sometimes days later. Outstanding customer balances were hard to track, and the owner had no reliable picture of cash flow until the books were reconciled at month end.

One platform for stock, orders, deliveries, and cash.

The Lowveld Tyre team onboarded their full catalogue of 240+ SKUs into 1FinForce during the first two weeks. Each product was given a reorder threshold based on average monthly sales velocity — so the system automatically flags any size approaching a critical level before it runs out, rather than after.

Purchase orders to suppliers are now created and tracked in-platform. When stock arrives, receiving is confirmed against the original order and inventory levels update immediately. Every team member — from the warehouse to the sales rep on the road — is working off the same live stock picture.

Sales orders and invoices are now generated at the point of sale, directly from a phone or tablet on delivery runs. Customer balances, order history, and outstanding amounts are visible on each customer's detail page. The owner checks the cash flow dashboard each morning before the day starts — something that simply wasn't possible before.

The stockouts were killing us. A customer phones for a 235/55R18 and you don't have it — they go somewhere else and they don't come back. Now I get an alert before we run out. We haven't had a major stockout in five months. That alone paid for the platform ten times over.

Nine months in.

Stock accuracy climbing. Stockouts disappearing.

Illustrative view based on outcomes over 9 months on 1FinForce.

Before and after.

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