The One Suite › Depot One
Distribution · Wholesale

Distribution and wholesale, from the depot to the P&L.

Depot One brings warehousing, order-to-cash, route-to-market, duty compliance and a B2B portal onto one Odoo platform. Every case, every empty, every duty accrued flows through one point of control, from the loading dock to the trial balance.

Depot One · Bonded WH · Receiving Depot One Receiving PutawayPickingStockTransfersQuality 2 warehouses Goods receipt · GRN-2291 Cedar Beverages LLC PRODUCTLOTEXPIRYQTY Cedar Lager 330mlL-88412027-02480 FEFO next Cedar IPA 330mlL-88422026-09300 near-expiry Spring Water 1.5LL-88432028-011,200 Tonic 200mlL-88442027-06576 quarantine Putaway to Bond A · zone-routed2,556 cases Handheld SCAN LOTlast: L-8841 ok Receiving · Putaway Picking · Counts wired to live stock Near-expiry at risk 14,280AED · this warehouse 3 lots quarantined 2 lots near expiry FEFO enforced at pick Depot One warehouse: multi-warehouse, FEFO by lot, quarantine holds and one-click recall. The depot.
Sells off the truck. Settles at the gate. The van holds its own stock and price list, completes sales with no signal, and syncs on return. Offline by default on the route Deposits on returnables applied live End-of-day cash and stock reconciled Van 04offline Al Manara GroceryRoute DXB-East · call 6/14 Cedar Lager · case×8 Spring Water 1.5L×12 Tonic 200ml×6 Crates (deposit)+8 Empties returned-5 credit ok · within limit Total incl. VATAED 612 Complete sale End of day cash 4,180 · stock ok variance 0 · settled Depot One van sales: off-truck selling, deposits and end-of-day settlement, offline. The road.
WarehouseVan sales
the depot · and the road
Why one system

Distribution is not a software problem. It is a fragmentation problem.

Warehouse on one system, van sales on paper, deposits in a notebook, duty by hand, the books weeks late. The blind spots between tools are exactly where the margin lives.

01

Captured once

Every receipt, order and delivery enters the system once, at the point it happens.

02

Live, not later

Stock, deposits, duty and margin update at the moment of the movement, not at month end.

03

Depot and road

Hardened for a working warehouse and a moving truck: scanners, dropped signal, cash on the route.

04

Owned by you

Your data, standard Odoo underneath. No lock-in to a proprietary black box.

What it does

The whole operation, from the dock to the ledger.

One platform where the transaction is captured once and flows everywhere: stock, the deposit account, the excise accrual, the margin report, the VAT return and the owner's dashboard.

Warehouse & FEFO

Multi-warehouse, lots, first-expired-first-out enforced at pick, and one-click recall.

Order to cash

Tiered trade pricing, customer credit limits and automatic order holds.

Returnables & deposits

A live deposit ledger per customer for kegs, crates, pallets and bottles.

Route to market

Route planning, van sales and proof of delivery, working offline on the road.

Duty & excise

The alcohol pack: bonded stock, EMCS e-AD, licence checks and age-gating.

B2B ordering portal

Self-service trade ordering on the same catalogue, price and live stock.

The full platform

And a great deal more under the hood.

The six above are the highlights. Here is the rest of what Depot One does, by domain, the same scope written into your product guide.

Warehouse & stock

  • Multi-warehouse, zones, bond, quarantine
  • Putaway & removal strategies
  • Wave, cluster & batch picking
  • Cross-dock & flow-through
  • Lots, FEFO & near-expiry alerts
  • Batch genealogy & one-click recall
  • Damage & short-ship at receipt
  • Cycle counts with variance approval

Order to cash

  • Tiered trade price lists
  • Volume breaks, case deals, free goods
  • Deposit-inclusive pricing
  • Minimum-margin guardrails
  • Credit limits & automatic holds
  • Payment-term enforcement
  • Returnables & deposit ledger
  • Rebates, listing fees & claims

Route to market

  • Routes, territories & journey plans
  • Rep & driver assignment
  • Delivery windows & sequencing
  • Truck loading against a manifest
  • Van sales & pre-sales
  • End-of-day settlement & shrink
  • Proof of delivery, e-signature
  • Telesales desk

Duty, excise & compliance

  • Excise taxonomy by product
  • Excise accrued on release
  • Licence verification & age-gating
  • Duty-suspended vs duty-paid
  • e-AD & ARC under EMCS
  • Bonded or duty-paid per warehouse

Procurement & import

  • Reorder rules on real consumption
  • Supplier catalogs & price lists
  • RFQ & supplier comparison
  • Three-way matching
  • Landed-cost apportioning
  • Supplier scorecards

Back office & reporting

  • Auto-posted journals
  • VAT & e-invoicing, incl. myDATA
  • Multi-currency & bank sync
  • Analytic accounting by route & channel
  • Margin after rebates, OTIF
  • Deposit exposure & route profitability

People & control

  • Shift planning & attendance
  • Time-off & timesheets
  • Role templates & approvals
  • Full audit trail
  • Maintenance & cold-chain
  • Fleet records
Order to cash

The crates in other people's yards, counted.

Most systems can raise an invoice. Almost none can tell you, per customer, how many crates are still out and what they are worth. Depot One runs a deposit ledger per customer, priced on the same line as the goods and credited automatically when the empties come back on the route.

Depot One · Deposits · Al Manara Trading Depot One Order to cash Deposits Trade pricingCredit controlRebatesCustomers Returnables held · Al Manara Trading Live deposit balanceAED 9,340held against this customer Aged over 60 daysAED 2,120chase before write-off Units still out418across kegs, crates, pallets RETURNABLEISSUEDRETURNEDHELDDEPOSIT Keg 50L12096244,800 Crate ×246404521882,820 Pallet (chep)6428361,440 Glass bottle1,2001,030170280 Reconcile on collection Deposit credited automatically when empties come back on the route. auto Depot One deposit ledger: every keg, crate and pallet priced, tracked and reconciled per customer.
Compliance

Bonded, excise-aware, EMCS-ready.

Duty regime is a setting per warehouse, so a bonded tax warehouse runs beside a duty-paid depot. Excise accrues on release for consumption, calculated not estimated, and duty-suspended moves generate an e-AD with its ARC reference. An excise-aware Odoo is something almost no implementer offers.

Depot One · Excise · Bonded WH · EMCS Depot One Compliance Excise e-AD / ARCLicencesDuty ratesAge-gating Duty-suspended movement audit-ready Stock by duty regime · Bond A SUSPENDED duty-paid Excise falls only on release for consumption. e-AD generated EMCS ARC 26AE0000 4471 A29X Excise taxonomy PRODUCTABVVOLDUTY/HL Cedar Lager4.6%330mlAED 78 Cedar IPA6.2%330mlAED 104 Reserve Red13.5%750mlAED 210 Excise accrued on release · calculated, not estimated AED 38,900this period · liability known Release check Licence verifiedbuyer: Al Manara · valid Age-gate onregulated lines · B2C ready Duty on releaseaccrued at consumption Duty regime is a setting per warehouse. Depot One excise pack: bonded stock, EMCS e-AD with ARC, licence checks and duty accrued on release.
Packages

Three packages, one platform.

Each tier is a superset of the last. Moving up never means starting over: new capabilities activate on the system you already run, with a fixed scope, a fixed price and a committed go-live date.

Hub
Go-live in 6 weeks
A single distribution centre. The fastest path from fragmented tools to one clean system.
  • Warehouse, lots and FEFO
  • Trade pricing and credit control
  • Returnables and deposit ledger
  • Purchasing and landed cost
  • VAT-ready accounting
Network
Go-live in 10 to 12 weeks
Multi-warehouse operations with vans and routes.
  • Everything in Hub
  • Inter-warehouse transfers
  • Route to market, van sales, proof of delivery
  • Demand-based replenishment
  • The B2B ordering portal
Group
Go-live in 14 to 20 weeks
National, multi-company distributors of regulated goods.
  • Everything in Network
  • Alcohol pack: excise and EMCS
  • Supplier and customer rebates
  • Multi-company consolidation
  • Full governance and role matrix

Anything outside a package is handled as transparent change requests with written estimates before work begins. Add-ons like cold-chain, a B2C webshop, telesales and fleet snap onto the same core.

Platform

Standard Odoo underneath, distribution IP on top.

We harvest what the Odoo ecosystem already solves well, and spend our engineering where the real distribution IP lives.

01

Odoo 19 Enterprise core

Accounting, inventory, purchasing, quality and HR. Standard, documented, globally supported.

02

The Depot module suite

Our layer: the deposit engine, excise and EMCS, van settlement and the trade-pricing layer.

03

Offline-first by design

Picking and van sales continue through signal loss and sync the moment the line returns.

Let us walk your warehouse.

One session: your stock, your routes, your duty regime and your numbers, with the system running against them.

Written quotation in days, not a discovery project. Dubai + Beirut.

Design concept · Interface screens shown are illustrative mockups, not the live product.