Run DSD operations from one connected workspace
Plan routes, verify warehouse handoffs, guide every store visit, write and adjust orders, and capture proof of delivery—without forcing operations to piece the day together across disconnected tools.
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Route Progress
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Operational Attention
Warehouse Handoff
Routing, order writing, and proof of delivery should not live in separate worlds.
Many DSD teams plan the route in one system, write orders in another, and rely on the ERP for the financial record. The missing layer is a clear operational record of what was prepared, what reached the driver, what happened at the store, and what still needs attention.
One operational thread from route planning to store evidence.
01Golden schedules and route runs
Build repeatable four-week route templates, assign daily stop types, prepare dated route runs, make day-of adjustments, and publish the right work to the right driver.
02Warehouse and cross-dock custody
Compare scheduled orders with the physical load, record who audited it, confirm the driver's receipt, and surface missing product to both warehouse and routing teams.
03Guided visit execution
Give each stop the actions its stop type actually requires: contacts, receiving details, OOS counts, photos, notes, credits, orders, PO collection, and proof of delivery.
04Field order and delivery workflows
Support direct and full-service work, adjust mispicked quantities, reference available vehicle stock, collect customer PO information when required, and prepare the delivery record.
05Searchable visit history
Open the complete record behind a stop: driver, timing, orders, credits, OOS counts, notes, shelf photos, POD, and exceptions—not simply a completed status.
06Operational attention
Bring unsent records, missing orders, failed delivery conditions, route revisions, and unresolved warehouse handoffs into focused queues for the teams responsible.
07Store intelligence and communication
Put receiving details, contacts, visit history, store priorities, banner initiatives, and promotional context in front of the driver before they walk through the door.
08ERP-aware by designIntegration planned
Keep the ERP as the source of truth for customers, pricing, sales orders, invoices, credits, and inventory while TheDailyGrind coordinates the operational work around those records.
09Route intelligenceFuture phase
Build toward optimization using receiving windows, visit cadence, cross-dock timing, stop requirements, and actual field history—after the foundational workflows are proven.
Designed around the real chain of custody
Plan the work
Start with the Golden Schedule, attach open customer work to upcoming visits, adjust the dated route run, and publish it to the assigned driver.
Verify the load
Warehouse personnel audit scheduled orders and route stock. Drivers confirm what they receive, and discrepancies become visible before they create failed stops.
Execute the visit
The driver sees the store context, follows the appropriate stop workflow, handles orders and credits, and captures the required evidence.
Resolve what remains
Management reviews the visit record while routing and warehouse teams receive the exceptions that require action or reconciliation.
Simple in the field. Accountable in the office.
For the route
- A route-first interface built around the next stop and the next required action.
- Store contacts, receiving details, communications, promotions, and history before walking in.
- Stop-specific workflows instead of one oversized checklist for every visit.
- Order, credit, PO, delivery, and evidence tools designed for one-handed field use.
For the office
- Published route work, revisions, visit timing, and evidence in a consistent operational record.
- Warehouse and driver confirmations connected to the same scheduled load.
- Focused exception queues for missing orders, unsent records, and unresolved stops.
- Store- and banner-specific communications delivered in the context where drivers need them.
Built by an operator, not a vendor
TheDailyGrind comes from hands-on experience managing route-sales operations and seeing how much critical context gets lost between routing, warehouse preparation, the driver, and the ERP. The product is being designed around the actual decisions teams make before the route, at the cross dock, inside the store, and after an exception occurs.
The driver and management prototypes are now detailed enough for serious workflow review. We are preparing for design-partner pilots with distributors willing to help validate what matters most before the production backend and ERP integrations are finalized.
Fair questions
The interactive driver and management applications are in the prototype stage and are being prepared for hosted demonstrations. The next major phase is the production data model, backend, tenant isolation, authentication, and integration layer. We are speaking with potential design partners before locking those decisions.
No production ERP integration is being claimed today. Acumatica is the initial design target, and the architecture is intended to support additional ERP adapters over time. A design-partner engagement will include detailed validation of record ownership, status mappings, pricing, inventory, and reconciliation behavior.
The installed driver application is being designed to preserve essential field work when coverage is unreliable. The exact offline boundaries—especially invoice numbering, current pricing, ERP confirmation, and printing—are still being validated. We will not promise an offline workflow until it can be reconciled safely and tested in real operations.
The management console is designed for the web, and the driver application is being built with Expo React Native for iOS and Android. Phone, camera, location, and printer compatibility will be validated during native pilots before a production hardware list is published.
The architecture is being designed for organization-level isolation, auditable actions, least-privilege access, encryption, and controlled retention. The supporting policy framework is SOC 2-minded, but the product is not currently represented as certified or ready to hold production customer data.
Help shape a better DSD operating system
If your team is stitching together routing, mobile order writing, delivery evidence, and ERP records, we would like to learn how your operation works and show you what we have built.