Distro

Distro is an AI platform built for wholesale distributors. It connects sales and back-office work to the product, customer, inventory and pricing information held in an ERP system. The current offering covers quoting, order entry, product questions, plan-and-specification analysis, complex commercial quoting and accounts-payable processing.

Working from business records

RFQs, bid lists and purchase orders can be converted into structured quoting work. Product questions draw on catalog information and manufacturer documentation, while plan-and-specification tools prepare material lists for review. These workflows are useful only when item matching and customer-specific pricing are correct. A distributor should test substitutions, special-order products and unusual account rules before relying on the resulting quote.

Connecting operations

Distro advertises live ERP integrations with systems including Prophet 21, Eclipse, Infor, NetSuite and Acumatica. Its invoice workflow matches vendor lines against purchase orders and receiving records so staff can focus on exceptions. The service also describes customer-facing support and commercial CPQ. These are separate workflow capabilities, not a promise that every feature will be configured automatically for every distributor.

Implementing with review

The published implementation process includes discovery, data onboarding, internal validation, testing by selected users and a phased rollout. Pricing is tailored to the business rather than listed as a standard per-user subscription. Establish approval rules before allowing a workflow to post orders or financial records. Measure matching quality, exception rates and user adoption against the existing process. Distro can reduce repetitive entry and lookup work, but its marketing performance figures should not be treated as guaranteed results. Reliable source data and clear responsibility for final commercial decisions remain essential throughout a deployment.