Segments
Reading the customer’s list and finding each item in your inventory works the same in any building material store. What changes from one trade to another is what separates the right product from the similar one — colour and brand in a paint store, amperage in an electrical supplier, section and length in a lumber yard, the certification number in a PPE distributor.
Lumber yards
Three numbers on the same line, and only one is a quantity.
Paint and coatings
The customer writes “blue”, and your catalogue has forty blues.
Electrical and lighting
The description is almost all numbers, and none is a quantity.
Plumbing
The customer says elbow; your catalogue says bend.
Flooring and finishes
The customer asks in square metres, the stock counts boxes.
Building material yards
“10 cement and 3 of sand” arrives with no unit at all.
Hardware stores
Two hundred screw lines that differ by two millimetres.
Home centers
One list crosses six departments and three salespeople.
Steel and rebar
The schedule comes in kilos, and the sale is a 12-metre bar.
Drywall and dry construction
“Profile 70” can be a track or a stud — the deciding word is missing.
PPE and workplace safety
Without the certification number, “leather glove” is six different products.
Roofing
The effective length is shorter than the total, and the sum never closes.
Six things hold equally from the lumber yard to the steel merchant. They are the reason Tablia does not need a different version for each type of store.
The twelve pages above exist because those are the trades with vocabulary distinct enough to deserve a text of their own. They are not the list of who Tablia serves.
Wherever a customer sends a list and a salesperson builds a quote, the mechanism is the same — and that includes, among others:
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In the demo we use a list your store received this week, against your own catalogue. It is the fastest way to find out whether Tablia can handle what you sell.
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