Flows ERP
Chengyi Technology sells and installs equipment, so goods move in and out every day and customers pay in stages. As the order book grew, the spreadsheets stopped keeping up, and the company moved sales, purchasing, stock, and money into Flows ERP.
About Chengyi Technology
Karamay Chengyi Technology Services Co., Ltd was founded in 2007. It develops sanitation equipment and integrates industrial control systems, holds two utility-model patents, and its underground waste storage units are in use in several cities.
Where they use Flows ERP
Stock
The problem. Equipment and parts move in and out every day. Stock counts were never current, so money sat in slow-moving items, while the parts needed for an installation ran out and held up delivery.
With Flows ERP. Every purchase, receipt, and delivery is recorded against its contract, so the quantity on screen is the quantity in the warehouse. Slow items are easy to spot, and low-stock alerts come before a part runs out.
Receivables
The problem. Sales are paid in stages — 30% when supply starts, the rest once everything is delivered. Following that by hand was slow, payments arrived late, and cash was tight.
With Flows ERP. Each sales contract carries its own payment plan, so the system knows what is due and when, and reminds the team before the date. Finance can see every open amount and how late it is.
Payables
The problem. Payment dates to suppliers were easy to forget. A late payment slows the next delivery and strains a relationship that took years to build.
With Flows ERP. Purchase contracts carry payment plans too, with a reminder before each date. Suppliers are paid on time and the company keeps its credit clean.
The numbers behind decisions
The problem. Sales, purchasing, stock, and finance data sat in separate files. Working out the profit on one order, or for the whole year, took days of checking.
With Flows ERP. The data center puts it together: money in and out, stock value and turnover, receivables aging, and margins by product.
What they told us
Q: Why did you pick Flows ERP?
A: Our purchases and our sales both run in stages, so the money side is complicated. We used to track it in spreadsheets and things slipped. Flows builds the payment plan from the contract, which is what we needed most. It also keeps stock and money together, because for us materials and cash are the same question.
Q: What changed day to day?
A: Collections, first. Finance used to spend hours checking which payments had arrived; now the screen shows who has not paid and what is due next. Stock is the other one — we used to have too much of one item and none of another. And the annual profit that took us days now takes a few clicks.
Q: What is the biggest difference?
A: We used to react to problems; now we see them coming. If you still run your money and your stock in Excel, it is worth looking at something like this.
“Flows ERP keeps our business and our finance data in one place. Stock and receivables are easier to manage, and when we make a decision we have real numbers in front of us.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Flows ERP handle multiple warehouses?
Stock is tracked per warehouse, with transfers between locations, stock adjustments, and low-stock alerts, all tied to the contracts that move the goods.
Can sales, warehouse, and finance work in one system at once?
Every team reads and writes the same live records, and button-level permissions decide who can do what. Nobody has to send a file around to share the current numbers.
