Stock for a short working season
Set minimum levels on the lines that actually move — cement by brand, TMT in the sizes you sell most, sand and gitti — because running out mid-season cannot be fixed quickly here. Enter units and conversions carefully so the movement report means something when you use it to plan the pre-season order. Everything else can be added as it sells.
Working across the Kosi blocks
A Saharsa dealer's customers are spread across blocks that flood in season and are awkward to reach out of it, so the trade runs on planned deliveries rather than walk-in demand. Knowing what is actually in the godown before promising a load, and having a challan that proves it arrived, are the two things that keep those arrangements from souring. Both come from the same entry as the bill, so neither is extra work.
The Kosi belt
Saharsa supplies the Kosi region, where the building season is shaped by the river and by agricultural income, and where a dealer's catchment stretches across blocks that are a genuine distance from the shop. Demand concentrates after the harvest and in the months when the ground is workable, which makes stocking a decision taken in advance rather than a rolling reorder.
Planning stock for a short season
When most of the year's selling happens in a few months, the pre-season order is the most important decision a shop makes and it cannot be corrected mid-season. What actually moved over the same weeks last year is the only sensible basis for it, and that report is available for any date range. The same report shows what did not move, which is usually where a shop finds capital sitting in goods nobody asked for.
Offline billing and phone setup
Power and network here are both unreliable, so shops run the Android app and bill offline, syncing when coverage returns. A Bluetooth thermal printer means no computer is needed at all. Setup is about thirty minutes on a call, in Hindi, and you raise a real bill before it ends.