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Coverage today in FMCG Business about our Woolworths and AI automation updates (link in comments) With a click of a button you can automate all your wholesale orders from Woolworths and Foodstuffs, along with every other supermarket and hospitality order. Upstock AI automatically reads emails, PDF files, even handwritten notes, instantly converting them to digital orders that integrate with your existing finance systems. This enables the automation of orders from any wholesale customer including Bidfood, Service Foods, Costco, Bunnings, Mitre10, Farro Fresh.   Automatically convert all your POs from all your foodservice customers including supermarkets, hotels, hospitals, petrol & convenience customers, plus any other customers who places order by email, PDF, or PO.  Watch the demo video to see how it works.

Wholesale admin holding your business back? Cody from Frankies Bakery was forced to turn away new customers because of the admin nightmare "I would turn people away just at the thought of setting up their account." Now with Upstock, Cody just clicks Approve and the customer can order right away. 📝 No more chasing invoices or managing paperwork 🏷️ You pick the price list & catalogue for the customer  💳 You decide if you want them to pay by card or invoice Learn more (and earn more) here  https://hubs.la/Q03brXg50

Is it a stretch to say that good trading relationships are essential for global peace and prosperity? Have you experienced better trading relationships using Upstock? If you are interested in better trading relationships, at Upstock we’re keen to help https://hubs.la/Q037Vg750

For FMCG brands, doing business with supermarkets requires serious leveling up. Learn how food & beverage suppliers do it the easy way with Upstock 🤹🏼♀️ Getting ranged in supermarkets like Woolworths, IGA and Foodstuffs is a major goal for most suppliers. When supermarkets start ordering, you need to handle those high volume orders without dropping the ball. 🥵 Most suppliers don’t have the systems to handle those levels of orders, so the supermarkets have no choice but to drop them. 🤩 Upstock is a low cost solution that puts you in the best position to easily sell into supermarkets with confidence, automating manual tasks so you can focus on growing your business. 🚀 Food and beverage brands of any size can now easily and affordably sell to the major supermarkets through Upstock. 💪🏽 This levels the playing field when competing against major multinational brands with mega-million dollar ERP systems and the teams to run them. Book a demo https://lnkd.in/gSgRmqRZ Learn more https://lnkd.in/gbqNgTDi

Check out news from Inside FMCG – the leading publication covering the FMCG industry in Australia – which explains how Upstock is transforming the industry. A few key points to share here: ✨ AI-assisted ordering is a major game changer for the FMCG industry Using AI, Upstock can instantly convert any type of order into a digital order – email, complex purchase order files, spreadsheets, even scraps of handwritten paper – meaning FMCG brands don’t have to force their buyers to change their ordering practices. 🛒 Hundreds of independent supermarkets use Upstock to keep their shelves well-stocked In addition to automating orders from major supermarkets like Woolworths, hundreds of local and regional grocers use Upstock to place orders with their FMCG suppliers. The platform means supermarket staff no longer have to walk the aisles with a pen and clipboard to take down stock inventory, put all the information into a spreadsheet in the back office and then phone or message suppliers with orders. Now, they just walk the aisles with Upstock on their phone and tap the products they need. Upstock automates order management across the supply chain for retailers and wholesalers. With a single click in Upstock, suppliers produce an invoice, packing slip, and shipping instructions for the warehouse staff. It even creates courier tickets and delivery runs. Read the full story... https://hubs.la/Q034cGX00

Wrapping up a super successful year with our Upstock team. Working remotely we love our face to face time! 🤝 Celebrating our milestones and hard work together in Wellington. Excited for what we can achieve together in 2025. #upstock #team #offsite

2024 was 𝒘𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒅. But overall in the end, it was a wonderful year. 🚀 Wonderful because Upstock hit several major targets and milestones, including doubling our growth year-on-year. Again. While reducing our burn rate over 30%. 😢 Weird because reducing our burn rate meant we had to say goodbye to a few of our highly talented, dedicated team – which was an extraordinarily hard decision to make. 🙌 Wonderful because those awesome and talented people didn’t have any issues landing great new roles. 😰 Weird because the NZ economy had a very rough year. Government austerity measures have taken a major toll, especially in Wellington. It forced several of our customers to close their doors, which is extremely upsetting. We know it’s been a very tough slog for many people and their businesses, not just in NZ but AU too, and around the world. 🏅 Wonderful because our NPS score is nearly 80%. Our customers are passionate and vocal about the value Upstock delivers. Our customers report – and our data shows – customers are able to fill orders 80% faster, massively cutting admin costs and getting paid faster. That’s a huge efficiency gain. When you add in the accuracy gains – reducing order error rates from 30% to near 0% – that eliminates an enormous amount of expensive mistakes. It all adds up to very significant cost reductions – which is why Upstock is so popular and continues to grow exponentially. 💨 Weird because our business and the entire food & beverage industry has faced compounding headwinds, year after year. For Upstock, it’s been nonstop headwinds ever since we launched. Covid in 2020. Supply chain disruptions in 2021. Omicron is 2022. Major weather events in 2023. Inflation and recession in 2024. 💵 Wonderful because, despite all those headwinds, many of our customers continue to generate a strong uptick in sales. Growth in sales that comes from existing customers ordering more products, more frequently, thanks to Upstock making it so easy to restock. In addition, many brands gained significant numbers of new customers by getting discovered in the Upstock marketplace. 🙃 Weird because we fully expect 2025 to bring more headwinds. 🎉 Wonderful because the Upstock platform helps customers overcome those headwinds. I wish everyone a wonderful 2025! And just remember: even when it gets weird, just know there’s something wonderful around the corner.

Check out what our talented product team at Upstock have been creating to help suppliers and their wholesale buyers If you want to know more please reach out adam@upstock.app 027 298 4564

Our AI-assisted ordering solution has been the fastest growing, most adopted feature we’ve ever launched. This is forever revolutionising the speed and efficiency of supply chain logistics. And it’s still very, very early days in our AI implementation and the adoption of this technology. Very exciting to see the impact this is already having and this is just the start.

Still receiving orders by email? Purchase orders? Hand-written notes? Are your customers too set in their ways? {{linkedin_mention(urn:li:organization:18011785|Upstock)}} is redefining how you get orders from your customers into your accounting or inventory systems with our latest feature… ✨ AI-assisted email orders ✨ Some of our customers have been using this for months, and the results they are reporting are incredible… a reduction in time spent processing email orders by 80% 🤯 Upstock can now read PDFs, plain text emails, even hand written notes! It’s perfect for purchase orders from companies like Bidfood, IGA, Farro, Mitre10 and more. This is AI at its best - finding products and quantities from your forwarded order, matching them to your exact products and quantities in Upstock, then automatically generating a digital order. It’s simple, but incredibly powerful. Watch the quick clip of {{linkedin_mention(urn:li:person:m-Khvv8qmO|Jonny)}} to see it in action. We’re super proud to be bringing a revolutionary feature like this to market. A huge thanks to all of our amazing customers already using this feature. We’ve just rolled this out to everyone, and the pick up has been amazing. It’s one of our fastest feature adoption rates so far, which tells us we’re addressing a seriously burning need. Our customers are spending less time and energy on admin - and they’re using it anywhere else! Reviews from a few of our incredible customers already using AI-assisted email orders… Kirsty from {{linkedin_mention(urn:li:organization:78827837|Kaipaki Dairies)}}, "It's hugely cut down my time manually inputting orders and limited any human error" Ben from Pōneke Bakery,  “A seamless solution that doesn’t require our customers to change their ordering process.” {{linkedin_mention(urn:li:person:VM8g9fLe9n|Tracey)}} from {{linkedin_mention(urn:li:organization:96907127|Rum and Que Ltd)}}, “Upstock has sped up processing time for orders and it’s given our staff more autonomy.” We’re continuing to remove friction in the wholesale food & beverage industries across Australia and New Zealand, and we’re just getting started. 🚀🚀🚀 Check out more about Upstock's AI-assisted email orders at the link in our comments.👇