You sit between the people who make materials and the people who need them. Tenkara runs the middle: the quotes, the freight, the documents, the follow-ups, so your team spends the day selling, not chasing.
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Built for the businesses that live on the transaction
Ingredient and raw material suppliers quoting all day, chasing docs, and moving product on thin margins.
Distributors managing hundreds of SKUs, dozens of principals, and customers who all want an answer today.
Sales teams whose pipeline dies in the gap between "send me a quote" and actually sending one.
Quote out orders 5 times faster
Speed is the whole game in distribution, and every quote waits on the same things: a current price, a freight number, a stock check, a doc the customer needs. Tenkara builds the quote the moment the request lands, with live pricing, landed freight, and documents attached, so the number goes back while the customer is still deciding, not after.
"We went from quoting in two days to quoting the same afternoon. Win rate followed." Sales director, ingredient distributor
Automate Your Documentation Processes
The SDS, the CoA, the spec sheet, the allergen statement, the origin declaration. Requested by email, dug out of a drive, sent one at a time, again next order. Tenkara keeps every document current at the material level and hands customers what they need without your team touching it. Chasing documents stops being half of someone's job.
"One person spent most of her week sending SDSs. That work just doesn't exist anymore." Operations manager, chemical supplier
Manage Freight With One Click
You move product every day, and every load means calling around, eating a surprise accessorial, or answering "where is it?" from a customer you already answered yesterday. Tenkara books at one fixed rate from a published card, tracks every load pickup to the dock, and lets your customers watch their own shipments, so the tracking hotline shuts down.
"Customers track their own orders now. Our inbox is unrecognizable." Owner, packaging distributor
Improve Cash Flow And Get Paid Faster
You extend net 30 to sell, your principals want payment on their schedule, and your working capital lives permanently in the middle. Tenkara lets you sell the receivable and collect now, extend your own payables through third-party financing, and offer customers funded terms that cost you nothing, paid on day one, with risk on the financing partner.
"We were the bank for forty customers. Now the receivables fund the same week we invoice." CFO, food ingredient distributor
Quotes take days. Documents get dug out by hand on every order. Freight is phone calls and surprises. Cash sits in everyone's terms but yours.
Quotes go out the same day, freight priced in. Documents fulfill themselves. Every load tracks itself, customer included. Receivables fund when you invoice.
Quote turnaround drops from days to hours. Pricing, freight, and documents are assembled on request, so the number goes back while the deal is still open.
Document requests stop consuming a headcount. Certs and specs stay current at the material level and manage themselves.
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