TriLedger: Real‑Time ERP Inventory Reconciliation Service
10/10
Demand Score
Inventory inaccuracy causes stockouts, over‑purchasing, and blocks financial close; every day of mismatch directly burns cash.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$4k-18k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
8 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A sidecar SaaS that builds a shadow inventory ledger by continuously ingesting events from ERP, WMS, POS/e‑commerce, 3PL, RFID/IoT, and vendor ASNs via CDC + APIs. It triangulates quantities by SKU/lo
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 2 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- SAP Inventory Management & WM
- Oracle Cloud SCM inventory controls
- Manhattan WMOS
- Blue Yonder WMS
- SkuVault
- Zebra MotionWorks RFID
- Cycle counting point solutions
Must-Have Features for MVP
Agent‑based CDC and API connectors for major ERPs/WMS/3PLs
Shadow inventory ledger at SKU/lot/serial/bin granularity
Rules + ML anomaly classification with confidence scores
Auto‑resolution playbooks with digital approvals and full audit
Exception workbench with dollar impact and stockout risk scoring
Daily inventory trial balance and reconciliation SLA tracking
UoM/pack‑size normalization and master‑data sanity checks
What‑if simulation before posting corrections
Role‑based tasks and guided recounts
Write‑back safety (idempotency, rollback, segregation of duties)
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Messy UoM and pack‑size conversions across systems
- Latency and data gaps in EDI/ASN feeds
- ERP write‑back governance and approvals
- Warehouse process deviations (e.g., blind receipts)
- Multi‑entity consolidation complexities
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- >99.5% inventory accuracy within 30 days
- Time‑to‑first reconciliation <7 days
- 50–80% reduction in manual recount tickets
- Measured reduction in stockouts and safety stock
- Zero disruption to live operations during deployment
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This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.