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What happens after an mtPro order is transmitted? Preparing MarketTime orders for ERP fulfillment

Order Capture Isn’t the Hard Part Anymore

For most wholesale brands using MarketTime today, writing and submitting orders is no longer the time – consuming process it once was.

Sales teams can walk into a buyer meeting with an iPad, pull up updated product catalogs, create a purchase order instantly and transmit it from mtPro before leaving the store. 

Retailers can browse branded B2B storefronts and place orders at their convenience without waiting on a rep’s visit.

In many ways, MarketTime has solved one of the biggest problems wholesale businesses used to face – capturing demand efficiently.

But once those mtPro orders are transmitted, a different kind of work begins internally.

Because while your sales team may have moved on to the next appointment, your operations, finance or warehouse teams now have to prepare that incoming order inside your ERP system before it can move toward fulfillment.

And this is where many growing MarketTime sellers begin to notice friction in their backend workflows.

How MarketTime changed wholesale sales workflows

MarketTime is designed to help manufacturers, brands and sales agencies digitize their selling process.

Using tools like mtPro and B2B ordering portals, teams can :

  • Write and submit orders from the field
  • Share item catalogs across agencies
  • Manage retailer relationships
  • Track commissions
  • Enable retailers to place orders independently
  • Transmit purchase orders electronically

This creates a consistent and structured way to capture customer demand across different sales channels.

However, once an order is transmitted, it doesn’t automatically become ready for fulfillment inside your organization.

Instead, it typically needs to be retrieved through exports, batch delivery, accounting software imports, or API-based integrations before your internal systems can begin processing it.

Which means transmitted orders often arrive as external data that must be aligned with existing ERP records before execution can begin.

The internal work that starts after mtPro transmission

Every transmitted MarketTime order represents an incoming commitment that needs to be prepared operationally before any warehouse activity or invoicing takes place.

Internally, this may involve :

👉Matching the retailer to an existing customer record inside ERP
👉Verifying billing and delivery locations
👉Ensuring the correct ship-to address is selected
👉Checking that the ordered items exist within the ERP catalog
👉Confirming payment terms
👉 Assigning the order to the appropriate sales team
👉 Reviewing the purchase order to prevent duplication

While these steps are essential for maintaining order accuracy, they are often carried out manually by internal teams – particularly when orders are retrieved using CSV exports or batch delivery methods.

As order volume increases, the amount of time spent preparing transmitted MarketTime orders inside ERP systems begins to grow significantly.

Why manual ERP preparation slows down growing MarketTime sellers

Many MarketTime sellers initially rely on exporting transmitted purchase orders into their ERP or accounting platforms using formatted files.

While this approach works during early growth stages, businesses often encounter operational challenges such as :

  • Retailers being created multiple times inside ERP
  • Delivery addresses not aligning with internal customer hierarchies
  • Product records needing to be created before order entry
  • Payment terms not carrying over consistently
  • Duplicate purchase orders being imported unknowingly

Over time, these inconsistencies begin to affect downstream processes such as inventory planning, procurement decisions, invoicing timelines and fulfillment scheduling.

Rather than accelerating operations, manual preparation of transmitted MarketTime orders may begin to introduce delays that impact customer delivery commitments.

Preparing MarketTime orders for fulfillment inside ERP systems

Before an order can move into fulfillment workflows inside ERP systems, it must first be prepared in a way that aligns with internal operational data.

This includes ensuring that :

  • Customer records are correctly mapped
  • Billing and shipping addresses are organized hierarchically 
  • Ordered items correspond to ERP catalog entries
  • Payment terms are applied accurately
  • Sales ownership is assigned internally
  • Duplicate purchase orders are detected and prevented

Once these elements are aligned, ERP-driven workflows such as inventory allocation, invoicing, procurement planning and dispatch scheduling can proceed with greater accuracy.

Automating the preparation of transmitted MarketTime orders inside ERP allows internal teams to maintain consistency across customer, product and financial data without manual intervention.

When do MarketTime sellers actually need ERP integration?

As wholesale brands grow, they often find themselves managing :

  1. Multiple sales representatives or agencies
  2. Retailers with numerous delivery locations
  3. Expanding product catalogs
  4. Higher order volumes across regions

At this stage, simply capturing orders digitally is no longer sufficient to maintain operational efficiency.

ERP systems become essential for :

  • Tracking inventory across warehouses
  • Maintaining centralized financial reporting
  • Managing customer hierarchies
  • Planning procurement cycles
  • Coordinating fulfillment processes

Connecting MarketTime with ERP platforms allows transmitted orders to move into backend workflows aligned with these operational requirements.

Connecting MarketTime with Odoo for operational continuity

Integrating MarketTime with ERP systems like Odoo enables transmitted purchase orders to be prepared internally without requiring manual data entry.

Incoming orders can be aligned with –

  • Existing customer records
  • Address hierarchies
  • Product catalogs
  • Payment terms
  • Internal sales teams

Once prepared inside ERP as ready-to-review quotations, operations teams can initiate fulfillment workflows more efficiently.

This allows MarketTime to continue supporting order capture, while ERP systems handle execution-related processes within the organization.

Aligning sales with execution using Pragmatic Techsoft

MarketTime has significantly improved how wholesale sellers capture demand through mtPro and B2B ordering portals.

However, preparing transmitted purchase orders for fulfillment remains an important internal step for maintaining operational consistency as businesses grow.

Pragmatic Techsoft has developed the MarketTime Integration for Odoo to support this transition by enabling incoming MarketTime orders to be prepared inside ERP environments before fulfillment workflows begin.

By connecting MarketTime with Odoo, wholesale brands can align their sales capture processes with backend execution systems responsible for inventory planning, financial reporting and dispatch scheduling.

If your internal teams are currently preparing transmitted MarketTime orders manually inside ERP platforms, it may be worth exploring how integration can streamline this process.

You can connect with our team to learn more or schedule a demo to understand how this integration supports wholesale order execution.

FAQs

1) Do MarketTime orders automatically move into ERP systems?

MarketTime allows transmitted orders to be retrieved electronically, but ERP preparation typically requires integration.

2) Why do wholesale brands integrate MarketTime with ERP platforms?

To align transmitted orders with internal customer records, product catalogs, and financial workflows.

3) Does ERP integration replace mtPro functionality?

No, it complements mtPro by preparing transmitted orders for backend execution.

4) Can ERP integration help reduce duplicate customer records?

Yes, aligning incoming orders with existing ERP data helps maintain consistency.

5) When should MarketTime sellers consider ERP integration?

As order volume increases and manual preparation begins affecting fulfillment timelines.

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