Braintree × AGR · for inventory-heavy SA businesses
The intelligence layer for your inventory, sitting on top of the ERP you already run. Right-size stock, forecast real demand, and turn the cash trapped on your shelves into capital you can grow with.
The problem, visualised
Most inventory businesses set one flat stock level per line and hope. Here is what that costs across a single year.
Green is real demand, violet is the AGR forecast, grey is a flat spreadsheet stock line.
The shift
Purchasing still runs on spreadsheets and min or max rules that never saw the promotion coming, missed the seasonal peak, and cannot tell a slow month from a dying line. So the money goes to the wrong stock, the best-sellers run dry, and the finance team writes off the rest. There is a better way to run it.
What you get
Every rand in slow stock is a rand you cannot invest. AGR right-sizes inventory, cuts carrying cost and write-offs, and brings the cash back. It is the number your CFO has been trying to find in a spreadsheet for years.
AGR forecasts demand by channel, product and location, factoring in seasonality, promotions and real variability. Less firefighting, higher service levels, fewer stockouts on the lines that matter.
AGR runs on top of the ERP you already have, Dynamics, GP, NAV, Sage or Syspro. No rip-and-replace. The efficiency it drives can help self-fund the move from a NAV, GP or legacy ERP to Business Central when you are ready.
The outcome
Not a warehouse full of cash you cannot use, and not an empty shelf when the order lands. AGR plans the difference, every line, every day.
How it works
AGR connects to the system you already run. ERP-agnostic, no rip-and-replace.
Forecasting models real demand by channel, product and location, past the spreadsheet guesswork.
Replenishment runs on the numbers. Your team works the exceptions, not every line.
Inventory right-sizes, carrying cost and write-offs fall, and the cash comes back to the business.
See it in the product
The live AGR view: real demand against your stock line, the overstock and the seasonal peaks called out, and the order it would place. This is the actual interface, running on top of the ERP you already have.
Live AGR planning view. Image supplied by AGR.
Proof
AGR is already live and working here in South Africa, at Matumi Fresh Group, a joint Braintree and AGR customer, and at The Pro Shop, an AGR customer.
Since implementing AGR, our purchasing process has genuinely transformed. The forecasting capability has been transformative in giving us confidence in those numbers, and the scheduled automated orders pushing straight back into our ERP have been a complete game changer. We are really glad our partners at Braintree recommended AGR. We could not be happier.
The full Matumi Fresh Group case study follows. Customer results shown are outcomes achieved by named AGR customers and are presented as evidence, not as a guaranteed result.
Who it is for
See exactly how much working capital is sitting in stock, and get a costed plan to bring it back.
Stop the stockouts on your best-sellers and cut the hours lost to manual reordering every week.
Add revenue without pouring more cash into stock, and build a business that holds up when demand swings.
Add it on top of the ERP you already run. Light integration, no rip-and-replace, nothing new for your team to own.
Book a working-capital review
Let Braintree and AGR show you exactly how much is trapped in your stock, and how to bring it back to work. It is a short, structured session built around your own numbers. No commitment.
Let’s grow.
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