Ask Your ERP for Kerridge K8
Plain-English questions over K8’s own data, answered to the penny with a governed read-only query, every figure tied to the rows behind it, every question logged with a name.
Finance & reportingUpdated Oct 202620 ERPs
See it work on K8.
Click through the steps. Fictional data, in K8’s terms; the real thing runs on K8.
Which accounts are more than 90 days beyond their terms, by salesman?
Five accounts, $76,792.50 in total. Three belong to Rick Alder.
| Salesman | Customer | Beyond terms | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| R. Alder | Bayview Decks | 118 days | $31,240.15 |
| R. Alder | Oak Hill Builders | 104 days | $9,870.00 |
| R. Alder | Ferry St Renovations | 97 days | $12,402.35 |
| T. Nguyen | Shoreline Electric | 101 days | $12,980.00 |
| T. Nguyen | Granite Peak Builders | 95 days | $10,300.00 |
5 rows from K8’s open items, aged on each account’s terms · read at 6:02 am · query shown below
A governed, read-only query over the open items, aged on each account’s own terms. The rows come back with the answer.
The problem, as it happens in K8.
The number exists in K8. Getting it means knowing which screen, which report, which filter, or asking the one person who does and waiting until they’re free.
So people keep their own spreadsheets, and three versions of last month’s sales circulate on Monday.
How it works.
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Ask in English
Open accounts over ninety days by salesman. Drywall sales this month against last. What we paid a vendor in the third quarter.
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A governed, read-only query
Written against curated knowledge of K8’s tables and terms codes, checked by a governor: select only, single statement, row-capped.
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The answer, cited
The figure, the table behind it, and the query, so anyone can check it. Validated against K8’s own screens during setup.
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Export or automate
Excel or PDF in one click. Save the question as an automation and have it in your inbox every Monday.
How it connects to K8.
Lunica reads K8 through a read-only login to the K8 database: the customer account, open items, invoice history, purchase orders and receipts, the product record, whatever the question needs. Each query is written against curated knowledge of K8’s tables and terms codes, so an account on 30 days EOM ages from end of month, and runs as a single select capped at a row count. The model sees the question, the schema context and the rows behind the answer, never the whole database.
Nothing is written to K8 by Ask, and nothing is sent on its own. The governor allows one read-only select per question and refuses everything else. An export is a file a person downloads; a saved question goes only to the inbox of the people you named. If an answer leads to a change, a credit limit, a price, a count, that change is keyed by your team in K8, never by a query.
What a week looks like.
- The number comes from the system of record, not a spreadsheet.
- Every answer shows its work.
- Every question is logged with the user’s name.
- Monday’s report writes itself.
Questions
Can it change anything in K8?
No. Every query passes a governor that allows a single read-only select and nothing else.
Is it accurate?
Answers are validated against K8’s own screen values during setup, and every figure links to its rows so you can check.
Who can use it?
Anyone you give an account. Read-only accounts can ask; only named users can send or act.
Which K8 data can it see?
Whatever the read-only account is granted: the customer account, open items, sales history, purchasing, inventory. The scope is set at onboarding and can be narrowed per user.
Does it run on our server?
Yes. Lunica runs on one server inside your network, or beside KCS’s hosted K8, and every query runs there against a read-only login to the K8 database.
Does our data train anything?
No. The model sees the question and the schema context it needs, and nothing is used for training.
Does it need a server?
Lunica runs on one server inside your network, or beside KCS’s hosted K8, set up and maintained by Lunica. It reads Kerridge K8 through a read-only login to the K8 database. There is no inbound connection from outside your network.
What does Lunica read in K8?
The customer account, open items and terms, purchase orders and receipts, the product record, quotes and order history, as each workflow needs them. Read-only, and only the rows a task is about.
Can it post to K8?
Nothing lands in K8 without a person. What belongs in K8 goes back as a K8 import where one exists, or keyed by your team from what Lunica prepared.
What about our documents?
Invoice copies and scans keep living in K8’s document management. Lunica reads them when a workflow needs one and never writes to them.
The same workflow, on another ERP.
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