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Credit limit reviews for building-supply dealers.

Lunica checks every limit against what the account is doing today, so the review happens before the counter hits it.

CreditUpdated Oct 202620 ERPs

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Limits · checked overnight
Illustrative
CustomerLimitExposureAvg days to pay12-mo volumeFlag
Harbor Point Builders$25,000$31,840.5028$412,300Over limit
Pine Hollow Contractors$15,000$13,210.0061$96,400Slowing
Cedar & Stone Framing$50,000$22,106.0024$538,900Within
Westfield Masonry$10,000$9,980.0044$71,200Due review

Exposure against limit, pay history and growth, for every account.

1 / 4

The problem.

A limit is set the day the account opens, from the application and a gut feel, and then it sits. Three years on, a framer is running twice the volume, pays on Net 30 EOM without fail, and bumps the limit every month, so the counter calls the credit desk and the limit goes up on the phone. The customer file in your ERP says whatever was last typed into it.

The other direction nobody tracks. The account whose balance has crept to three times what it was, paying slower every quarter, still has the limit it got when it was small. The aging report shows the balance. It doesn’t show that the exposure has quietly outgrown the policy, and nobody reviews limits until something is already past due.

How it works.

  1. 1

    Exposure against limit, nightly

    Every account’s open balance, orders released but not yet invoiced where your ERP has them, and the limit on the customer file, read each night. Pay history and twelve months of volume sit beside it.

  2. 2

    A recommendation under your policy

    Raise, hold or lower, with the reason in your policy’s words: months on terms, days to pay, utilisation, growth. The numbers decide who gets reviewed; a model only writes the explanation.

  3. 3

    Your credit manager approves or holds

    The desk opens on accounts due a review, largest exposure first. Approve the new limit, change the figure, or hold and set a date to look again. Every decision is recorded with who and why.

  4. 4

    The new limit is keyed into your ERP

    An approved limit goes back as an import file where your ERP takes one, or keyed by your team from what Lunica prepared. Until a person keys it, your ERP keeps the old one, and the review stays open on the desk.

How it connects to your ERP.

Lunica reads the customer file, open items and sales history through its database or data warehouse, under an account that can only read, nightly: the limit as your ERP has it, the open balance, orders released but not yet invoiced where your ERP carries them, and twelve months of invoices and payments. Terms are read per account, so an account on Net 60 EOM is judged on Net 60 EOM, not on a flat thirty.

Nothing is written to your ERP by Lunica and nothing is sent on its own. An approved limit goes back as an import file where your ERP takes one, or keyed by your team from what Lunica prepared, and the review shows who keyed it and when. Lunica runs on one server inside your network, beside your ERP; the recommendation and the decision live there, not in your ERP.

What a week looks like.

  • Every account with exposure past its limit is on the desk by morning.
  • Accounts that have earned a higher limit come up before the counter calls.
  • Each recommendation says why, in your policy’s words.
  • Every limit change has a name, a date and a reason behind it.

Questions

Does Lunica change limits in your ERP?

No. It recommends. Your credit manager approves, and the new limit goes back as an import file where your ERP takes one, or keyed by your team from what Lunica prepared. Until then your ERP keeps the old one.

Where does the policy come from?

From you. Your credit policy is written down in plain English as a spec your admins edit, with history and revert. Each recommendation cites the lines it used.

What counts as exposure?

Open balance plus orders released and not yet invoiced where your ERP has them. The figures are read from your ERP each night and never stored.

Does it lower limits too?

It can recommend one. Lowering is a decision for a person, and nothing changes on the customer file until someone keys it.

Can we exclude house accounts?

Yes, by rule. House accounts, cash accounts and anything you name are left alone.

How often is an account reviewed?

Exposure is checked nightly. A full review comes up on the schedule your policy sets, when exposure crosses the limit, or when a person asks for one.

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