One database for your entire operation -- inventory, accounting, compliance, and customer management with foreign keys between every table. Nothing to reconcile. Nothing to drift. Currently deployed in pharmaceutical distribution, built to configure for any vertical.
The ERP that replaces five sub-systems with one schema
FORGE is a modern ERP platform for businesses that can't afford a six-month Epicor implementation and a five-day month-end close. It replaces the sub-systems most companies stitch together -- order entry, AR/AP, general ledger, inventory management, and contract pricing -- with one schema. Vertically configurable for any industry.
When a customer order ships, the same database transaction writes the invoice, the journal entry, and the inventory movement. Industry-specific compliance (like pharmaceutical DSCSA chain of custody) is built into the schema, not bolted on. There is no eventual consistency. There is no overnight batch. There is one source of truth.
FDA DSCSA Deadline: November 2026. Pharmaceutical distributors must achieve full serialization compliance. FORGE has DSCSA built into the schema, not bolted on -- lot + serial tracking, T2 chain-of-custody, T3 verification documents, FDA-discoverable audit trail, sub-second lot-trace. Auto-polls the FDA recall API every hour.
Core Capabilities
Everything your business needs. Nothing it doesn't.
DSCSA Compliance -- Native Schema
Lot + serial tracking, T2 chain-of-custody, T3 verification documents, FDA-discoverable audit trail. Auto-polls FDA recall API every hour, quarantines affected inventory in the same transaction that records the recall. Generates the FDA-response PDF on demand.
Double-Entry GL with Auto-Posting
46-account pharma-distribution chart pre-seeded. Every invoice, payment, credit memo, vendor bill, recall write-off, and chargeback receipt posts a balanced journal entry via Postgres triggers -- not application code. Period-close enforced by the database.
FIFO Inventory + Expiry-First Picking
Stock tracked by product x location x lot. FIFO cost layers consumed oldest-first. Expiry-first pick algorithm prevents short-dated product going stale. Recall write-offs reduce inventory at actual FIFO cost, not estimate.
GPO Contracts + Chargeback Automation
Vizient, Premier, HealthTrust, Provista, Intalere, MedAssets pre-loaded. Contract pricing per NDC. Chargeback claims aggregate from invoice lines. Aging view shows submitted claims by days since submission -- visibility distributors lose to Excel today.
Real-Time AR Aging
Customer-level rollup plus invoice-level detail. Bucketed Current / 0-30 / 31-60 / 61-90 / 90+. One-click email to AP contact. Credit-limit and on-hold flags surface immediately -- not at month-end.
Computed Columns That Cannot Drift
invoice.amount_outstanding is total minus amount_paid computed by Postgres on every read. Same pattern on payments, credit memos, AP invoices, and chargeback claims. Application code cannot race. Crashed processes cannot leave the database wrong.
Role-Based Access Control
Four pre-seeded roles (admin, sales rep, read-only, auditor) with a 15-permission catalogue. Schema designed for SOC 2 audit trail expansion without migration churn.
EDI-Ready
API surface defined for SPS Commerce or TrueCommerce integration using EDI 850/855/856/810/820. No X12 parsing in core code -- translator vendor handles wire format, FORGE consumes structured JSON.
Reference Implementation -- Justice Ophthalmics
Real numbers from a live production database.
Metric
Value
Trial balance
$375,737 -- both sides reconciled to the cent
Invoices auto-posted to GL
193 (from 180-day production backfill)
Accounts receivable tracked
$175,737 across 148 customers
AR aging compute time
482ms across 420+ active customer records
Customer health scoring
700 demo customers scored in 846ms
FDA recall auto-quarantine
D-0501-2026 (iVIZIA Eye Drops) matched live and quarantined in same transaction
Migrations applied
8 in single overnight build session
Smoke tests
9 running against live infrastructure, all passing
Lot-trace query time
Sub-second (FDA gives competitors 4 business days)
Why FORGE Beats Epicor and NetSuite
One transaction. No divergence possible.
In Epicor, a customer payment touches AR, bank reconciliation, GL, and the customer master -- four separate sub-ledgers. In FORGE, that payment writes one row to payments, one row to payment_applications, one row to journal_entries, and two rows to journal_lines -- in one database transaction, atomic, with foreign keys between every table.
Capability
Epicor
NetSuite
QuickBooks
FORGE
DSCSA compliance
Paid add-on
Custom build
Not supported
Native schema
Sub-second lot-trace
Hours to days
Hours
Not supported
Postgres view
FDA recall auto-quarantine
Manual
Manual
Manual
Triggered, atomic
GL auto-posting from operations
Application code
Application code
Application code
Database triggers
Computed AR/AP balances
App-updated, can drift
App-updated, can drift
App-updated
GENERATED columns
GPO chargeback automation
Painful add-on
Custom
Not supported
First-class module
Total implementation cost
$200K-$500K
$150K-$400K
$20K+ add-ons
Configuration, not implementation
Who It's For
Any business that's outgrown its ERP
Small to mid-market businesses running Epicor, SAP, NetSuite, or stitched-together legacy systems and spending too much on implementation, maintenance, and month-end reconciliation. Whether you're in distribution, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, or services -- FORGE configures to your vertical with industry-specific compliance, workflows, and reporting built in.
Flagship vertical: Pharmaceutical distribution. The reference implementation runs on Justice Ophthalmics, a specialty distributor of ophthalmic supplies and diagnostic equipment with 1,800+ customer records in the live production database. DSCSA-native compliance, sub-second lot-trace, GPO chargeback automation -- all proven on real data. All performance numbers cited are measured against this production environment.
Demo
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See FORGE running on a live production database -- real transactions, real compliance, real results. We'll walk through your vertical and show how FORGE configures to your business.