Vendara is supply chain, freight and MRP software for Australian manufacturers, wholesalers and importers. Purchasing, stock, shipments, customs paperwork, delivery dockets, the shop floor and staff training run on one live system, so every team works from the same numbers.
MRP, kanban, shop-floor lean tools and job costing that reflects your real overheads.
Purchase orders, shipment grouping, landed cost and customs paperwork in one place.
Commercial invoices, packing lists, delivery dockets and tax invoices with your own branding.
Lean and leadership courses with certificates, plus 37 free tools for your team.
These quietly cost Australian manufacturers, wholesalers and importers the most. Each one maps to a part of Vendara that is live today.
Reorder points live in someone's head or an old spreadsheet.
Vendara: item master with min/max, safety stock, lead time and MOQ, MRP shortages and 2-bin kanban that drafts the next PO.
MRP & OperationsYou pay minimum charges, origin fees and clearance again and again, and nobody can say what was saved.
Vendara: group shipments into one booking, split the cost, and record baseline vs actual savings.
Freight & CustomsEach shipment's paperwork is rebuilt by hand, HS codes are guessed, and old versions can't be found.
Vendara: commercial invoice, packing list and SLI with an HS code picker, pre-send checks and a stored, locked final copy.
Trade DocumentsShipping on behalf of a customer means hiding your prices and retyping the same lines into an invoice.
Vendara: blind-ship delivery dockets, quantity supplied carried straight into a GST tax invoice.
Delivery DocketsYou chase updates by email and discover the delay when the line stops.
Vendara: supplier on-time rate and spend, shipment notices with tracking and ETA, and a portal customers check themselves.
Supply Chain PortalOverheads aren't spread across real productive hours, so some jobs are quoted at a loss.
Vendara: workshop burden rate worked out for you, full BOM costing and a branded quote.
Cost EstimatorThe same shortages come up in every meeting and actions get lost at shift change.
Vendara: 5S audits, red tags, A3 problem solving, daily meetings with escalation and shift handover.
Lean MFG PortalPeople attend a session, nothing changes on the floor, and nobody can prove who learned what.
Vendara: courses with quizzes, real workplace tasks and a verifiable completion certificate.
Lean & Leadership AcademyA goods receipt updates stock, shortages, the customer's tracker, landed cost and the shipment's paperwork at the same time. Switch on only the modules you need.
Purchasing, inventory, freight and paperwork
Give customers a live view of their orders instead of answering "where's my order?" emails.
Run purchasing and inventory from real demand, lead times and stock on hand.
Track import and local shipments against the orders they carry, and measure every saving.
Commercial invoices, packing lists and shipper's letters of instruction, stored and searchable.
Delivery dockets and GST tax invoices from the same lines, with no retyping.
Ask plain-language questions about your operation inside Vendara.
The shop floor and the true cost of a job
A production system built from hands-on lean implementation: the daily tools that make improvement stick.
Know what a job really costs before you quote it, including the overheads most quotes forget.
Training your people, with proof of completion
28 modules from 5S and standard work to flow, pull, TPM and value stream mapping.
Leading with Emotional Intelligence: 9 modules and a final assessment, about 11 hours.
37 free calculators, checklists, templates and diagrams after a quick email sign-up.
Freight is often the biggest cost nobody measures. Vendara tracks import and local shipments against the orders they carry, groups them into shared bookings, and shows what each one saved.
Import or local, any mode. Supplier, forwarder, origin, Incoterm, tracking, ship date and ETA, with chargeable weight calculated for you.
Put several shipments into one booking and the freight cost is split between them, so you see the real landed cost of each order.
Record what a shipment would have cost against what you paid. Savings roll up by month and year to date.
Fuel surcharge, origin charges, clearance, duty and GST, biosecurity and destination charges against each shipment.
Move the sliders to match your own shipments. This is an illustration, not a quote. In Vendara the real figures come from your own bookings.
Most businesses still build commercial invoices in Excel or Word, with no record of what was sent. Vendara creates them with your logo and numbering, checks them before they go, and keeps every version.
The same order moves through every stage without being re-typed into another system.
A quote, sales history or a kanban signal shows what's needed.
A purchase order is raised, approved and sent.
Shipments are grouped and tracked, with their trade documents.
Stock, average cost and the stock ledger update at once.
A delivery docket goes out and becomes the tax invoice.
MRP, kanban and lean tools flag what to fix and order next.
Access is set per company. Start with one module, add others as add-ons, or take a pack.
For a business with one pressing problem, such as export paperwork or dockets.
For manufacturers who want planning, the shop floor and costing together.
For teams that want lean or leadership skills with proof of completion.
Platform plans are in early access for selected businesses. We'll recommend the smallest set of modules that solves your problem.
Each company sees only its own orders, stock and documents, enforced on the server, not just hidden on screen.
Optional authenticator-app codes, login lockout after repeated failures, and HTTPS across the whole site.
Invite your team by email. Links are single-use and expire after 48 hours; people set their own password.
Company administrators choose which modules each person can use, within the company's plan and seat limit.
Import from Excel and export back out any time. No lock-in.
Invoices, packing lists, dockets, quotes and lean documents carry your logo and details.
Calculators, checklists, templates and diagrams you can use today, free with a verified email. Use them online or download them.
OEE, takt time, Yamazumi line balancing, heijunka levelling and a time study stopwatch.
A3, 5 Whys and fishbone, FMEA, Pareto, control charts and Cpk.
5S audit, red tag log, gemba walk, safety walk, standard work and one point lessons.
Kanban sizing, EOQ and reorder point, ABC analysis, landed cost, supplier scorecards and OTIF.
Kaizen reports, SMED changeovers, waste logs, impact and effort ranking, and payback and ROI.
16 original diagrams: TPS house, 5S, 8 wastes, PDCA, kanban loop, VSM symbols and more.
Practical courses with quizzes, workplace activities and a verifiable completion certificate. Learners log in with their own email and see only their training.
A lean and TPM course built for the shop floor, from 5S and standard work to flow, pull and value stream mapping.
Leading with Emotional Intelligence: a practical course for leaders on the floor, in warehouses and on sites, and in offices.
Lean Academy pricing Ask about Leadership Academy
Vendara completion certificates are not nationally accredited qualifications.
One payment, 12 months of access for every person in your package. The more people you train, the less each one costs.
The Lean Library is free for everyone: calculators, checklists and templates you can use online or download after a quick sign-up.
Purchasing, inventory, kanban, freight and cost estimating are in early access for selected manufacturers. Request early access and we will talk you through the options.
Prices are in Australian dollars and exclude GST. Each package is a one-off payment for 12 months of access for the stated number of people. Lean Academy is a practical training program; its certificate is a Vendara completion certificate and is not a nationally accredited qualification.
Vendara is a web-based platform for Australian manufacturers, wholesalers and importers. It covers purchase orders, inventory, MRP and kanban, freight and customs, commercial invoices and packing lists, delivery dockets and tax invoices, lean manufacturing tools, cost estimating and staff training, all on one shared set of data.
Yes. Access is set per company, so you can start with a single module such as Trade Documents, Delivery Dockets or Freight and add others later. Manufacturers can add the Manufacturing pack, which groups MRP, the Lean MFG Portal, the Cost Estimator and the AI Assistant.
Commercial invoices, packing lists and shipper's letters of instruction, with an HS 2022 six-digit code picker, Incoterms 2020, air, sea, road, rail and post modes, pre-send checks and PDF, Word and Excel export. Delivery dockets and GST tax invoices are in the Delivery Dockets module.
Every request is checked on the server against the logged-in user's company, so each company sees only its own orders, stock and documents. Logins can use two-step authentication, invitations are single-use links that expire after 48 hours, and the whole site runs over HTTPS.
Yes. The Vendara Lean Library has 37 free lean, quality and supply chain tools, including OEE, takt time, kanban sizing, EOQ, A3 and 5S templates, available after a free sign-up with a verified email.
Lean Academy starts at A$149 per person for 12 months of access, with team packages for 10, 25 and 50 employees and custom quotes above 50. Prices exclude GST. See all packages.
Yes. Items, sales history and trade-document product libraries can be imported from Excel and exported back out at any time.
The AI Assistant is optional and switched off for new companies by default. An administrator can switch it on for a company and set a daily question limit.
We'll walk you through the modules that fit your business, using your own purchase orders, suppliers, shipments and documents.