Datalex’s building materials system tracks stock in the correct unit per material — bags, tonnes, lengths, loads — and flags when replacement cost has moved enough to warrant a price review, while managing credit accounts for contractors buying against a project timeline.
• Cement, Rebar & Aggregate Dealers
• Hardware & Building Material Suppliers
• Multi-Depot Materials Distributors
• Suppliers to Contractors & Developers
A 50kg bag of cement has moved from under ₦7,000 in 2023-24 to ₦12,000-15,000 in many Nigerian markets in 2026, driven by exchange-rate pressure, diesel costs, and logistics — a supplier still pricing off last month's cost is effectively subsidizing every bag sold. Generic inventory software also tracks everything as a flat "quantity," when a tonne of 12mm rebar contains roughly 74 lengths and cement is priced by the bag but often sold in bulk lots — a mismatch that makes stock counts and reorder points unreliable from day one.
Multi-Unit Stock Tracking — Stock tracked in the correct unit per material — bags, tonnes, individual lengths, or loads — instead of one generic quantity field.
Cost-Based Pricing Alerts — Flags when replacement cost has moved enough that your current selling price no longer covers it, so pricing decisions aren’t made on stale cost data.
Contractor & Project Credit Accounts — Running balances tied to a contractor or project rather than a single transaction, matching how construction credit actually works.
Multi-Depot/Yard Visibility — Stock position across multiple yards or warehouses, with transfer tracking between them.
Business Dashboard — Sales, margin, and outstanding contractor balances across your whole operation in one view.
Generic inventory software wasn’t built for a category where cost can move by thousands of naira in weeks, and where the same product is bought and sold in three different unit types depending on volume.
Datalex builds mixed-unit tracking and cost-movement pricing alerts in as the default, not a workaround you build yourself in a spreadsheet.
Bring a sample of your current inventory: Excel sheet, paper ledger, or existing software export
Your stock, records, and customer/credit data are imported
Covers day-to-day use at the point of sale, receiving desk
Typically 3-5 days for a single location; longer for multi-branch, or multi-warehouse setups
Yes — stock is tracked by the correct unit type per material rather than a single generic quantity field.
It flags when cost movement is significant enough to warrant a price review; you approve or set the updated price.
Yes — credit accounts carry a running balance across all deliveries tied to that contractor or project.
Yes — each location's stock is tracked individually with a consolidated view across all of them.
Book a free demo with a sample of your current inventory and see exactly how it works on your own data — not a generic walkthrough
