Live case study · Aziz Saif · azizsaif.com

From Focus ERP keystrokes
to a self-running retail store.

A real multi-outlet retailer ran 17 manual procedures every day inside Focus ERP — product entry, goods receipt, pricing, reporting, backups, sync. This is the screen-by-screen simulation of that work, and the AI prompt that automates all of it.

17
Manual procedures mapped
~12 hrs
Daily manual effort
90%+
Time removed with AI
1
Prompt to regenerate it all
Live, screen-by-screen

The Focus ERP simulator

Pick any of the 17 procedures. Watch the exact Focus screen fill in, field by field, the way the store team does it by hand — every single day.

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A day in the store

The manual daily routine

This is the "today workflow" the operations team runs from open to close — the rhythm that AI is built to replace.

The leap

Manual Focus vs AI automation

🔴 Manual, today ~12 hrs/day

  • ▸ Re-key every product, barcode and rate from supplier sheets into Focus.
  • ▸ Type GRNs line by line; compute Gross = Rate × Qty by hand.
  • ▸ Open each report, filter by outlet, export, copy values into Excel.
  • ▸ Remember the daily backup. Remember the sync. Every day.
  • ▸ Errors hide for weeks — bank, statement and cheque entries drift apart.

🟢 With AI ~1 hr/day, supervised

  • ▸ Drop the shipment folder; AI builds Product, SPB and GRN records validated.
  • ▸ AI emits a Transaction-Import file — bulk load instead of typing.
  • ▸ Reports export and summarise themselves into a one-paragraph digest.
  • ▸ Backup + sync run unattended on a schedule, with a verify check.
  • ▸ Price changes still pause for human RM/AM approval — a safe gate.
Regenerate it with one prompt

The master AI prompt

Paste this into any capable AI agent with a supplier shipment folder. It rebuilds the entire workflow — the 17 procedures, the daily runbook, and the automation layer.

1 · Role

Casts the AI as a Retail ERP Automation Engineer that preserves Focus field names exactly and never invents quantities or prices.

2 · Task

From the shipment folder, build Product master, SPB and GRN; validate barcodes & Gross; emit a ready-to-import Excel.

3 · Automation

Designs the unattended daily runbook (sync → sales → GRN → reports → backup) with a human approval gate on pricing.

📄 Read the full master prompt

Focus → Automation

The retail AI journey, in five moves

① Capture

17 real SOPs reverse-engineered into a structured map of every screen, field and click.

② Simulate

This live simulator proves the workflow end to end — no Focus licence required to see it.

③ Templatise

Each procedure becomes an input/output schema an AI can read and write reliably.

④ Automate

An agent replays the clicks: import files, export reports, run backups, sync stores.

⑤ Supervise

Humans keep the approval gates that matter — pricing, markdowns, reconciliation.

The result

A store that mostly runs itself, with a daily digest instead of a 12-hour keyboard marathon.